To add to this, his father dies later in the book. ... Not only does his family die, but friends from his home and relatives also die. ... One of the ways in which Elie is altered is how he views life. He sees more deaths in a few years than we"ll witness in a lifetime. ... Elie's father dies toward the end of the Holocaust. ...
What I wanted to teach them was how Christ had died to guarantee them that right. ... When I read about the Holocaust I couldn't help but think how Christ had died for all those people "Jews and Germans alike. ... They ignored Christ's teachings, and as a result, millions of people died for nothing. ... We were sitting around talking, and this guy from England who knows how to speak my language was talking nasty about my language and how the Tongan people were. ... I now have a better understanding that no matter where we live, we are all affected by the choices of others "...
CHRONICLER AND MEDIA We know of Oskar Schindler through many different types of the media. We know of him through the television, newspapers, books, and by word of mouth through the Jewish people he had saved. ... One can also see how Schindler was a hero in is character traits. ... One can see how Oskar Schindler meets this characteristic in several ways. ... I do not know he died how he died exactly but it is basically from natural causes. ...
The child had suffered there with his brothers starring at him as Jesus with his brothers most of the apostles and his followers watching him suffer and finally die. ... This hanging was an example of exactly how evil of the German army was and how Hitler singled out the Jewish people and created a revolution of hatred to a certain group of people. ... From there on the Germans didn't care who they killed, they could at least put the young child quickly out of his misery with a gun but the Germans let him suffer trying his best to cling on to life but he eventually died. ... This book and...
People were dying on the train Rita was on. ... He died the day before the rations came. ... It shows how hatred can become an obsession. ... The people who died could have done something amazing. We should continue to learn about the Holocaust so we don't forget about the tragic event that happened and the millions of people we lost....
A very controversial and heavily documented topic of debate is the question: did six million Jewish people really die in the holocaust? ... "People were treated in such an inhumane manner, it is unimaginable the hardship we faced. There were times when we wondered whether we would ever be happy again, or whether Auschwitz, scene of so much death, was immortal and would live in our minds until we, too, died - and then live on to haunt those who understood"... ... In his book he describe how he hoped many Jews would leave the country voluntarily and he planned his return to politics and gain pow...
We also wouldn't know what causes sterilization. Because we learned what causes sterilization from the Nazis we are looking for ways to cure people. We wouldn't know how long a person can stay in freezing water before they go into hypothermia. ... It was wrong that so many people had to die because of these experiments. ... We would have never learned how to create cures and vaccines for infectious diseases. 2 Even though these experiments were completely wrong on so many levels they have helped with diseases. ...
Is it possible that outward appearance or " looks" are what we judge people by? The evolved, apparently modern and superior Western world is actually backward and primitive; how could intellectual, profound, clever people discriminate and categorize others by beliefs, physical aspects, nationalities or sex Remember the holocaust. Take a moment to reflect on how many people were killed, a whole society demolished, and who authorized it Who tried to stop it How many people rebelled How many had the guts to risk their own lives in order to save a population Very few. ... After the tragedy o...
The father tells his son the story of how he survived the Holocaust. ... Vladek explains "To die, it's easy But you have to struggle for life! Until the last moment we must struggle together" (Spiegelman 124). ... "So we worked day after day, we survived. ... His actions show just how tenacious he really is. ...
That's exactly how it was then and that's exactly how it is now. ... As the tour began we were lead down a big spiral path leading downwards, and I couldn't help relating it to when the Jews went down into the pits and were shot. Then they took us to this place where we had to go through doors that automatically opened and closed and I started freaking myself out and thinking that I was going to die, if there is reincarnation I think I was living one of my past lives or something. When we went through these doors they handed us a card, a card that would tell us...
How could one measure the significance of six million lives, it would be impossible to. The intentional annihilation of six million people has affected the world in ways that we will never know, maybe the person who could have discovered the cure for Cancer or AIDS died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. ... I believe that this was one of the worst times in history, and if we don't learn from it, we will be doomed to repeat it. ...
How do the opening sequences prepare the audience for these? ... Through the movie we see Spielberg explore his character and his motivation. From the opening scene we see many of these major themes presented to the audience. ... There is a small girl who we see wearing a red coat who takes Schindler's attention. ... Lists are used throughout the film to name those who are sent to the concentration camps, to die, and ironically at the end it is a list which is used to show those who are sent to Schindler's camp , those few Jews who managed to survive the holocaust . ...
First and foremost, we must address the fallacies concerning the world's knowledge of what was happening. ... First and foremost, we must address the fallacies concerning the world's knowledge of what was happening. ... They did not do anything, thereby allowing more Jews to die. ... In fact, a British official is quoted as saying, "What are we going to do with 100,000 Jewish children?" ... Imagine what there eyes saw, what there souls felt, and how there hearts burned. ...
