Wilm Hosenfeld Essays

The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, tells the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman and his time during the Holocaust. The movie is based on Szpilman’s autobiographical book and opens with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. However, Szpilman’s family does not think that the war will last long once they hear that England and France have declared war on Germany. The thought that the Allied powers will quickly defeat Germany was a common belief by many of the Polish Jews at the beginning of the war. The

In the world today, there are good kind hearted people, and there are also individuals who have immoral ulterior motives. But, to truly gain an insightful view of the person is to regard their actions under extreme conditions and pressure. While Elie Wiesel suffers during the Holocaust in his memoir Night, he witnesses the actions—whether good or bad, of the people he meets, and their motives that were never forgotten, as displayed in the novel. Since the Holocaust was an extreme event that caused

Werner Pfennig, a main character of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, is forced to undergo a great deal as a young German boy. Thrust into the war effort because of his adeptness with technology, Werner is forced to make a multitude difficult decisions that his sister, Jutta, would have disagreed with. For a large portion of his service, Wener does not accept responsibility for the fact that he is involved in the loss of many lives. Similarly, Frederick was reduced to a nearly vegetative

Page 2 of 2 1 Wolfe, Zane Phycology of the Holocaust 30 March 2023 What it Takes to Become an Upstander During the mass Genocide of Jewish people called and known as the Holocaust, that happend in Germany during 1930s, and 1940s, and around 6 million jewish people were killed during this period, although some place this as higher. Some people who are not as familiar with this topic, most wonder why did everyone go along with it? Also why did no one try to fight back? The main reason why people went

explain what the scene is, but not what is going on. The emotional impact of the sound of the piano was more evident in the visual and auditory experience of the movie than the memoir. Towards the end of the novel, Spilzman plays the piano for Hosenfeld who “had been standing with his arms crossed over his chest; he {then}unfolded them and sat down in the armchair by the piano, as if this discovery called for a lengthy reflection”

The second world war was a massive calamity for Poland and Europe as a whole. Major cities were turned into battlegrounds and ghettos, one of the most infamous ghettos during the war, was in Warsaw. The Warsaw ghetto was one of the worst acts of genocide and enslavement that the world has ever seen, the uprising that soon began was also another act which saw a large resistance of civilians, it was one of the biggest acts of civilian resistance. With the Warsaw ghetto uprising being one the bloodiest