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Lion Feuchtwanger's Prophetic Novel, The Oppermanns

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

Malcolm X Film by Spike Lee Historically Reviewed

also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...

Genocide, The Holocaust, and Moral Indifference

In six pages this paper discusses how moral indifference can lead to heinous practices of genocide and the slaughter of the Holoca...

Collective Violence from a Social Psychological Perspective

In five pages this paper applies the self justification theory articulated by Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal to Holocaust acti...

Theological and Social Plurality and Jewish Theocracy

leadership into a new discussion, "a theology of pluralism." "It is not enough that we live together as faith communities; rather...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

Eyewitness Accounts of Holocaust Survival

lived, who died, who had a decent job, or was worked to death depended largely on luck and on not panicking when confronted by the...

Holocaust and Its Lessons

In eleven pages this paper discusses the Holocaust and its lessons as they are reflected in the literary works of Elie Wiesel and ...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

In four pages this essay considers Ozick's Holocaust novella in terms of symbolism featured in both the past as well as the presen...

Holocaust Survivor Bewilderment and Anger

In ten pages this paper discusses the emotional anguish and outrage Holocaust survivors experienced following their liberation. E...

Holocaust Remembrance Through Literature and Art

In five pages this paper discusses how it is important to remember the Holocaust through art and history with The Diary of Anne Fr...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

'Passing,' Escape, and Hiding in Holocaust Literature

In eight pages these themes are examined in a comparative analysis of Holocaust literary works When Memory Comes, Dry Tears, and T...

Comparative Literature on the Holocaust

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares the presentation of the Holocaust in Night by Elie Wiesel and Survival in Auschwit...

Holocaust Perspectives of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel

Levi and Wiesel came from backgrounds which were completely different. Wiesels background was Eastern European. He, therefore, had...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

Overview of a Family's Holocaust Horrors in Tale I of Art Spiegelman's Maus

In ten pages this paper examines Art Spiegelman's cartoon book in a consideration of how one family managed to survive the Holocau...

Holocaust and the Anger of Polish Survivor Tadeusz Borowski

In five pages this paper examines the Polish anger over the Holocaust in a consideration of the text This Way for the Gas, Ladies ...

Holocaust Turning Point Kristallnacht

decreed. In Jan 1937 - Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants o...

Dutch Role in the Holocaust

In nine pages this paper examines how the Dutch played a role during the Holocaust by hiding Jews in a consideration of statistics...

Overview of the Theories of Austrian Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl

excused them, did not live to see them practised in the gas chambers of Auschwitz (Freud died in 1939). Dr Frankls father, mother,...

Holocaust Poetry of William Heyen

has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...

Inside the Bunker by John Sack

Holocaust revisionists argue is that there was a specifically designed genocidal policy enacted by the Germany government. Sack ...

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Volumes I and II and Steven Spielberg's Film Schinder's List

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

Nubia and Egypt

In five pages these two historical rivals are examined in terms of their cultural adversity based upon recent archaeological findi...

Documentary Analysis 'The Art of Survival'

positive and joyful. Although some of his work deals with his horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazi, the emphasis in Janka...

Hitler's Motives for Using Wehrmacht According to Kershaw

In three pages the Holocaust is examined in this consideration of Kershaw's perspective regarding the Wehrmacht uses by Adolf Hitl...

Film Representations of the Holocaust

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...