Personal Choice: Holocaust Victims/Slavery Victims Freedom is the most valuable thing in the world. It is what we get from the very moment of our appearance in this world. The other thing is how we will use our freedom. Many people dont understand the pricelessness of freedom. But those who one in a life has collided with the slavery know well the price of the freedom. The institution of slavery is as old as civilization. Many nations and empires were built by the muscles of slaves. As sad as it is but nobody denies that nowadays slavery still exists.
Some 27 million people worldwide are enslaved or work as forced laborers. That’s more people than at any other point in the history of the world.(A World Slavery) But we will try to forget about nowadays for a moment and take a look on the past. We all know about slavery in America and the following consequences. We also heard a lot about the horrors of Holocaust. What if we try to compare these two tragic episodes from humans history? Do they have some similarities? Lets start from the definitions. It will help us to clarify some things and to systematize the facts.
According to Wikipedia Slavery can mean one or more related conditions which involve control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other clear forms of coercion. Slavery almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the labour of the person or people concerned. A specific form, chattel slavery, means the legal ownership of a person or people and this is now illegal in all countries. People may be referred to as “slaves” simply because of the conditions in which they are held, rather than their legal status. Slaves have no rights, they are like the things. The Master can sell or by the slave, do whatever he wants to.
The Essay on Spanish Crown Slaves Freedom Slave
To his majesty, Charles IV, King of Spain, On behalf of my fellow brothers and myself, I address to the crown a serious conflict that needs immediate attention and closure. The continuous enslavement of blacks must end. With all due respect this is not a threat of forthcoming forced slave independence but a promise. I know that I am not the first to bring to your attention this idea. The maroons, ...
Slaves are used for hard works. They doesnt received salary, only some food for keeping them alive and strong enough for working. During the Holocaust Jews were sent at death camps (concentration camp with special apparatus specifically designed for systematic murder).
Prisoners worked on the plants and fabrics. They all were had the tattooed numbers. Slavers usually also were ciphered with the initials of their masters. Both victims of slavery and victims of Holocaust suffered from family separations.
Both victims of Holocaust and the victims of slavery had no chances for freedom. They both become nothing more that soulless living material. The Holocaust brought together all the strands of past antisemitism, connected them and produced a system devoted to the total annihilation of the Jewish people in Europe (and in other countries projected to fall under Nazi rule).
Jews were dehumanized, (by being described as “untermenschen” – subhuman), demonized, and condemned theologically. (Mark Weitzman) The main distinguished features, I think, are the following: slaves usually were people of different nationalities; they were not exterminated with such cruelty and maniacal tendency as Jews. Slaves were subjected to tortures but that tortures were nothing compare to experiments that were carried out on Jews. No slaveholder in good mind will purchase a slave only for killing him.
While six million Jews were being systematically and brutally massacred by the Nazis during WWII, most of the world stood by silent(Simon Wiesenthal Center).
I still cant understand how people can be so cruel to one another. Why some of then thinks that they are far better than the others. And what a monster a person must be for wishing to destroy the whole nation. There is no excuse for Holocaust. But I think that emotionally both victims of slavery and victims of Holocaust were deeply traumatized and shattered.
The Term Paper on Holocaust Museum Experience
The capability of the Holocaust Museum to create variety of experiences among individuals has been manifested upon my visit in the museum. The capability of the museum to be an instrument for learning and at the same time an avenue for recounting history’s sad past remains to be evident in each person’s eyes as they try to recall what transpire in those incidents. Thus, visiting the Holocaust ...
All of those who managed to survive through the death camps never became the same persons they were before. Slavery is something that crushes the human spirit. Today such groups as the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League fight against national and international antisemitism. They use programs of coalition building, political and social action, education, research, publicity and remembrance to fight racism and antisemitism. The focus on the history of antisemitism, including the creation of Museums that memorialize the Holocaust, is tied into the oft-repeated maxim of George Santanyana “Those who ignore the past are condemned to repeat it.” (Simon Wiesenthal Center) The Museum of Tolerance is a high tech experiential museum which focuses on the two sore problems: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust – the ultimate example of man’s inhumanity to man. (About the Museum of Tolerance) Museums aim is challenging the visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.
The Museum of Tolerance was opened in 1993 and since then receives 350,000 visitors annually including 110,000 children. The Museum is the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. According to his biography Simon Wiesenthal was one of the lucky few who survived the Nazi death camps of World War II. He became the world famous Nazi hunter, the conscience and voice for not only the Holocaust’s 6,000,000 Jewish victims but for the millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis as well.(About Simon Wiesenthal) The Museum became his brainchild, which will exist for many years after his death. The Museum of Tolerance has many different sections. In Holocaust section visitors are led back in time to become witnesses to the events of World War II. In the Tolerancenter visitors are able to focus on the major issues of intolerance that are part of their daily lives.
Multimedia Learning Center houses over 31 interactive computer stations, which provide each visitor an unprecedented access to the history of World War II and the Holocaust. In the Artifacts and Documents of the Holocaust section visitors can acquaint with Museum’s collection of archives and documents. Visitors have an opportunity to communicate with the victims of Holocaust. There are also museums shops and special exhibits. The Museum of Tolerance is unique. Bibliography The Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, A World Slavery, Mark Weitzman, Antisemitism: A Historical Survey, Slavery, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, The Holocaust: A Study of Genocide, Curriculum bulletin, 1978-79 ser., no.
The Essay on ''The Sunflower'' By Simon Wiesenthal
Mistakes are inevitable and sometimes these mistakes we make bring hurt onto others. Everyone has been deeply hurt at some point in their lives, possibly though a friend, a family member, or maybe even a cheating partner. How can we allow ourselves to forgive these people for all the hurt they have caused us? Wiesenthal is a Jewish victim in a Nazi concentration camp In The Sunflower who becomes ...
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