That was not the case for the five videos selected to review for this paper. The overarching theme of each interview was the warmth and love of the Jewish families and their community. They were close-knit and cared deeply for one another.
It would be simplistic to say their love saved them. It would also be unfair to the millions of Jews who did perish in the Holocaust, as it would suggest that they and their families were somehow lacking and did not love each other strongly enough. Some Jews who had loving families survived, but many who had loving families did not. Survival ultimately came down to an unexplainable combination of fortitude, circumstances, timing, and sheer luck. There is no sufficient explanation that answers the questions about why some survived and why others did not.
Zelizer addresses the one-sidedness of the collective Holocaust memory in a chapter of her book entitled, "Collective Memories, Images, and the Atrocity of War." Zelizer quotes the words of scholar Saul Friedlander when she describes photographs of Holocaust atrocities as an "indelible reference point of the Western imagination" (Zelizer 1). For many people, the photos are all they know about the Holocaust. It is good for successive generations to have this understanding. One could describe emaciated prisoners standing in a miserable cluster after liberation, or the stacks of bodies tossed carelessly aside. Without photographic evidence of these atrocities, it might be easy to think they were not as grievous, or perhaps did not even occur at all. The photos are proof of man's inhumanity to man.
As Zelizer points out, "no single memory reflects all that is known about a given event, personality, or issue" (2) it is for this reason that the stories of the survivors are also important. The dead, obviously, cannot speak about what...
My entire family was marched at gunpoint into railway cars ordinarily used for cattle and sent to one of the many Eastern European death camps established throughout the continent by the Nazis. My brother and I watched our family and neighbors being rounded up from where we were hiding on the roof of our apartment building two nights ago. He believes that our family might still survive the war at
Holocaust affected Israeli society and culture and how Jews memorialize/Remember it today There exists no doubt regarding the massacre of the Jews during the phase of World War II and its impact on the lives of the Jewish people and the people who were near and dear to them. A dissention is required against those who assert that the tragedy never occurred, irrespective of whether they hold an opposite perspective
The principle differences in the selected group pertain to the method and the effects of hiding. Cornelia Aaron recollected the fact that approximately 20 times her mother and her hid in a folding bed when Nazis would enter looking for Jews. The most psychologically traumatic occurrence for her, however, was when -- as a young girl -- her parents chose to hide in one location while she elected to go
Resistance, Imprisonment & Forced Labor: a Slovene Student in World War II by Metod M. Milac is a memoir and primary source of his experience as a non-Jewish person during the Holocaust. Told through the perspective of Metod, his experiences between 1934 to 1950 allowed readers a glimpse of what it was like for non-Jewish victims experiencing Nazi occupation and encroachment in their homeland. Like another notable Holocaust figure, Anne
It is popularly thought that most Jews went to their deaths 'as sheep to the slaughter'. This is a misconception. What is surprising, as Bauer (1982) notes, is not how little resistance there was but rather, given the conditions that the Jews of Eastern Europe endured, how much. Sources Altschuler, D. Hitler's War Against the Jews, New York: Behrman House, l978 Bauer, Y.A History of the Holocaust. New York: F. Watts, 1982 Gilbert,
In 1918 Iceland became independent but remained under the rule of the Danish king. At the end of the war a plebiscite showed a 75% pro-Danish majority and the North Slesvig was once again reunited with Denmark (Miller 224). As World War I was coming close and Denmark remained neutral Jews started moving to the country. There are no exact statistics since many of these immigrants were wary of the
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