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Causes of the Holocaust

In five pages and 2 parts this paper discusses a German Jew's 1939 decision to emigrate and also examines the Holocaust in terms o...

Questioning the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism is a factor that has characterized many eras in history that substantially precede the rise of Hitler and the Third ...

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

her fate, whether it was quick, or lingering. Close to starvation, Jakob is discovered by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist who has...

Alicia My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman

themselves. Buczacz fell under Russian occupation. A few weeks after the Soviet/German treaty was signed, the Russian army entered...

Theological and Social Plurality and Jewish Theocracy

leadership into a new discussion, "a theology of pluralism." "It is not enough that we live together as faith communities; rather...

Collective Violence from a Social Psychological Perspective

In five pages this paper applies the self justification theory articulated by Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal to Holocaust acti...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

Holocaust Survivor Bewilderment and Anger

In ten pages this paper discusses the emotional anguish and outrage Holocaust survivors experienced following their liberation. E...

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

In four pages this essay considers Ozick's Holocaust novella in terms of symbolism featured in both the past as well as the presen...

'Passing,' Escape, and Hiding in Holocaust Literature

In eight pages these themes are examined in a comparative analysis of Holocaust literary works When Memory Comes, Dry Tears, and T...

Overview of a Family's Holocaust Horrors in Tale I of Art Spiegelman's Maus

In ten pages this paper examines Art Spiegelman's cartoon book in a consideration of how one family managed to survive the Holocau...

Holocaust and the Anger of Polish Survivor Tadeusz Borowski

In five pages this paper examines the Polish anger over the Holocaust in a consideration of the text This Way for the Gas, Ladies ...

Holocaust Turning Point Kristallnacht

decreed. In Jan 1937 - Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants o...

Dutch Role in the Holocaust

In nine pages this paper examines how the Dutch played a role during the Holocaust by hiding Jews in a consideration of statistics...

Comparison of Second World War Jewish Genocide and Extermination of Native Americans

In five pages this paper defines genocide and then examines it in a comparison of practices against Native Americans and Jews with...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

Genocide, The Holocaust, and Moral Indifference

In six pages this paper discusses how moral indifference can lead to heinous practices of genocide and the slaughter of the Holoca...

Overview of the Theories of Austrian Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl

excused them, did not live to see them practised in the gas chambers of Auschwitz (Freud died in 1939). Dr Frankls father, mother,...

The Reason for the Holocaust

is important. It suggests that Jews were victims of a campaign based solely on prejudice. Yet, it is not just during the World War...

Reasons for the Holocaust and Jewish Indifference to It

people taking days to die of their wounds, but no one in the village believes him; their reaction is: "Hes just trying to make us ...

Hitler and the Holocaust

and so there had been a religious bias after the advent of Christianity. Social animosity would grow as these two religious groups...

Capture of Adolf Eichmann

of German-occupied lands (Aharoni and Dietl 29). Organized deportation of Jewish peoples to the East began that summer. There is s...

Handicapped Individuals and the Holocaust

2006). They were seen as "a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, unworthy of life" (The Murder of the Handicapped, 200...

Jews and Persecution Reasons

this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...

Borowski on Human Nature

shes a mother, she and the toddler will be gassed together (Scherr). The child is stumbling after her, arms out, crying "mamma, ma...

The Treatment of Homosexuals During the Holocaust

course, there are people throughout history who did not hide their sexual preference. Also, the targeting of the gay population di...

Jewish History and Customs

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...

Comparing "Maus" And The National Holocaust Museum

will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...

The Holocaust and the Role of the Medical Community

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

Overview of the Holocaust

of these individuals were dispatched into labor camps by the Nazis, where many died shortly thereafter of various causes including...