Sentences with phrase «holocaust experiences»

Fuchs speaks publicly about her family's Holocaust experiences, has been featured in newspapers and on television, and has published numerous articles in national and international journals.

An inescapable chain of events would have us telling about our Holocaust experience even though we no longer wanted to be distinguished by our past suffering and would have preferred to be recognized for whatever we had achieved in spite of it.

Obviously, the Holocaust experience and its aftermath have had little impact on the life and thought of Christian religious groups, both mainline and sectarian.

In closely - read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, first and second generation Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity.

Not exact matches

'» The Holocaust «was the most important experience for Jews, while for Poles that experience was the loss of freedom and sovereignty.

We could discuss that work that is being done in response to the Holocaust, that which is being done in the horizon of world religions, that which is being done as an expression of the experience of oppression, as by Blacks, and so forth.

While modernity, the Holocaust, the American Jewish experience, and threats to Israel's existence have forced us to confront serious demographic concerns, oftentimes we use such issues as a veil to cover our ignorance of our own tradition.

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

As we shall see, this very insistence upon the sufficiency of intention has its counterpart in the experience of the Holocaust.

To be sure, for the Jewish people, who have experienced their fair share of forced conversions over the centuries (think the Spanish Inquisition), the suggestion that victims like Holocaust victim Anne Frank or Pearl might be baptized after death can be horribly offensive.

Only during the last two have I been made conscious of the fact that a Holocaust survivor is a distinctive kind of person, not just one who underwent a special experience, but almost a person sui generis — because the Holocaust itself was sui generis.

In our social circle, where the Holocaust had not normally been a topic of conversation, we frequently began to be asked about our experience.

The horrors experienced by some six million Jews and others in the Holocaust simply shattered all conventional claims that God will somehow «make it all right» in the end.

Every spring, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, those who died under Nazi persecution are honored in ceremonies throughout the world; and those who survived it recall what they experienced.

I Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation - states, the destruction of one - third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience.

I am the sole repository of the accumulated wisdom and experience of humanity from pre-Sumerian times to the holocaust.

No evidences from human experiences (Holocaust, hurricanes, slavery) or from other interpretations (evolutionary theory and Marxism) will ever count against the revelation whatever the content of the «ultimate purpose» might be.

Liverpool U18s captain Liam Coyle said: «It was a real privilege for the lads to be able to listen to Zigi's story to gain a better understanding of the traumatic experiences that he and the other millions of people impacted by the Holocaust went through.

From Antiquity to the Renaissance, to the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism, how does the memory of these «mnemonic signifiers» impact on the decisions taken today, and how have historical experiences shared between European countries shaped their politics?

«I need us to appreciate the collective impact of what we're saying to others — to the Native American community, to the victims of the Holocaust, to Cambodia, to Darfur, to Rwanda, to Bosnia — who did experience what that word actually is.

My mother was a hidden child during the Holocaust in French - speaking Belgium, and the experience was traumatic for her at such a young age.

The impact of the Holocaust on European Jews was not confined to the physical and psychological insults and suffering that they experienced during World War II.

Furthermore, the group directly exposed to the Holocaust that was found to be at the highest risk of developing schizophrenia included people who were born during the Holocaust (namely were in the womb during it) and experienced it afterward.

In fact, that stress hormone profile might make them more susceptible to PTSD (below, yellow); previous studies have indeed suggested that the offspring of Holocaust survivors are more vulnerable to the effects of stress and are more likely to experience symptoms of PTSD.

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

Filmmakers Danny and Jack Fisher created this straightforward documentary on their parents» experience of the Holocaust (they miraculously survived), and how that experience — as well as the holocaust itself — may have created a barrier in communication with the next geHolocaust (they miraculously survived), and how that experience — as well as the holocaust itself — may have created a barrier in communication with the next geholocaust itself — may have created a barrier in communication with the next generation.

This is, after all, a filmmaker who has cast his virtuosic eye on to past historical injustices like the Holocaust («Schindler's List «-RRB- and the aftermath of the Munich Olympics massacre («Munich «-RRB-, and who has always had a keen interest in the African American experience («The Color Purple,» «Amistad «-RRB-.

As well as talking about her experiences and thoughts on the film she discusses the memoirs she has written on the period called The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow (released after the film was in pre-production, which was based on In the Sewers of Lvov by Robert Marshall).

After Auschwitz (Unrated) Holocaust documentary belatedly recounting the trauma experienced by a half - dozen survivors who had been evacuated to the U.S. and pressured to suffer in silence without ever discussing the horrors they'd witnessed in Hitler's death camps.

Night Elie Wiesel's spare memoir - novel based on his experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

A whole Holocaust / Shoah scheme of work with videos, worksheets, wordsearches, youtube videos, embedded videos that include real survivors talking about their experience.

Although the students know they are safe — their parents are nearby throughout — they say it gives them an idea of what Jewish teenagers might have experienced during the Holocaust as they were rounded up and shipped off to camps.

Students also go through an intense experience that simulates what their counterparts endured in the Holocaust.

Students learn to: - Define key terms related to the historical context of The Holocaust; - Remember and understand key information about Anne Frank's experiences, that they learn from an engaging PowerPoint presentation; - Read extracts from Anne Frank's diary; - Answer a range of questions to demonstrate their understanding of Anne's diary; - Analyse the language features used by Anne Frank to create dramatic images in the mind of the reader; - Peer - assess each others» learning attempts.

After a particularly harrowing history visit to Auschwitz organised with the Holocaust Trust, one sixth former wrote: «Once home, I found it very difficult to reflect upon the emotive experience of Auschwitz.

The lesson has a video of a holocaust survivors talking about her experiences and will allow students to consider if the perpetrators should be forgiven or not.

As [the Holocaust survivor] shared some of her experiences with the parent group, the parents expressed interest in finding out more about the Holocaust.

Students analyse a range of sources to help collect information about the conditions and experiences of Holocaust survivors.

Technology enhances the classroom experience, and can help remind students about the Holocaust on this important day.

My experience at the Holocaust Institute for Teacher Educators (HITE) has not only solidified this belief, but it has provided me with tools to teach what I preach about Holocaust education and education in general.

A student shares how their Facing History class on the Holocaust was a tranformative experience for them.

Students read diary entries to gain insight into the experiences of Romanian Jews during the Holocaust.

This documentary explores Samuel Bak's work and life through the lens of his childhood experiences in Vilna, where he was interned with his parents during the Holocaust.

Students draw on diary entries and historical documents to gain insight into experiences of refugees during the Holocaust.

If survivors could confront such complex experiences through art, my students could use art to think through our study of the Holocaust as well.

The Art in the Face of Death activity features survivors sharing artwork and poetry they created in response to their experiences during the Holocaust.

Facing History and Ourselves knows that the experience of listening to a survivor or witness to the Holocaust can be a powerful learning experience.

Our virtual experience will enable your students to explore the rich history of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust, visit authentic memorial sites, and discuss the consequences of hatred and intolerance.

A survivor of the Holocaust, Adler later settled in England and began writing novels about his experience.