Silence is known as the lack of sound: the lack of words. It is also a well known fact that words can be dangerous, as people can spread false rumors and hate speech. However, silence, though it is a lack of words, can prove to be even more dangerous than the words of hate themselves. Reason being, though the silence can not be used to spread the hate, it does not do anything to prevent or stop the hate from happening. One of the best examples of the danger of silence is the Holocaust. This awful event began in 1933 and did not end until 1945. While silence is not what caused the Holocaust, it is what allowed it to go on for 12 years. In fact, many, “. . .Germans did not murder Jews or the Roma, but every person who knew what was happening
Ellie Wiesel was a Jew who was captured by the German Nazi’s during the Holocaust in 1944. He was only 15 years old when he was sent to the Concentration Camp. Ellie, his mom, his sister, and his dad was sent to the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz. In January 1945 Ellie was transported from Auschwitz to the camp in Buchenwald. He talked about how he remembered walking by the Crematorium and watching them throw babies into the ovens.
During the Holocaust, six million Jews were sent to their deaths. Nevertheless, in the Holocaust literature, one can find the glimpse of joy. In 1933, in Germany, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party created a German Empire & Jews were no place in Hitler’s vision. Love & Laughter were two of the main things that made Jews and other people forget the time happening in the Holocaust, including nature. Almost 2,700,000 Jews were sent to extermination camps such as, Treblinka and Chelmno, where they were lately killed.
"Concentration camps, that's what you call, uh, a camp what actually is annihilation...they annihilate people, actually. " This quote by Abraham Lewent sums up the story of the Holocaust and what an egregious time it was. The genocide of over six million people during World War II was the Holocaust. It all started with a man named Adolf Hitler and his rise to power and the German people who were desperate to believe anything they were told.
This book took place during World War II Poland. In the book it does not really mention any dates that we could tie in with this time. There are several mentions however of signs of war for instance, “There were air raid sirens at night but for a few weeks nothing happened.”(pg. 26) This was before they were moved to the ghettos of Warsaw.
The Holocaust began many tragedies, many people dying and going through pain, being beaten and hung because they were jews. The Peace Resistance was to help many people get back to their old ways and connect back with their families if they had survived. Many jews were blamed for many things that were not true, they were treated the way there because non-jews believed Hitler and others who thought jews were not the perfect
situations that are way more important. On the other hand, if this situation is left undone, people will feel like nobody cares about what had happened and criminals are just left to live their lives. There will be many displeased people who just want to get justice for their forebearers or even for themselves. While it had been so long that the Holocaust occurred, it is only right that it is all left done and finalized.
The Holocaust. A short, unimaginable period, of just over twelve years, where almost 6 million Jews were murdered by the German nazis. Overall, 17 million victims were killed and thousands were forced to work in inhumane conditions and live in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a victim of the Holocaust, having been deported at the age of 12, is one of the few survivors who lived to tell their story. He has written many books and given many speeches about his experience, but they all convey a similar message, that we as a population, cannot remain silent but to stand up for the indifferences and the horrendous events of this world.
Silence and Indifference during the Holocaust Silence and indifference are both extremely harmful when people are being oppressed or persecuted. An extreme example of this is the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, those who disagreed with the actions of the Nazis were silent because they did not speak out, and some people were indifferent because they just did not have an opinion on the situation. Silence encourages the tormentor because it leads them to believe that nobody is opposed to their actions and they could do anything and nobody will speak out. Indifference is the most insidious danger of all because it appears to be harmless, but it encourages the tormentor in the same way as silence.
The Holocaust lasted for four years, a mass genocide executed by Nazi Germany, with the goal to eradicate all Jews. Six million Jews were successfully murdered, and hardly anyone lifted a finger to help the thousands killed daily. Elie Wiesel was right in saying that 'Being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil; that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen '. This is true, since evil always comes back and causes so many people so much pain.
Historians have been debating how the spirit triumphed during the Holocaust for years. The spirit triumphed through the Holocaust through many, many distractions, nature, and the support and love of family and friends. The Nazis had killed, and enslaved so many Jewish people in concentration camps. But, the Nazis couldn’t take their spirit from them.
In this essay I was talking about silence through the whole holocaust from the side of the victims, God, community. I think they could not really do anything about it. They would be killed in either way, because they had to stay quiet. It is sad to say this but I do not think they had a chance to stand up to them and say something and win.
Universal Denial of Human Rights Holocaust is defined as a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. From 1942 to 1945, victims of the largest mass genocide were denied basic human rights by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Looking back, two of the main articles abused in Universal Declaration of Human Rights were article five and article nine. To start, article five states, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.”
One of the most notorious events in all of history is the Holocaust, which took place during World War II. Every tragedy begins with something, or in this case someone, and this was commenced by a man by the name of Adolf Hitler. Hitler stepped into a powerful role in Germany, and at about that time he began this lengthy period of horror. He had a goal for his time of rule; execute all of the Jews in Europe, and he did just about that by murdering two-thirds of their population. Hitler thought of the Germans as a more superior race than the Jews.
Certain fears prevent others from causing a certain action in life, avoiding to be next to something or someone, or fear can get to a point to make someone remain silent. Meanwhile, silence is something that many people don’t consider that important. Maybe silence may not be a big deal. But in reality, silence is something that can mean a lot and can affect others in many ways over time. During the Holocaust, many of the Jews have noticed that they have changed over time.
Silence, the empowering strength that shields us, protects us from pain and prevents trouble or the disturbing absence, omission of mention, comment, or expression. When there is silence nothing is heard, its empty, your shut out, unable to give voice, to talk back. Silence kills, it kills “the essence which holds and molds an individual together in order to form one complete organism” (Kao Thao 18). They say that silence is power and in away I guess that holds some truth but silence is also powerless, an ineffective censorship that keeps us from speaking out. Speech, true speaking is an authority that when spoken right is more powerful than silence, “not solely an expression of creative power; it is an act of resistance…a courageous act as such it represents a threat.