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Holocaust Perspectives of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel

Levi and Wiesel came from backgrounds which were completely different. Wiesels background was Eastern European. He, therefore, had...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

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...

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...

Eyewitness Accounts of Holocaust Survival

lived, who died, who had a decent job, or was worked to death depended largely on luck and on not panicking when confronted by the...

Events that Led to the Holocaust

Hiemer managed to use their political influence to largely overcome those advances and to call back into play the age old hatred o...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto

who was a Polish Catholic (Adler). He was in Auschwitz and he fell in love with a woman in the camps, Cyla Cybulska who was a Poli...

Documentary Analysis 'The Art of Survival'

positive and joyful. Although some of his work deals with his horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazi, the emphasis in Janka...

America's Holocaust, 'The Trail of Tears'

series of treaties, the settlers obtain various parcels of land from the Cherokees, however, it was not through voluntary means th...

Tadeusz Borowski and the Holocaust

prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...

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...

4 Essays on the Holocaust

ignored, lest genocide should reoccur. 2. Response to Eliezers first hours in Auschwitz : It is difficult to imagine the horror t...

Response to a Study of the Holocaust

one of the first times that technology was harnessed to serve an ideology in this way. Many sources tell us that one of the German...

Finding Meaning in Terror

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Forgiveness Among Holocaust Survivors

an excellent opportunity to study the experience of forgiveness for various reasons. For example, as the population ages, they are...