Holocaust Impact

Impact of Testimonies From The Holocaust in Literature

Introduction

Under the impression that the holocaust was a dark and devious time, some may not fully understand the importance of the journals and memoirs. Therefore, men and women set out to seek literature as an escape during this time. Not only did victims experience physical pain, but they experienced emotional pain and writing helped heal the agony. Furthermore, It’s hard to understand the insight and gory life of the genocide, but literature and statistics have helped society understand what it was like during the time of the holocaust. Victims of the holocaust put an intense amount of emotion in their journals and memoirs to help society comprehend what they were feeling. The holocaust

For example, Anne Frank is one of the most famous of all women writers during the Holocaust. Anne Frank altered literature by creating an illustration of what it’s like to hide in an annex and unable to have freedom, because of the high risk of the nazis finding Anne Frank 's family. Anne described how critical life was like during the time period. Anne lived in the diminutive annex with seven others. Anne and her family were able to hide from the Nazis for two years before being discovered. Only one of the eight survived the genocide in Anne Frank 's family. “Anne 's father, Otto Frank is the only one of the eight people to survive.” (The Story of Anne Frank: The Story in Brief, p.1). Anne wasn 't famous during the holocaust, it was until Anne’s journal was found until she became

The Nazis created “concentration camps” as designated areas for Jews and other victims. The victims lived in the concentration camps and ended up spending their last days there. Horrifyingly enough, Nazis would gather children, men, and women to take a shower and lock them into a chamber with toxic gasses that killed them. There will never be an excuse for the genocide that Hitler and the Nazis created. To this day there is a remembrance of the poor suffering lives. The victims of the holocaust will always be remembered as strong victims that were murdered by vicious monsters, the Nazis. However, victims were treated as slave laborers by construction projects, such as expanding the camps. Prisoners in the camps “were used ruthlessly and without regard to safety at forced labor, resulting in high mortality rates.” (Holocaust