We, the Youth of the Thousand year Reich, are the building blocks of future society. ... So we young people have a very hard time of it. ... He told me all he knew about Hitler and how he came to power. ... Either we respect the Nazis, or we die trying not to. ... We do not deserve anything like what we are being put through. ...
We didn't care. ... We were afraid to go. We were afraid to loose our home, our lives. It was all we had, and we couldn't bear to leave it behind" (Miller 68). ... However cruel the punishment of these victims, there seems great nobility in the fact that their faith never died. ...
First and foremost, we must address the misconception concerning the world's knowledge of what was happening. ... They did not do anything, thereby allowing more Jews to die. ... In fact, a British official is quoted as saying, "What are we going to do with 100,000 Jewish children?" ... This information makes it no longer possible to claim that the world could do nothing to save the eleven million people who died, due to ignorance of what was happening. ... Imagine what there eyes saw, what there souls felt, and how there hearts burned. ...
Life among the big cities of Europe was much different then we know them as today. ... Columbus seized and kidnapped these Indian men, women, and children, similar to how the Nazi's did to the Jew's during the holocaust. ... "So many Indians died that they could not be counted," wrote Gonalo Fernandez de Ociendo. ... How many more times in history must this happen for us not to make the same mistake again?...
Eliezer went from being a strong believer in His God to wondering how a God of love could let such things happen. ... The book reveals little by little his dying religion. ... It's something that we should hold on to and take comfort in when times get rough. ... Through this book and in Eliezer's loss of faith, we see a young boy's distorted worldview. ... However, by the end of this book, we find out otherwise. ...
Rarely do we contemplate how lucky we are to live in a world with health care, technology, automobiles, and other conveniences that are mostly contemporary devices today. ... Considering the fact that the German soldiers were usually surrounded by men, anyone who could satisfy their sexual urges were made sure not to die. In the illustrated book "Maus", the author describes his experiences in Auschwitz and how he was able to survive. ... If there is one thing we can learn from this, though, it is that we need to reevaluate what is truly important to us. ... As a society, we need to appreciate ...
After this statement, Alfons is convinced of Hitler's beliefs and states: "For minutes on end, we shouted at the top of our lungs, with tears streaming down our faces: "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!" ... They were taught to live and die for their country. ... (Pg. 207) Heck said in the book, "We trumpeted this in our anthem, "We believed it." ... "We, a civilized, humane people, had allowed ourselves to become indifferent to brutality committed by our own government on our own citizens. ... (Heck, pg. 206) This statement by Heck shows how innocent the children of Germany actually were....
I agree with the author about how a group of "Ordinary Men" could become mass murderers. ... We do know from the reading that peer pressure did in fact, play a major role in the shootings and that the men in Battalion 101 killed the Jews because of a combination of peer pressure and orders from superior officers. I think here that we do know a lot about how the Germans carried out the Holocaust, but we know much less about how they felt and what they thought as they did it, and how they were affected by what they did, and what made it possible for them to do it. ... Thousands of Jews di...
.* Dorota: "This is disgraceful, how dare theywe could walk in the park." Szpilman: "No we can't no Jews allowed in the park.... Furthermore, the Germans let the Jews die in the Warsaw Ghettos and burn the others. ... " This demonstrates how much power Germans have counter to the Jews. ...
Prejudice begins with the "less than we are" logic. ... Because their duties were so unpleasant they were schooled for many years on how to push their emotions aside and follow their leader's orders. ... Not all of the death camp prisoners died from gas or shootings. ... It's hard for me to understand how someone could just stand back and watch the Nazis take the lives of millions of their neighbours, friends and co-workers. ...
We call this the Economic Theory of Anti-Semitism. ... And all appear to have died after Canada started bombing Serbs, therefore, prompting retaliation against the Albanians. ... As we look back to Canada's past regarding Jew-hatred, we can see how much we have improved. We have improved, but we still have a long way to go. ... I believe that we will overcome Jewish hatred and bigotry, only when the vision to be Canadian, and to be part of a uniquely multicultural society is universally shared. ...
When I learned that we would be watching the film in class, I was excited and curious to finally see what all the hype was about. ... Whenever he did meet with Stern, the intelligent manager would feed him little stories of how the Jews were being treated. ... The word quickly spread that in Schindler's factory nobody died. ... Once again, a film places before me the question of how a person, a human being, can be so desensitized as to perform these acts without the slightest sense of remorse. ... It's almost as if we don't learn or don't care. ...
