"Death seemed to guard all exits." This motto defined the fate of the millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As the Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in World War 2, the killing of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, Poles, Homosexuals, and more began. The Nazi's built...

Schindler's List and Night by Elie Wiesel Night is a horrible story of murder. Elie saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews being murdered. During his crisis he begins to loose faith in God, to who he used to be so devoted to. He believes that God was also murdered by the Nazis. In th...

The Holocaust was one of if not the worst example of genocide and mass murder. The Nazis did one of the most horrible things imaginable by killing so many people. Some the death camps could be considered the worst places on earth, even worse then Hell. As one survivor put it, "No one can understan...

The Holocaust was an event that has changed many people's lives. The Holocaust was an event that resulted in a death for many Jews and a few Catholics. Hitler and the Nazis believed that the world would be a better place without Jewish people. He sent many Jews to concentration camps to have...

Night - Summary Note: Although Night is not necessarily a memoir--as discussed in the "Overall Analysis and Themes" section--I will often refer to it as a memoir, since that is the genre which closest approaches the mixture of testimony, deposition and emotional truth-telling that is in Ni...

Escape or Die Imagine a society were your race does not have equal rights as the others. A world were you looked upon as an underling. Well this is what the Jewish community had to face during the Nazi regime of World War II. The Jewish people were singled out and mistreated among the country. ...

JUDAISM *There are approximately 13 Million people that follow Judaism today. *Judaism is the oldest major religion and the first religion to teach the belief in one god. *Unlike many other religions there is only one kind of people who follow it--Jews. *Christianity and Islam develope...

Schindler's List The nature of man in Schindler's List is straightforward. Schindler's List is an example of a malevolent universe. As the audience, we witness some of the horrible events caused by the Nazi's, and one NAZI member who challenged duty for love. The suffering people he w...

FREEDOM IS ALL WE HAVE TO LOSE "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." (Kristofferson) This sounds like a very prophetic statement. But is it? At first glance you may make sense of it, but when you look beneath the surface of this statement, you will realize that...

When the control of Germany was undertaken by Adolph Hitler, the entire world became infected by his Nazi fascism, especially the European Jews. Through Hitler\'s beliefs of \"white skin, blue eyes, light hair\" being the race of God, Jewish people were oppressed, forced into hard labor, and murder...

The Nazi party ruled Germany for twelve years. During their rule they had a central belief that was that in society there are certain people that are dangerous and need to be eliminated so that German society could flourish and survive. The Nazis believed that they were racially superior. They targ...

NIGHT ESSAY Night, Elie weisel's harrowing first-person account of the Holocaust demonstrates the murder of his family and his own survival in the hell of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His account reaches a person at the most elemental level and shows them light and also unforgett...

"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 be...

Holocaust EssayThe term Holocaust refers to the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party to exterminate the Jews and others considered to be inferior in order to purify Germany and its citizens from what they considered to be unclean. As a result, 12,000,000 people, about half of them Jews, were mu...

HolocaustDid the Holocaust really happen? A Holocaust is a disaster that results in the large-scale destruction of life (Resnick 9). The Holocaust was during World War II when the Germans killed millions of innocent Europeans. Adolf Hitler's life and ideas had an enormous impact on Jews, which lead ...

Primo Levi refers to the experience in the Lager as the new bible for one reason, and one reason only. Levi's experience during the Holocaust bears a striking resemblance to the story of Moses in the bible, both of which emotionally illustrate the harshness of human suffering, and the will to survi...

Remembering the HolocaustSix million Jews and millions of others, including Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, the mentally ill and the infirm were murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. The magnitude of brutality, the remorseless cruelty, and the mass murder during the Holocaust are unique. Howev...

Think about what life would be like if you had to wake up every morning wondering if you were going to live to see tomorrow, under Hitler's control people of all ages feared of bring murdered. When you look at people today many laugh, smile and play. But under the persecution and terror of Hitler...