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Compare And Contrast The Holocaust And Ptsd

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Holocaust and PTSD PTSD is a serious mental disorder that can affect anyone's life. If you have experienced any major event that has caused you a lot of stress, anxiety, depression, or similar symptoms, then you could be suffering from PTSD. Not only is it those who were in the war who are affected, but most Americans today suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. ("PTSD: A Historical Perspective") Returning home from concentration camps citizens were harassed, taunted, and shunned from society for their Jewish lifestyle. Those who still believed in the heinous customs were the reason why so many had to leave home and flee to surrounding countries. After the Jews were liberated from their prisons, returning to normal life wasn't the easiest. …show more content…

PTSD and mental health wasn’t a well-known topic at this time, so people would think once you fall behind you stay behind. Everyone knows that one grandma or grandpa who is tough and confidently expresses their past lives and how they truly had to survive. "For many, many subsequent hours I listened and I learned. About the tremendously varied experiences of'survivors', for instance, and that human beings cannot be reduced to one period of their lives, even though it might have been the determining one. About the strength of mind and spirit in sometimes frail bodies"(“Life After the Holocaust”). This shows us how strong our minds can be, once we are determined, like how they were determined to survive. Again, these survivors were forced to shove the past behind them to live. They had to give up a chance to heal themselves and instead, focus on others and growing their families. Every survivor of the Holocaust has suffered from PTSD and severe trauma, the extraneous torture they were put through for what they believe was inhumane from any view you see it

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Strength overcomes weakness People have to have something to believe in during tough times otherwise they will not be able to survive. During the holocaust, many Jewish people were stripped of their clothes, identities, and basic human rights. Survivors of the Holocaust often talk about something they found to be able to keep them alive. They often talk about if they didn't have that source of strength or perseverance they would not be here today.

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Imagine being a jewish person in one of the deadliest wars. How would you survive? How would the news of the war affect you? For many people this isn’t just a question, it's a reality. Like in the book Maus where it follows Vladek and his attempt to keep him and his family alive during the Holocaust or in the poem “Often a Minute,” hearing the news about the Holocaust and seeing all the new people joining in.

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Many people don’t like to think about it, but it is an important event to remember so that we don’t let it happen again. Two pieces of literature that explore the idea of wanting to remember the holocaust to not repeat it are Maus by Art Spiegelman and Often a Minute by Magdalena Klein. These texts describe events and feelings surrounding the holocaust and help support the idea of teaching about it to stop it from happening again. Another theme these passages present is persevering even when times are tough. The ideas, scenes, stanzas, tone, and sentences presented in these two compositions

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Eva Kor and Elie Wiesel, two survivors of the Holocaust, were also activists within the Jewish community. They were known outside of their communities for spreading inspirational speeches and ideologies to heal and overcome the experiences of the Holocaust. Even though Eva Kor and Elie Wiesel’s ideas and motivations were different, they had the same effect on people in and outside of their communities. After all, they were both able to leave lasting impressions on the world. Elie Wiesel focused on telling his story, and describing how he survived the traumatic event through his memoir, Night, that demonstrated his perseverance through the Holocaust.

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The Effects of PTSD on WWII POWs During World War II, thousands of American soldiers were captured and taken into Japanese prisoner of war camps. These POWs were subjected to terrible treatment and horrible conditions. Their environments were so terrible that many World War II POWs have developed post-traumatic stress disorder, a disease which affects their postwar lives in drastic ways. An example of this being Louis Zamperini, a WWII POW who spent nearly 2 years being tortured and abused in POW camps in Japan, his story recorded by Laura Hillenbrand in Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. After the war, Zamperini suffered from PTSD and alcoholism due to his abuse, which nearly destroyed him.

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This shows that even though the people in the holocaust are going through hard times they still have beliefs in god which motivates them to keep

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“The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, Romani people, the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.” With all this horror going on, the innocent people who were trapped in these camps tried their best to keep their faith in God and find hope in times of despair. A Book that shows finding hope in times of despair is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book summarizes the Holocaust and the innocent people trying to find hope and keep their faith in God. The Memoir Night has numerous examples of finding hope in dark times.

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After the very traumatic events that the Holocaust survivors experienced, many started to feel guilty because they survived and so many millions died. This long-lasting feeling of guilt is called Holocaust Syndrome. Holocaust Syndrome is also very similar to PTSD with its effects on the person. Holocaust Syndrome, better known as survivor’s guilt, is a common, long-lasting psychological illness that comes after experiencing a traumatic event. Holocaust Syndrome is caused by one experiencing a very traumatic event, usually involving death.

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The book leaves me wanting more, leaves me heartbroken, and leaves me seeking answers. When reflecting on this book, I can also reflect on other Holocaust survivors and their stories.

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No amount of happiness or hope could bring back their father, nor anyone else who’s died in the Holocaust. It wasn’t a time of perseverance, nor was it a time to look back and sugar-coat anything that’s ever happened in this event. The

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(70). This tells us not only about the veterans, but it teaches us about how they lived. Knowing these stories is the first step to truly remembering them. We can not honor these people if we don’t remember them, if we don’t know what they went through. Memoirs like this help show people the truly terrible things that happened to the human race.

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This is not to say that they did not feel the effects of the war. It is now important for people to understand the consequences of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is very important to remember. Taking the accounts for those who have survived the abuse of concentrations camps, is the best way to get an idea of the severity of the time.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in The Things They Carried During the turbulent times of the Vietnam War, thousands of young men entered the warzone and came face-to-face with unimaginable scenes of death, destruction, and turmoil. While some perished in the dense Asian jungles, others returned to American soil and were forced to confront their lingering combat trauma. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried provides distinct instances of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and reveals the psychological trauma felt by soldiers in the Vietnam War. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD for short, is the most common mental illness affecting soldiers both on and off the battlefield.

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The Holocaust was an immoral machination orchestrated by the Nazi’s to eliminate any person who did not meet their criteria of a human. Millions were interned in camps all around Europe. Each person who survived the Holocaust has a different story. Within Elie Wiesel’s Night (2006) and the movie “Life is Beautiful” (2000) two different perspectives on the Holocaust are presented to audiences both however deal with the analogous subjects faced by prisoners. Inside both works you can find the general mood of sadness.

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One of the darkest moments of history was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time where the Nazis attempted to annihilate the Jewish people. Of all the Jewish people that survived, some told their children and the world what happened to them during the war. One family, the Spiegelman, wrote a novel called ¨Maus¨ which tells their story and the importance of survival. In the novel ¨Maus¨, the author, Art Spiegelman, depicts the importance of survival by using literary devices such as point of view, imagery, and tragedy.

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