Why Grynszpan Killed The Diplomat

In the book, Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, the story tells us about the true journey of Yanek Gruener through his time during the Holocaust. In the late 1930’s, Ten-year old Yanek is a Jewish boy who lives a happy life with his family in Poland. Until one day, his life changes as German Nazi’s invade his town, and take his family, and himself prisoner. Yanek is separated from his family and is put into one, of many, Jewish concentration camps. When arrived at the first camp, Yanek receives a tattoo on his arm, as his prisoner number, B-3087. He then is reunited with his uncle, only to hear the news that all of his family is dead. Sadly in a turn of events, Yanek’s uncle is killed by a Nazi for basically no reason. After the events of the

On November 7, 1983 Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen year old Jew, caused the Nazis to seek revenge. Herschel was living in France for a few years when he discovered that something had happened to his parents. He learned that his parents had been transported to Poland by the Nazis from Hanover. In anger the teenager came up with a plan involving Ernst vom Rath to get back at the Nazis.

The event leading up to Kristallnacht was involving a shooting. A young Polish man named Herschel Grynszpan found out his parents were exiled to where he was born in Hanover , Germany. For retaliation on November 7 , 1938 he shot Ernst Vom Rath. Rath lived 2 days after and died due to wounds; Hitler attended his funeral and that day of continuing the next day . During Kristallnacht many destructive things were done to the Jews. Over 250 synagogues and 7,000 Jewish business were burned. Any business owned by a Jew wasn’t allowed to reopen. 91 were dead and over 30,000 men were arrested and sent to camps. The German people made Jews life a living hell and things became harder and harder on the Jews causing them to be prohibited from certain areas of the city and school.

My goal with my research is to look into the resistance of both the Jewish people and the others in European society who assisted in Jewish escapes. The perceived image of the Jews during the Holocaust is of “lambs to the slaughter.” The pictured painted of the rest of European society is one of either knowing accomplices or silent spectators. The Jewish people had many forms of resistance, some small and some large. While many of their neighbors were silent spectators, but many people were actively resisting the tyrannical Nazi government by assisting Jewish escapes. Each of these individuals risked their lives and the lives of their families and friends to aid these hunted individuals. They all deserve to have their stories heard and honored. In a time of complete chaos and destruction many people would not have the ability or fortitude to save the life of another person. The people that I will discuss in this paper were not only able to take that step, but put themselves and their families in real and eminent danger for the life, at times, of a complete stranger.

The assault occurred after Herschel Grynszpan, a 17 year old Jew living in Paris, shot and killed an associate from the German Embassy in revenge for the poor treatment his dad and his family endured by the Nazis in Germany.

I went to this memorial site by myself on the Sunday to compare and contrast the differences between this concentration camp and Ravensbrück. Through the exportation of this site, I noticed many individuals with “selfie” sticks and using them in order to take “selfies” throughout the site. I noticed people even taking these types of pictures in the memorial part of the camp. This was by far the most disgusting and disturbing area that I found people taking “selfies” in because it is where the SS guards had the crematoriums, the gas chamber and where the guards would shoot the prisoners. This thoroughly disgusted me the fact that people thought this was a socially acceptable practice to take “selfies” in the a place of such destruction of human

The collection of images in the Auschwitz Album offered a perspective of the Holocaust from a primary perspective, a photograph. The images display real events of what Jewish people had to endure on their way to Auschwitz, one of the most devastating and infamous concentration camps. While illustrating a panel based off of one of these images, I used many different techniques, inspired by Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus. I adopted these techniques to display the emotion and density of the tone the photograph gives off. My illustration is loosely based on the photograph I selected from the Auschwitz Album, which displays many women and children waiting on a platform, anticipating their deportation. My drawing focuses on a mother and her

Gender theory is an effective framework to interpret Jewish deportation because it offers valuable insights into the subtle power relationships between Jews and their oppressors. In order to effectively use gender as a prism of analysis it is necessary to venture beyond descriptive usage of gender; Joan Scott’s characterisation of gender as an implicit way of signifying power provides a sophisticated avenue to explore this topic. When applying gender theory to Schindler’s List, scholars should modify their expectations in light of Zelizer’s critique that popular culture cannot mirror the Holocaust ‘as-it-happened’. To resolve some of these challenges researchers can ‘triangulate’ popular representations with photographs to ensure that their scholarship remains rooted in historical fact. Ultimately, provided that researchers are cognizant of the limitations inherent within both Schindler’s List and photographs, gender theory is a highly applicable intellectual backdrop to examine themes of power, masculinity, and authority during the Holocaust.

