Bielski Brothers Thesis

A Tribute to Hans Hubermann Hans Hubermann left an impact on many people's lives. He was born in Germany on the 1st of March, 1890. Not much is known about his childhood besides for the fact that he fought in World War I when he was older and that is where be met and befriended Erik Vandenberg. During his service he learned to play the accordion and made that his life profesion. After the war he settled down with his wife Rosa on Himmel Street in a town near Munich called Molching and fathered two children, his son Hans Jr. and his daughter Trudy.

Defiance (2008) (R) was directed by Edward Zwick, and is the story of Jewish brothers from Belarus. There were four brothers; in descending age order: Tuvia, Zus, Asael, and Aron. They were poor Jewish peasants, yet this helped the brothers to learn how to survive and toughened them. The movie was also accurate in many of the smaller details of the Bielski brothers’ story. The Tuvia and Zus were said to be large, sturdy men, and in the film, I believe the actors portrayed them well.

Hans Hubermann from The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is paralleled to Jesus because they both share the need to help and treat everyone, not discriminating against race or religious ideology. Through his actions, Hans proves himself as the epitome of kindness. Despite the daunting penalty of death, he continues to provide food and services for Jews. Society, controlled by Aryan Nazis, prohibits many acts of hospitality towards Jews. Herr Hubermann demonstrates kindness and humanity while the elitist Germans persecute and murder Jews.

This Klan was known for being mischievous and starting trouble and what played a major role was what they wore. By 1879 the enrollment of the Klan was around "eighty-five thousand individuals." (Southern Poverty Law Center). Despite the fact that the development of the tribe was consistent it needed leadership and discipline, which caused many of the groups to become extremely violent. A significant number of the guests that went to the town of Pulaski were motivated by the KKK and when they went back home they decided to set up their own dens and branches of the KKK.

Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief paints a brilliant picture of a young girl’s life in Hitler’s Germany. Liesel experienced the normal aspects of childhood: friendship, competition, loyalty, mischief. She also, however, encountered numerous ordeals that a child should not have to undergo. Liesel’s story is very unique, but I find it easy to connect with her.

The rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s In the 1920’s the Ku Klux Klan reemerged since they had been inactive since the 1870’s. In the 1920’s America experienced some very impactful events that will for ever shape our history. The great wall street crash of 1929 which led the country into the Great Depression.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 and protracted in almost every southern state by 1870. “They became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the republican parties reconstruction era policies that aimed at endowing political and economic equality for blacks.” (history.com “Jim Crow Law”) The Ku Klux Klan was a dangerous force in the United States because support of local law enforcement, intimidation and pride. Back in the day, Local Law Enforcement officials belonged to the Klan or declined to take against it, even those who arrested klan members found it difficult to find witnesses that were willing to argue against them.

During the Holocaust, in the 20th century, Jews and many others that practiced judaism were discriminated. Hitler was the leader of the Holocaust along with many others. Hitler’s idea was that the aryan race was pure and Jews, because of their appearance, were not. There were around 6 million deaths The Holocaust was a time during the 20th century that many Jews or people that judaism

Some people think of the Holocaust just as Jews being led to slaughter, while this is true for some there is other responses to their lives being threatened. Some chose to fight, whether by choice or by feeling they had no other decision they fought. Another aspect that some may overlook is that the resistance fighters were people too, they had personal lives and they all dealt with things differently. When boxed in a corner everyone acts differently, this is especially true when looking at the fight or flight response of the resistance fighters. Another aspect is how their religious beliefs influenced their actions.

Jeff Koons is an American contemporary artist born in 1955 in Pennsylvania. A major practice of Koons is his liking to take everyday, commonplace objects and putting them interestingly in installations. He got his expertise in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, obtaining his M.F.A. He ended up getting more of an education at the School of the Art Institution of Chicago after seeing an exhibit of Jim Nutt, who attended the same school.