Pogrom

known that this event has brought roughly 200 children to Harwich, Great Britain. These children were children who had lived in a certain orphanage which was located in Berlin, unfortunately, the orphanage had been destroyed during the Kristallnacht Pogrom and Great Britain had decided to lend a hand and help these children. The kinder who were transported were divided into two groups, kinder with sponsors and kinder without sponsors. The Kinder without sponsors were sent to summer holiday…

Wiesel struggled to find a time and place where he could set the play and so, he searched for an event that would have been devastating to a Jewish community, but not on the scale of the Holocaust. He selected Eastern Europe in 1649, where a series of pogroms associated with the Khmelnytsky Uprising had occurred which devastated Jewish villages and communities of the time. While it is not set in the Holocaust, scholars feel that it is to a degree a commentary on the potential mindset of those…

death and often featured crowds of hating and condemning Jews (Boston Globe, 2004). According to The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the world’s first leading group fighting anti-Semitism, these plays were source of hate that led to various attacks – pogroms – on Europe’s Jewish communities.…

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its followers. Alfred Munzer was a kid who survived The Holocaust. Alfred was born on November 23, 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands. Alfred survived the Holocaust because he was rescued by an Indonesian family living in the Netherlands. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2017) At the annual party rally…

More than 60 years ago, the State of Israel was created following a United Nations resolution. Immediately after its establishment until today, the country and its neighbors have experienced a terrible conflict. Yet, opportunities to expect a stabilization or peace have already been presented. Several factors have combined their effects to give birth to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the creation of the State of Israel and the Nakba, which constituted a crucial moment. At the end of…

In the early 1800s, nationalism would start to spread across Europe along with industrialization. Nationalism is showing love and devotion for one’s country, specifically, in places like Prussia and Italy at the time. Unification was brought most in part by nationalism and industrialization. Language and religion kept people divided, but also could bring them together. Multinational empires were common in Europe, especially in Russia and Italy. Many different things would impact whether…

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth once was a large kingdom. Its political problems began in 1654-1667 when Bogdon Chelmenytsky, a Cossack, pledged to Russia, devastated the kingdom. Just prior to its division among Russia, Prussia, and Austria, Poland's Jewish population reached 430,000 (excluding Eastern Galicia). In Lithuania, there were 157,300 Jews. History of the Jewish People. The economic breakdown in the Commonwealth in the second half of the 17th century has often been seen as a…

People often forget how much God is in control of. Many come to believe that the events in their life happened by chance and thus, are in need of constant reminders of His sovereignty and His power over all of their situations. Although in the book of Esther, God’s name was never directly mentioned, His presence was clearly demonstrated. Though it might seemed as if her beauty was what made King Ahasuerus choose her, God had purposely meant for Esther to earn the king’s affection and become…

see that these brutalities are exposed to the people all of the time, the leaders of countries are manipulating stories, and people think they do not think they have to worry about crimes that occur far from them. To begin, brutalities, such as pogroms, are exposed to the people in so many ways. For example, almost all young boys play video games,…

In a day and age when we hear “Russia” and “fake news” in every other news cast, it is shocking that one of the worst cases of propaganda and fake news has yet to be totally publically accepted. Known as “Holodomor” the Ukrainian genocide continues to be one of Russian dirtiest, well kept secret. Starting in the late 20’s the with mass arrests and deportations, it culminated with a man-made famine from 1932-1933, it is believed that Stalin was able to kill between 7 to 14 million Ukrainian…