In the fall of 1941 Romanian authorities began to remove the undesirables out of the country. They were brought to Transistria, an annexed part of Romania on the boarder of the U.S.S.R. ... In Romania, some discharged Roma soldiers were deported to Transistria, while others volunteered to be deported to join their families. ...
Russia was not the only source of persecution for the Jews, they were also fleeing Romania. Many Jews left Rumania because of an Anti-Semitic League founded in Bucharest in 1895. ... It is estimated that 700,000 Jews left Russia, 200,000 left Austria, and 100,000 left Rumania. ...
Museum of Tolerance As I walked through the elevator doors into the lobby, it already seemed so strange and foreign. I walked through the metal detector and grab my wallet out of the bowl. People walk by and stare at me as if I were in a place that I shouldn't be. For a moment I felt li...
"Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world. It makes us more sensitive to the world, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds." This quote written by an unknown author is very true. If you read literature and really soa...
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent...
Biography of Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (Elie), son of Mr. And Mrs. Shlomo Wiesel, was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including Hungarian, Roman...
Extreme trauma was imposed on Jews who were victims of the most massive executions in history, known as the Holocaust. Yet half a century after the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. By then, 6 million of the Jewish population had been wiped out, and only 200,000 survived. ...
The Abandonment of the Jews By David S. Wyman "To kill the Jews, the Nazis were willing to weaken their capacity to fight the war. The United States and its allies, however, were willing to attempt almost nothing to save them- (Pp 5). If we would have put half as much energy into loving the Jews ...
Adolf Hitler did not live a very long life, but during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. People ask what could've happen to this small sickly boy during his childhood that would've led him do such h...
