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…in developing their style. All of these men influenced me to take chances and make my writing fresh and unique. When I was in high school I wrote an essay dealing with Nazi Holocaust issues for a social studies class. When I wrote this, I decided to write in a very…

…Since the end of World War II there have been countless published memoirs by Holocaust survivors as well as those who witnessed the atrocities firsthand. "The Nazi Officer's Wife" by Edith Hahn Beer is one such memoir. While most of the available…

…. Billy Pilgrim faced such tremendous guilt, that he spent his entire life after Dresden trying to alleviate himself of it. His guilt is in many ways comparable to the guilt felt by the survivors of the Holocaust. Many Holocaust survivors had to face…

…found proof of an internal speech of Hitler's from 1941 that no other researcher had even mentioned before. The weak dictator Already Hans Mommsen, the foremost Holocaust researcher, grumbles: the young man is to be sure "exceptional," has however "gone…

…a great imagination for fiction, but was also well studied in his accounts of Freud and the Holocaust. Composed of a prologue and six sections, The White Hotel utilizes a variety of literary forms. The main characters of this novel are the celebrated…

…Ursula Hegi’s novel, Stones From The River, exposes the reader of the persecutions of religious beliefs, a gossiping dwarf, and the people of Burgdorf, a small German town in the time of the Nazi Holocaust. The novel is set in World War I and continues…

…themes that American Jews had to overcome in the times around the Holocaust. Potok was inspired to write by a book by Evelyn Waugh and “A portrait of a Young man.” Ironically, both of these were books about Catholicism. After reading these Novels, Potok…

…it to the Holocaust Memorial of Berlin. This memorial turned out to be rows of large granite blocks that looked something like tombstones. The debate over this monument was similar. People complained that its look did not commemorate those who lost their lives…

…newspaper Der Sturmer put it, "The Jewish people ought to be exterminated root and branch. Then the plague of pests would have disappeared in Poland at one stroke." (holocaust/timeline.html>) When the Nazi party took over…

…of the Holocaust. Many Holocaust survivors had to face their own 'Why me?' question. However, many Holocaust survivors were able to reconcile their feelings of guilt or put it out of their minds. This solution was never viable for Billy Pilgrim. Billy's guilt made life…