Essays on Holocaust

Overview Many tried or attempted to flee the holocaust but many could not make it. Fleeing the holocaust was never easy. The Fleeing or escapes on the Kindertransport were started in 1939. Right when the Kindertransports began to pick up the kids before the Holocaust….

Despite the controversies and critiques elicited by Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds and the Schindler’s list, both films have been described as masterpieces by many movie analysts in regard to their approach in addressing the atrocities committed in the Holocaust of the early 1940’s. Both films…

When we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat history. The holocaust was such a horrible event, and if it was directly caused by one nation, it involved the complicity of several others, and a lot of deaths could have been prevented by…

Between 1941 and 1945, European Jews were taken from their homes and treated like animals just because of their religion. The Germans took Jews from all social classes and of all different ages. They even took children. During the Holocaust, children were the most mistreated…

Elie Wiesel, the Romanian born Jewish writer, grew up in Sighetu, Romania during the height of World War II. He became a brilliant writer who captured the egregious experience of the rise of the Nazi Socialist Party, and the attempt to exterminate the Jewish race,…

The Holocaust was a time where people were dropping like flies. It was a time period where people were hunted down like animals and killed in cold blood. Adolf Hitler was an anti-Semitic Nazi leader who believed that Jews were an inferior race, an “alien…

 The holocaust was the state sponsored genocide of the Jews by the Nazi regime which began in the early 1930’s and ended with Allied liberation at the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. This was a time of despair and terror for…

The movie “Son of Saul” revolves around a man named Ausländer Saul who came from the city Ungvár in Hungary and lives his life in the camp of Auschwitz which reveals some of the most devastating moments that took place during an atrocity of WWII….

Anne Frank was a young Holocaust survivor who provided a vivid glimpse into what life was like living in Nazi occupied Holland through her diary. Frank’s diary is a story of faith, hope and love in the face of hate. Throughout her short lived life…

During the holocaust there were 40,000 concentration camps, prisons and facialies that held Jews and other Non- Aryan peoples.The book Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel about his times during the holocaust. He starts with the beginning of war, the denial all through traveling…

When on the topic of representations of the Holocaust, two films come to mind, those being Roman Polanski’s film The Pianist and Quentin Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds. Though these films do not appear to have anything in common other than the fact that they are…

In “Night,’’ Elie Wiesel fights with his faith through the killing process of the Jews, established by the Nazis. Wiesel begins losing belief in God. Multiple times in the night Wiesel tells quotes that show his rage and dissatisfaction with what he sees daily at…

Introduction Viktor Frankl’s, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” isn’t just about the Holocaust but about how his traumatic experiences and suffering led to his widely shared message about his philosophy; that there is meaning in everything, especially suffering. I believe Frank’s intent wasn’t just to talk…

History of any sort can be interpreted differently by anyone. People can view sources as bias, illegitimate or hard proof that something did or didn’t happen because of these factors people can choose to believe a variety of different things or interpret it in their…

During World War II, there was the massive genocide in Germany, known as the Holocaust. After the war, Nazi German soldiers defended themselves, saying that they were “just obeying orders” of higher authority (Hitler). The purpose of Stanley Milgram’s experiment was to observe the common…