The picture book, Golem by David Wisniewski starts out with a city called Prague, the city is quiet, however every religion is against each other, the Czech, against the German, Protestant against the Catholic, however everyone is against the jews. A Rabbi by the name of Judah Loew ben Bezalel, asked someone to create a giant clay monster to protect the Jewish people, he created him, gave him life by lightning. His orders were to protect the Jewish community in the ghettos, he was ordered to bring the lying Christians to the authorities unharmed. By day he was a regular person by the name of Joseph, his job was to help around the synagogue, and by night he went to protect the Jewish community, although giant all the time Rabbi Loew told
The main character in the story Monster, written by Walter Dean Myers, is a sixteen-year old named Steve Harmon. Steve Harmon is an African-American teen on trial for a terrible crime. He is being accused of being a lookout in the crime. Steve has many strong characteristics that are shown throughout the story. A few of those characteristics are feeling scared, having an identity crisis, and being a filmmaker.
Wench is so powerful that it pulls a reader into the story. Wench written by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is based on the relationship between the main characters Drayle and Lizzzie. Drayle is a slave master and Lizzie is a house slave. She does not know the meaning of true love and mistakes the relationship with her master as love. She eventually sees Drayle for what he truly is.
The article, Fighting Against Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis, describes How a boy named Ben was a jew and many times he was close to getting killed, he then was a partisan. When Ben Kamm was in his early teen years Adolf Hitler was planning on his annihilation of all jews in Europe. When the time of the annihilation came The Nazis and Hitler were burning and/or vandalizing any jewish owned businesses. Jews were not even aloud to step foot in public parks, libraries or leave there house after 5pm. That is what Fighting Against Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis, is about.
This account of Jewish survival is at once depressing, excruciatingly so. Unrelenting abuse and unspeakable crimes constantly bombard the reader. How does one feel having read it? Sick? Furthermore even Elie, a survivor, says, “My soul had been invaded -and devoured- by a black flame (pg.37)…my life… no longer mattered (pg.113).”
Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land is a memoir of Sara Nomberg- Przytyk, who spent a count of years in Auschwitz, at a concentration camp. She witnessed many unforgettable, yet gruesome things at the concentration camp; she describes all the horrible events and still seeks hope throughout the book. Nomberg- Prztyk is an unusual prisoner, and one of the special worker who worked at the hospital. Therefore, she got better treatment than other prisoners; she was even exempted from going to the gas chamber and always had enough to eat. She uses the special treatment to talk to people she comes across, and share their story.
In order for the readers, to properly do this and understand the feelings of the characters, the story must first have some credibility to it which in this case, is given by the theme of loss of faith in God. In the Holocaust, while it was a massacre of all non-Aryan races, Hitler particularly targeted the Jews and sought to exterminate them due to their faith. He does this by implementing a plan described by Saul Lerner in his Magill’s Literary Annual 1981 as “a comprehensive program of mass murder” (2). This plan involved first putting the Jews into ghettos, granting them nonperson status and eventually, shipping them to concentration camps. In these concentration camps, the Jews were given inhumane, brutal actions.
Millions of Jewish people were killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Many under the order of the commandants of the camps. One of the many commandants of the Nazi concentration camps was Amon Goeth. Goeth was a sadistic Nazi officer who was the Commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów, Poland. Amon Goeth was conflicted between his sadistic side and his desire to be a humane person because he spared Jews, yet he still killed Jews, and wanted acceptance.
In Prisoner B-3078 by Alan Gratz, Yanek is a young boy who gets captured by Nazis and brought to the holocaust. As months come he gets transported to different concentration camps daily. Yanek finds ways to survive the holocaust, using courage, determination, and being fortunate. These traits help him succeed in his main goal, survival.
Goeth remained loyal to Hitler and the Nazis from the age of 17, when he joined a Nazi youth group, until his death, when he saluted Hitler as he was hanged. The film Schindler’s List depicts the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, which Goeth supervised, and it did so accurately, even including small details, such as Jews escaping the ghetto through the sewers. However, it left out the major detail that thousands of the Jews from the ghetto were killed in the gas chambers in
Matt Fowler, a man who cared about his children dearly, was the man who had to do the unspeakable, bury his own child. After his son was murdered in cold blood by the Richard Strout, the man whose Frank’s new lover was married too, we see how Fowler handles the brutal murder of his son. In the beginning Fowler reacts how any person would when it comes to the death of a friend or family member, mourning. He does nothing but sit around the house with his wife Ruth and cries, denying his friend’s plea to go drinking with them. Then he finally succumbs to the invitations when Ruth tells him to go out and take his mind off the situation.
Whitmarsh, Tim. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World. Vintage Books, 2015. Throughout Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, author Tim Whitmarsh redefines classical history through the lens of the often neglected and demonized perspectives of Atheists.
The main character, Eliezer, is a Jewish teenager in the 1940s. Since he is Jewish, he sent to a concentration camp, called Buchenwald. Eliezer has seen people burnt alive at Buchenwald, which really startles him. From the day he saw the burning people, he knew he had to seem strong to survive. “ Eat!
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie, a thirteen year old Jewish boy, lives in Transylvania, Hungary with his family. Elie practices his religion by going to mosques and praying. However on the seventh day of Passover, the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. One of the big impacts they had was going to the unsanitized ghettos. In the ghettos the Jews were trapped in a big area of homes that were surrounded by walls.
In class we are working with a book call Night, by Elie Wiesel. This book is about a young man call Elie and his family that live in Transylvania that has a lot of trouble all around the book because like he is jews they send him and his family to a concentration camp and he is waiting for a miracle of god to save him but like he doesn't see nothing happening he is starting do get mad and stop believing in him, this book is basically about how world war I started because germans(nazis) thought jews were different people. Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a person who believes in god to a person who only thinks about food. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the fact that because of everything he is going though and he thinks that god will stop it or will help him but like he sees nothing is
The stories of the World War Two air raids on Hamburg, Germany in the summer of 1943 has forever changed how the world views the Jewish race. The impacts they have had on the modern society’s recognition, views and beliefs of the horrific events have established a better understanding of what a Jewish Hamburger in the 1940’s had to go through during those times and how they had the will to survive. Marione Ingram’s ‘Operation Gomorrah’, relives an adult Jewish Hamburg looking back at their key childhood memories and constructs this survivalist identity through her use of textual form, figurative language, idiom/register and tone in her piece.