Essays on Holocaust

Night written by Elie Wiesel is a story that focuses on the theme of loss of self respect caused by injustice when faced with adversity. This is further portrayed through the author/narrator who experiences the harsh reality of the Holocaust and faces consequences of lose...

The word itself often has negative connotations and brings to mind dictators holding trophies and cackling evilly. And yet it doesn’t entirely have to mean that; in fact, it can mean the smallest bit of power over a situation. In the novels Maus I and...

In the Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis enlightened us with an enormous amount of information about famines, and droughts during the early 1800s into late 1800s. Mike showed us the lack of help from government toward different counties and the different things that individuals did...

This character comes from the memoir “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel a survivor of the Holocaust. This book is a fist hand documentation of the Holocaust at the point of view of Eliezer. It tells the story of people he knew and how they and many...

Schlomo Wiesel was Elie Wiesel’s father – they both lived through the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, Schlomo was a very responsible and trustworthy man – he took care of his family, and (when the Nazis took over) took care of his neighbors. As time went...

All through history there are big numbers of what we term ‘watershed occasions’. These are occasions of such extent that they last affect the world and have the ability to change the world until the end of time. One such very important occasion is the...

Throughout the holocaust populism and ideology have been evidently seen threw the many stages. Populism is a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against a privileged elite (example would be a dictator such as Hitler). The movement is...