First They Killed My Father, By Loung Ung

Childhood wartime experiences have an impact on Ung’s life. Loung Ung is a Cambodian-born American human-rights activist and lecturer. She wrote a memoir called “First They Killed My Father” and talks about the war in Cambodia and experiences. As a result of the war in Cambodia, Ung’s childhood was impacted because she experienced no freedom of religion, a lack of privacy and a lack of individuality .

Around six million European Jews were killed (The Holocaust). The Holocaust was run by Adolf Hitler, and Hitler loved being on top (The Holocaust). The word Holocaust comes from holos which is whole, and kaustos which is burned (The Holocaust). Hitler’s army tried to keep all of the concentration camps a secret, but with all the killing they just couldn’t keep it from the world (The Holocaust). Over 275,000 handicapped were killing (The Holocaust). In the fall of 1939, the army choose the mental and disability people to be gassed (The Holocaust). July 1933, German camps held 27,000 people (The Holocaust). At the end of the war, Hitler commited suicide (The

Upon the invasion of Poland, Hitler had expanded his army and conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and many other countries in 1940 (“The Holocaust- World War II”). When the countries were invaded, the Germans gathered up Jewish and Non-Jewish civilians and marked the Jews with yellow stars (“The Holocaust- World War II”). After they were marked, the Jews, and the other civilians, were transported to ghettos in death camps (“The Holocaust- World War II”). Upon arrival to the camps, sick, old, and young people were killed first (“The Holocaust- World War II”). In 1942, mass gassings began in one death camp and then began in the other five camps that were built later (“The Holocaust- World War II”).

Approximately 12,000 Jews were killed each day (“The Holocaust”). Many of which who were unemployed, lived in poverty, and starved (“The Holocaust”). Adolf Hitler invaded the western half of Poland and sent everyone to concentration camps such as Dachau, Auschwitz, and many more (“The Holocaust”). Adolf’s plan was to discard all of the Jews (“The Holocaust”). He had them gassed, dying of starvation and diseases, hung, and shot (“The Holocaust”). Concentration camps were evacuated in 1944 (“The Holocaust”). The Holocaust resulted in World War II and Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 (“The

In 1975, The Khmer Rouge became the ruling political party of Cambodia after overthrowing the Lon Nol government. Following their leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed an extreme form of social engineering on Cambodian society. They wanted to form an anti-modern, anti-Western ideal of a restructured “classless agrarian society'', a radical form of agrarian communism where the whole population had to work in collective farms or forced labor projects. The Khmer Rouge revolutionary army enforced this mostly with extreme violence. The book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, written by Luong Ung, is the author’s story of growing up during this time period. She was five years old when the Khmer Rouge came

Loung Ung 's First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers follows her struggles as a child during the Angkar rule. Children in Cambodia directly suffered from trauma, which obviously dismisses the myth that children experience less pain than adults. The importance of Ung 's book is the emotional impact she has on the reader because she gives a voice to the victims and to the dead. As Americans, this topic, the Cambodian genocide does not get taught commonly in education. It shows the trauma that the citizens went through and how it affected the country.

Symbolism in First They Killed My Father In different cultures around the world clothing plays an enormous part in people's everyday lives. In the book, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, Ung’s, childhood was ripped away from her when the Khmer Rouge marched into Cambodia and started killing people. Loung Ung’s family evacuated their city with only the things that they could carry.

The Horrifying event all started when Germany appointed Adolph Hitler as their leader. The Holocaust began January 30, 1933 and lasted through May 8, 1945 (History 1). The Holocaust affected numerous of Jews and killed approximately 6 million (History 1). To blame for this uncivil act is Hitler and also the Nazis. The Holocaust was a very traumatic event that was a big reality check on how cruel humans can be to each other.

The Holocaust was the systematic killing and extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the German Nazi state between 1939 and 1945. Innocent Europeans were forced from their homes into concentration camps, executed violently, and used for medical experiments. The Nazis believed their acts against this innocent society were justified when hate was the motivating factor. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces societies to examine the responsibility and role of citizenship, in addition to approaching the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Holden Congressional Record). Despite the adverse treatment of the Jews, there are lessons that can be learned from the Holocaust: The Nazi’s rise to power could have been prevented, the act of genocide was influenced by hate, and the remembrance of the Holocaust is of the utmost importance for humanity.

First They Killed My Father is first and foremost a memoir about the horrific genocide of the Cambodian people under Pol Pot’s regime. In regards to the emotion love, there’s hardly any evidence of romance to be found. However, with that in mind, it’s not hard to see aspects of a love story hinted at several parts throughout it. These hints are often not shown in the way most people associate love stories but alongside Ung’s description of the struggles and hardships she faced under Pol Pot.

The Holocaust started by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. His parents were called Klara Hitler and his dad was named Alois Hitler. Hitler had siblings but out of the six children born only two survived, Adolf his

In the month of March 1933, one of the first camps, Dachau, was opened. Dachau was a concentration camp, or a prison camp maintained by the Third Reich, [the name for Germany when the government was controlled by Adolf Hitler]. Aside these concentration camps was two other types of camps; labor camps, and death camps. A main concentration camp was Theresienstadt. Theresienstadt was located in what is now known as the Czech Republic. More than 150,000 were kept there for months until being sent to their deaths in Treblinka and Auschwitz death camps. The people in

The Holocaust was a time period in which Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany. He prosecuted many Jews because he believed they were the reason World War 1 started, causing the death of 100,000 German soldiers. Because of this, he made sure nearly every Jew was put into concentration camps or killed. Adolf Hitler was a man who wanted everything his way, and because of this he killed innocent people. The Holocaust was an unfair period for the Jews. The Jews were killed because of who they were, and the citizens didn’t try to do anything to help them

At first, the Nazis were only killing political opponents like Communists and/or Social Democrats, for which their harshest persecution was used. Many of the first prisoners sent to Dachau (The first official concentration camp opened near Munich in March of 1933) were communists. By July, the concentration camps run by the Germans held around 27,000 people in what they called “protective custody.” The Nazis had huge rallies and acts of symbolism such as burning of books by Jews. During the years of 1933 to 1939, the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany got out quickly, but many were left behind, and they lived their lives in a constant state of uncertainty and fear. During the fall of 1939, Hitler started the so-called Euthanasia Program. The Euthanasia Program allowed Nazi officials to select around 70,000 German citizens institutionalized for mental illnesses or disabilities. These Germans were to be gassed to death. After prominent German

War can be dangerous and after it is long gone it can leave an effect on the soldiers and the people of that country. The author of the memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung experienced many hardships as a child. Most of these issues originated from the war that take place in Cambodia at that time. The war caused many challenges for the villagers including children like Ung and that affected them in a drastic way.