Essays on Holocaust

Until 1941, Adolf Hitler’s main purpose was to exile Jews from Germany: however, at this time, Hitler issued the order to exterminate- do away with- the Jewish race (“Adolf Hitler” Britannica School). Anne Frank and her family were forced to leave Germany because of Hitler...

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...

Eighty years after Kristallnacht, Jewish life returned to Berlin. More than 30,000 Jews currently live in the city, despite anti-Semitism and police protection. ‘It’s very important to me that I grew up in Berlin,’ says Deborah Levine. ‘In terms of Judaism, this is the German...

Authors have a tendency of using the most familiar aspects of life to attract the attention of readers and to make their stories worth reading. For instance, John Boyne, in his work “The Boy in Striped Pajamas”, extensively used food to further develop the plot...

John Boyne is an Irish writer born in port. He wrote seventy short stories and plenty of novels targeted on adults and young readers. The Boy in patterned Pyjamas could be a novel targeted on a younger audience. Many film variations were done to the...

History has always been my favorite subject out of every other subject that I’ve experienced. Learning about the different topics within different events in history is what makes me learn a lot more about what other people have gone through. People have gone from a...