Holocaust

The keyword Holocaust is tagged in the following 9 articles.

Representing History in Art Spiegelman's Maus II

April 21, 2011 - 1337 words | Literary Criticism » Holocaust

When representing an idea, it is important to realize that a representation is much different from the original idea and can never fully grasp its complexities. It is also important to remember that it is impossible to not represent the concept one is portraying. To... Read Article »

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Primo Levi's Use of Poetic Language to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding in "Survival in Auschwitz"

February 2, 2011 - 2602 words | English » The Holocaust

Though the Holocaust ended nearly a lifetime ago, the systematic extermination of two- thirds of Europe’s Jewish population has left immutable memories that continue to manifest themselves within each new generation of citizens worldwide. The subject itself remains... Read Article »

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Retelling the Stories of the Holocaust in 'Shoah' and 'Maus': Distorted Images of a Monstrous Past

January 11, 2011 - 3059 words | History » The Holocaust

An artist, especially one who works with the visual media, is bound to come across obstacles in his creation of a work that represents or recollects images of the Shoah (i.e., the Holocaust). Precisely how does one represent an almost industrial genocide on such an... Read Article »

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Logotherapy and the Holocaust: Uniting Human Experience in Extremity and Normality

September 20, 2010 - 3043 words | Psychology » The Holocaust

The Holocaust created a new type of person en masse: survivors. Those who survived were forced to cope with a first-hand encounter with the human capacity for evil. For the Holocaust survivor, the struggle to live continued long after liberation. The extreme nature... Read Article »

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The Sobibor Revolt: "Death to the Fascists"

September 14, 2010 - 2292 words | History » The Holocaust

Between 1942 and 1943, 250,000 innocent Jews were systematically murdered at the Nazi death camp Sobibor (Blatt). An underground movement, composed of a select few courageous individuals, plotted and executed a plan of escape to avoid the otherwise inevitable fate... Read Article »

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The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany

September 9, 2010 - 2548 words | History » The Holocaust

The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the gas chambers during the Holocaust. Historians and social scientists often attribute this moral failure to the blissfully feigned... Read Article »

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Moral Adaptation in Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz"

March 17, 2010 - 1419 words | English » The Holocaust

The Holocaust proved that morality is adaptable in extreme circumstances. Traditional morality ceased to be so within the barbed wire of the concentration camps. Within the camps, prisoners were not treated like humans and therefore adapted animalistic behavior... Read Article »

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The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene

January 28, 2010 - 2901 words | History » World War II

Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and history into five segments. In his fourth... Read Article »

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An Argument for Outlawing Genocide Denial

December 28, 2009 - 996 words | Opinion » Genocide

More than half a century ago, famed philosopher George Santayana observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In the 20th century alone, the world bore witness to the Holocaust in Europe, as well as genocide in the former... Read Article »

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