Erika Riemann was a teenager living in East Germany at the end of World War II. Her oral testimony describes her experiences as a political prisoner during the cold war. She was arrested in 1945 for drawing a bow on a portrait of Stalin that hung in her school classroom. At the time of her arrest she was only 14 years old.

The poet is Wisława Szymborska and the poem is written in third person omniscient. The literal meaning of the poem is that Hitler is just an ordinary child that is yet to become anything he wants to be. Keeping in mind that his impending future is not the brightest, Szymborska ironically represents Hitler as just another ordinary child. The title, Hitler’s first photograph goes to symbolise how Hitler looked like an ordinary child and nothing more. This is evident through her childlike language throughout. In this poem, Szymborska writes about the how no one would have predicted what would become of Hitler

She asked me to use those cards to know about those children, at the end of the trip, we were able to put those cards in computer to find out whether the child on the card survived or died in the Holocaust. When I put that card in the computer, Lia Borak, showed up on the screen. She was twelve years old and lived in city of Lvov, in eastern Poland. Her father had been a very wealthy landowner who lost much of his money before the war. The family was still well off, however, Lvov had a thriving Jewish community. It was home to a Jewish population of 110,000 and was a center of culture, education and political activity. The Germans occupied Lvov on June 30, 1941, and immediately began murdering Jews. In four days of anti-Semitic rioting, over 4000 Jews were killed and then the rest were forced to wear the yellow stars to identify them as Jews. Their property was plundered and they were sent to labor camps, where synagogues were burned down and Jewish cemeteries were desecrated. Germans never stopped murdering Jews and one after another, Germans were sending Jews to Belzec Concentration camp and forced the rest to work on the factories and be their servants. At the end, they ended up killing all the Jews. Lia was one of 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Germans and their collaborators during the

Treblinka, 1941 - one of the events in history during the Holocaust that will never be forgotten by the Jews. It is one of those moments where Jews come together in the hardest of times to create, in a sense, peace amongst themselves. Not only did the Holocaust affect the Jews physically and mentally at the time, but it also greatly impacted their lives after the horror. Some victims of the Holocaust, the worst atrocity committed in humankind’s history, find it extremely difficult to open up and talk about their past because they don't want to remember any part of it. However, most survivors choose to share their stories with the younger generation in order to pass them onto future ones. Despite the torture and cruelty that the survivors

These are pictures of the concentration and death camps and where they were and some still are.

One of the many important and most memorable incidents of World War Two would be the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Germans who were known as the Nazis, considered the Jews to be “enemy aliens”. As part of this, the Nazis thought that “Aryans” were a master race. Therefore, they decided to destroy the Jewish race, and created genocide. The Jews were put into unbearable torture at many concentration and death camps. In fact, 6 million Jews were killed in this incident; however, there were many victims who survived this anguish. One of the many survivors was Simon Wiesenthal, who survived the Nazi death camps and began his career as a Nazi hunter.

Auschwitz was amongst some of the most diverse and intricate concentration camps during the Holocaust. The goal that the Nazis had was to make the camp look comely in order to blind the world from the evil that was taking place just inside the gates of the camps. Upon arrival at the camp the prisoners would see a railroad station, but one thing they didn’t know is that it was fake. The railroad station was just a disguise to make you feel like everything was normal, and even the clock itself was fake, it was painted on the wall to represent how endless time felt while in the concentration camp. Another decoration in Auschwitz was the Star of David stitched onto a purple curtain that was