Pogrom

The idea of separation of race is deeply ingrained in our society not only today, but has been since the beginning of our country. The separating of American citizens based on the color of their skin rather than who they are and what they stand for. This has caused several clashes of culture and ideals, seen today by the Black Lives Matter movement and the waves in mass media it is creating. This all started in the United States infancy. The “founding fathers” of America while preaching that all…

Furthermore, due to influence the country held, there was a moral obligation to use every resource available to provide a safe haven. Violence and persecution toward the Jews had begun in Germany before the Holocaust had begun particularly with the pogroms that began after the annexation of Austria (13). The U.S. could have easily filled the existing immigration quotas without changing any of the laws (13). However, the government was far more occupied with the reelection of Roosevelt, and…

believed that Israel had the right to be a country. Although Meir’s journey for peace was evident, she was unsuccessful in the end. Meir was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1898, and by 1905, her family had moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin because of the Kishinev pogrom that had killed over 100 Jews. Once Meir reached high school, she joined a Zionist…

In his speech The Perils of Indifference, Elie Wiesel, a man of Jewish descent who lived through the holocaust, adjured President Bill Clinton, along with his wife Hillary Clinton and a joint session of congress. Throughout the piece Wiesel stuck to a single theme with a grim determination born of experience: to constantly be aware of and fight evil. The speech reads as a piece of persuasion, dedicated to convincing both the legislative and executive branches of the United States’…

The Survivors Taduesz Borowski’s “Silence” occurred in a concentration camp. In this story, the prisoners were able to implement their revenge against a German soldier by “tramping him to death” (641). “I assure you that the guilty will be punished, in this camp as well as in all the others” (641), despite of the reassurance that was provided to them by an American soldier they still continued to pursue their plan by attaining justice with their own hands. All the glimpse of hope they had were…

Kristallnacht, the night of terror, The Night of Broken Glass. Homes, businesses, lives and entire livelihoods were lost. The Nazi soldiers marched through the streets, hundreds of them. Some of them didn’t show any emotion, they looked menacing. The soldiers had weapons of total devastation at their fingertips. There was a Resistance that had charged from nowhere. From that point on the Nazi’s weren’t having it. They fought back they actually killed most of the people that had attacked them.…

He had his Minister of the Interior, who was Vyacheslav Plehve, secretly organize the Jewish Pogroms (Russian for the Disaster/Destruction). Plehve would also carry out the Czar’s orders to get rid of liberal newspapermen and conspirators against the crown. Nicholas also created the Duma in response to Bloody Sunday, but a majority of the power still…

On average the “American Dream” is the same concept for everyone, success for them and their future children, a home, and freedom from oppression. However, besides those same concepts, the idea differs for various people. For example, for most Hispanic immigrants their “American dream” is to gain an awarding life for not only themselves but for their family and culture. While for Middle Eastern immigrants their “dream” is to have a good and safe life away from war with their families. Looking…

INTRODUCTION The Holocaust was a devastating event which has forever affected the world. It destroyed the lives of all those involved, whether they survived or not. It changed their perception of war as the real truth about the brutality that takes place was brought to light and confronted. The effects the holocaust had on people then compared to now, 70 years later, still holds startling similarities. The lifelong struggles the survivors experience everyday is unimaginable, and the loss of…

Digging through the trunk filled with family relics I stumbled upon my great grandfather Shmuel’s journal entries. His entries detailed the October Revolution, End of World War I and the events spanning across the next fifteen years before he came to America with his family in search of a better life. Some background information on who my great grandfather Shmuel was. My great grandfather Shmuel a Jewish farmer living in Eastern Russia, now a part of modern day Ukraine, however, he will call…