Category: holocaust

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The Importance of Art as Resistance and Existence

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A few weeks ago, someone told me about the work of neurologist and psychologist Viktor Frankl and his time in a concentration camp duroing World War II. After the person told me about Frankl, I sought out his memoir Man’s Search for Meaning where he lays out his ideas surrounding logotherapy. Frankl explains that logotherapy, which derives from logos, the Greek word for “meaning,” “focuses on the meaning of … Read More The Importance of Art as Resistance and Existence

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The Weaponization of Words in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night”

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Earlier this year, I constructed a fascism in literature syllabus which included Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night (1962) amongst a long list of other texts. As with most of these mock syllabi, I add texts that I have not read before. Well, the other day I walked into the stacks at my library and pulled Mother Night off the shelf. I literally devoured the novel in less than a day, becoming … Read More The Weaponization of Words in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night”

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+ belonging: a german reckons with history and home, germany, graphic memoir, graphic novels, holocaust, nazi, nora krug, world war ii

Indoctrination Through Education in Nora Krug’s “Belonging”

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Nora Krug begins her graphic memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home with an anecdote about one of her first encounters in New York. On the rooftop of a friend’s apartment building, an elderly woman struck up a conversation with Krug, asking her where she was from. When Krug affirmed that she was from Germany, the woman began to relate “how she had survived … Read More Indoctrination Through Education in Nora Krug’s “Belonging”

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+ Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, germany, Hans Massaquoi, holocaust, nazi, race, world war ii

The Internal Psychosis of Nazism in Hans Massaquoi’s “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”

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Ian Kershaw’s The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich, traces the image of Hitler in Germany from the failed putsch in 1923 all the way to the regime’s demise in 1945. Kershaw points out that the historical priming for a myth in an all-powerful Führer who would save the nation, dating back to the nineteenth century. While many groups ebbed and flowed … Read More The Internal Psychosis of Nazism in Hans Massaquoi’s “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”

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+ holocaust, Mary Berg, Warsaw Ghetto, warsaw ghetto uprising, world war ii

Beauty Amongst Violence in “The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in The Warsaw Ghetto”

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve read Hans Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany and Mary Berg’s diary that she wrote during World War II, specifically living and growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto before her family’s escape to the United States in March 1944. Massaquoi’s memoir didn’t appear until 1999, and he wrote it looking backwards, after individuals suggested he document his … Read More Beauty Amongst Violence in “The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in The Warsaw Ghetto”

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