Essays on Holocaust

Eva and Miriam were his favorite set of twins. They were afforded special treatment, such as being able to keep their hair and clothing and receiving extra food rations. As long as they remained healthy and useful they would be kept alive. Others however, were...

“There can’t be two smart peoples in the world. We’re going to win the war so only the Aryan Race will stand.” This quote, was spoken by Josef Mengele, the holocaust became a thing due to a man named Adolf Hitler and one of the...

Yin and Yang, a popular Chinese philosophy stating that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites. Meaning that the two opposites, such as good and evil, complement each other and have to learn to achieve harmony in order to live in peace. Each of...

The Holocaust, meaning “totally burnt,” was one of the most tragic events to ever occur in world history. It is considered an extreme form of genocide, which is a deliberate killing of large groups of people, especially of certain religious or ethnic groups. Centered in...

“At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job.” From his warm smiles to his lethal experiments, Josef Mengele deceived the prisoners of Auschwitz to make them feel safe, and then exploit their trust. Josef Mengele was one of many doctors positioned at...

The first people transported to Auschwitz arrived in the summer of 1940. About 3 years later, Josef Mengele arrived at the camp on May 30, 1943. When he first arrived, he was the medical officer in charge of the “gypsy camp”. Merely 3 weeks later,...

Starved, beaten, foul play, and dehumanized: these are only a couple of words to depict the ‘prisoners’ in concentration camps all around Germany amid World War II. Another word that depicts these individuals is, tests. Detainees were human test tubes, accessible in apparently boundless sums....

Bright lights, daily injections, hours of measuring, suffering, and pain turned into forgiveness, regained control, and a life filled with meaning. Josef Mengele gathered three thousand Jewish twins during World War Two in Auschwitz concentration camp and used them for experiments in hopes of creating...

The people of the United States have a different understanding of what happened in Germany during the 1920’s and to the 1940’s. The perspective U.S. citizens have is from films that were in black, white and came to understand that the holocaust was life without...

Throughout Maus and The Book Thief, both Vladek and Hans display different ways of affection and in the way that they engage with their children, however, they both have one thing in common which are their good intentions. Despite going through similar times, Vladek seems...