“When trying to determine a novel’s place within the canon we have to determine whether its message and themes deal with fundamental concepts or understandings about the world or offer a unique perspective or opinion on our humanity. What we are asking is‚ does this piece of writing matter? If there is any novel which might fit this criteria‚ Schindler’s Ark would certainly be a candidate. The novel portrays in graphic details the atrocities of the Holocaust‚ an event in history when the Nazis
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is shown as an accidental hero‚ who joins the partisans when he finds and joins some prisoners planning an escape. His adventures with the partisans enable him to become a hero. He is the one who persuades the rest to attempt to save some of the Chelmno victims - and thus is responsible for helping save Gemma‚ the Ksiezniczka. Eventually‚ when Gemma’s young husband Aron has died and she is pregnant‚ Josef helps her escape. Sleeping Beauty had a curse put on her by a mean old Fairy that she would
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around one woman’s Holocaust experience and intermixed with the classic fairy-tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. Yolen’s uses of classic fairy-tale elements such as a prince and the curse of a long sleep are used to connect us to the horrors of the death camp Chelmno. The result is a story that is fresh and shocking as it tears away any of the numbness one may feel for another account of a Holocaust survivor. Suddenly the fairy-tale ideas of rescue and evil are invested with modern connotations. Jane Yolen takes
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Most of the camps were constructed near railways which was mainly how the prisoners arrived at the camps. Other times prisoners were forced to endure a long trek on foot to the camps. Many of the infamous concentration camps resided in Poland. Chelmno‚ being one of the well-known camps‚ was known for its operation of three gas vans used for extermination. It used carbon monoxide and had the capacity to murder up to twelve thousand prisoners within a period of two days. Auschwitz was another infamous
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Many lives suffered during the holocaust ‚ from different chances of dying in the concentration camps. From Gas chambers‚ execution‚ and starvation. The main easier way to kill wew gas chambers‚ gas chambers were invented in February 8 1924‚ According to (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16700249)BBC; “How did people die in the holocaust”‚ in the United states and were used for death rows. Gas chambers in the holocaust were originally used in 1941 in extermination camps in order to kill quicker
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while saying this statement allows the readers to think that Gemma could be the baby girl in the fairytale. Also “A great mist will cover the castle and everyone will die” symbolises the holocaust that Gemma and the other partisans have faced in Chelmno. “Mist” symbolises the exhaust gas that the Nazis used when prosecuting the innocent victims of the holocaust. The curse shows the brutality of human as it represents the Nazi’s prosecution in Yolen’s novel. Yolen has also included “kiss of life”
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different types of camps‚ transit camps forced labor of work camps and extermination camps. A concentration camp is a death camp or a mass murder camp. This camp is a place where you got taken and had a form of murder Six camps called Auschwitz‚ belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobibor‚ Treblinka‚ All were located in poland. The german extreme or death camps and killing centers were designed and built by nazi germany during world war 2 1935-1945 to systematically kill millions of jews‚ slavs‚‚ communists and
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The United States never made the rescue of the Jews a priority‚ during World War II. Even with ongoing persecution of Jews‚ the State Department of the United States made it almost impossible for Jewish Refugees to enter into the States. The hardships brought on by the depression‚ was one of the deciding factors towards the attitude of the State department. In 1924‚ the US congress passed a law that further restricted the number of entry visas. They were restricted further‚ when the American consuls
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In its gas chambers‚ the SS killed tens of thousands of Jews‚ primarily forced laborers too weak to work. The SS and police killed at least 152‚000 people‚ mostly Jews‚ but also a few thousand Roma (Gypsies)‚ in gas vans at the Chelmno killing center about thirty miles northwest of Lodz. In the spring of 1942‚ Himmler designated Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) as a killing facility. SS authorities murdered approximately one million Jews from various European countries at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Melanie Pretko Mrs. Tarsitano Grade 8 Language Arts April‚ 11 2014 The Holocaust was a very tragic event for the Gypsies‚ Homosexuals‚ Polish‚ and especially the Jews. It was a genocide focused towards the Jews‚ and run by the Nazi’s. The Holocaust took place from 1933-1945 during that time millions of people died. The worst thing about the Holocaust was the concentration camps‚ and the propaganda that was made to be used against the Jews. The concentration camps were brutal and the Nazis
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