Holocaust  (tagged articles)

Genocide Memorialization in the Modern Era: Communal Mourning Through Institutions and Culture

Emily Bennett - Genocide Memorialization focuses on the community after a genocide in what they choose to remember and how they achieve that goal of memorialization. Memorialization efforts are museums, institutions, policy, law, education, documentaries and first person accounts... Keep Reading »

On Obedience as Identity: Milgram and the Banality of Evil

Lukas Holschuh - Attempting to find scientific explanations for the Holocaust (Russell, 2011), Milgram designed the experiment to test ordinary people’s susceptibility to authority. Subjects were instructed to administer increasingly strong electric shocks via a specially designed... Keep Reading »

Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland as a Commentary on the Holocaust

Molly E. Meadows - Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a conscious mix of genres and themes combined to present an engaging story. Subconsciously, the focus of this piece is the trauma of World War II and the Holocaust. The entire work is a commentary... Keep Reading »

The Holocaust in Romania: The Extermination and Protection of the Jews Under Antonescu's Regime

Christopher J. Kshyk - Marshal Ion Antonescu,[2] military dictator of Romania from 1940-1944, advocated a policy of ethnic cleansing to purify the Romanian nation no less radical than Hitler’s own racial ideology. Unlike most of Hitler’s erstwhile allies, who in practice were... Keep Reading »

Retelling the Stories of the Holocaust in 'Shoah' and 'Maus': Distorted Images of a Monstrous Past

Jeremy S. Page - An artist, especially one who works with the visual media, is bound to come across obstacles in his creation of a work that represents or recollects images of the Shoah (i.e., the Holocaust). Precisely how does one represent an almost industrial genocide on such an... Keep Reading »
 
 

The keyword Holocaust is tagged in the following 13 articles.

Genocide
2020, Vol. 12 No. 12
Genocide Memorialization in the Modern Era: Communal Mourning Through Institutions and Culture
By Emily Bennett
Genocide Memorialization focuses on the community after a genocide in what they choose to remember and how they achieve that goal of memorialization. Memorialization efforts are museums, institutions, policy, law, education, documentaries and first... Read Article »
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Social Psychology
2015, Vol. 7 No. 11
On Obedience as Identity: Milgram and the Banality of Evil
By Lukas Holschuh
Attempting to find scientific explanations for the Holocaust (Russell, 2011), Milgram designed the experiment to test ordinary people’s susceptibility to authority. Subjects were instructed to administer increasingly strong electric shocks... Read Article »
Social Psychology Milgram Experiments Obedience Authority Conformity Holocaust
Holocaust
2015, Vol. 7 No. 03
Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland as a Commentary on the Holocaust
By Molly E. Meadows
Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a conscious mix of genres and themes combined to present an engaging story. Subconsciously, the focus of this piece is the trauma of World War II and the Holocaust. The entire... Read Article »
Trauma Holocaust Murakami World War II
The Holocaust
2014, Vol. 6 No. 12
The Holocaust in Romania: The Extermination and Protection of the Jews Under Antonescu's Regime
By Christopher J. Kshyk
Marshal Ion Antonescu,[2] military dictator of Romania from 1940-1944, advocated a policy of ethnic cleansing to purify the Romanian nation no less radical than Hitler’s own racial ideology. Unlike most of Hitler’s erstwhile allies,... Read Article »
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Holocaust
2011, Vol. 3 No. 04
Representing History in Art Spiegelman's Maus II
By Derek D. Miller
When representing an idea, it is important to realize that a representation is much different from the original idea and can never fully grasp its complexities. It is also important to remember that it is impossible to not represent the concept... Read Article »
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The Holocaust
2011, Vol. 3 No. 02
Primo Levi's Use of Poetic Language to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding in "Survival in Auschwitz"
By Kristina S. Ten
Though the Holocaust ended nearly a lifetime ago, the systematic extermination of two- thirds of Europe’s Jewish population has left immutable memories that continue to manifest themselves within each new generation of citizens worldwide.... Read Article »
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The Holocaust
2011, Vol. 3 No. 01
Retelling the Stories of the Holocaust in 'Shoah' and 'Maus': Distorted Images of a Monstrous Past
By Jeremy S. Page
An artist, especially one who works with the visual media, is bound to come across obstacles in his creation of a work that represents or recollects images of the Shoah (i.e., the Holocaust). Precisely how does one represent an almost industrial... Read Article »
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The Holocaust
2010, Vol. 2 No. 09
Logotherapy and the Holocaust: Uniting Human Experience in Extremity and Normality
By Ryan A. Piccirillo
The Holocaust created a new type of person en masse: survivors. Those who survived were forced to cope with a first-hand encounter with the human capacity for evil. For the Holocaust survivor, the struggle to live continued long after liberation... Read Article »
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The Holocaust
2010, Vol. 2 No. 09
The Sobibor Revolt: "Death to the Fascists"
By Ryan A. Piccirillo
Between 1942 and 1943, 250,000 innocent Jews were systematically murdered at the Nazi death camp Sobibor (Blatt). An underground movement, composed of a select few courageous individuals, plotted and executed a plan of escape to avoid the otherwise... Read Article »
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The Holocaust
2010, Vol. 2 No. 09
The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany
By Ryan A. Piccirillo
The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the gas chambers during the Holocaust. Historians and social scientists often attribute this moral failure to the blissfully... Read Article »
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The Holocaust
2010, Vol. 2 No. 03
Moral Adaptation in Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz"
By Ryan A. Piccirillo
The Holocaust proved that morality is adaptable in extreme circumstances.  Traditional morality ceased to be so within the barbed wire of the concentration camps. Within the camps, prisoners were not treated like humans and therefore adapted... Read Article »
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World War II
2010, Vol. 2 No. 01
The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
By Brian Richards
Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and history into five segments... Read Article »
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Genocide
2009, Vol. 1 No. 12
An Argument for Outlawing Genocide Denial
By Marissa B. Goldfaden
More than half a century ago, famed philosopher George Santayana observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In the 20th century alone, the world bore witness to the Holocaust in Europe, as well as genocide... Read Article »
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