Over the past few centuries, our world has stood by while thousands of people in different countries were murdered. We did not learn from our mistakes because history has repeated itself multiple times, allowing a leader with too much power to manipulate others into turning against a certain group of people. In the Armenian Genocide, Abdulhamid II was the leader who was given too much power and the Armenians were unfortunately the victims. They were targeted and killed because they were not wanted in the Ottoman Empire. In just 8 years, 1.5 million Armenians died (Whitehorn). This genocide was very similar to the Holocaust and the torture of the Jews, demonstrated in Night by Elie Wiesel. In 12 years, millions and millions of Jews were murdered …show more content…
To start off, both the Armenians and the Jews were dehumanized and thought of as an inferior race. They were looked down upon and treated like animals. The people who were against the Jews and the Armenians did not care what happened to them. Most of the time they would either be worked to death or murdered. Albert Ward talked about how the Armenians were mistreated in his book, Critical World Issues: Genocide. They were persecuted for their beliefs, and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, younger males were placed in labor camps after they were checked for weapons. Here they were either worked to death or killed (Ward 46). The Ottoman Empire did not care what happened to the Armenians because they thought they were inferior to them. Similarly, during the Holocaust, the Germans treated the Jews like animals, and they forced the Jews to do whatever they wanted, or else they got killed. Elie Wiesel demonstrated this when he had described what it was like to be controlled by people whose mindset was to kill you. He especially described how the Jews were treated when they were forced to march from camp to camp. …show more content…
These two groups of people were targeted and killed because it was believed that if they died, the world would be a better place. The Jews were forced to do greuling and demanding work that shortened the lives of many. Millions of Jews were murdered by machine guns they had built and then placed in the holes they had dug before. These holes that they dug were referred to as mass graves. (Wiesel 2). After all of the work the Jews did, they were killed by the weapons they created and they were buried in the graves they dug. Although the Armenians did not dig their own graves, The Turks decided that to solve their problem by attempting to murder all of the Armenians (Ward 46). Furthermore, when both the Jews and the Armenians marched from place to place, they barely had any food or supplies to live off of. They were given the bare minimum and they were not expected to live long. On some occasions, a worker would take some bread and throw the crumbs into a wagon full of starving Jews. Each time the Jews fought desperately over the bread, while the worker just sat back and watched (Wiesel 100). The workers who did this were mocking the Jews by showing them that they can eat whenever they wanted while the Jews starved. Similarly, many people died when the Armenians were gathered up and forced to march long distances from their
“And so he remained for more than a half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was red, his eyes not yet extinguished (p. 65).” A child is hung and millions of Jewish people are forced to not only walk by him, but stare at him and try to learn a lesson on attempting to get an extra serving of bread.
(?) Just because they were Jews they were tormented, starved, and even killed. Every Jew was considered an outsider or outcast in Germany and the horrific experience they went through was all because of their religion. This proves that being declared an outcast by society can be a punishing experience because of the torture that the Jews had to go through from the point of view of Adolf Hitler, who viewed them as
They were murdered in either massacre and individual killings, or from systematic ill-treatment, exposure, and starvation. In the novel Forgotten Fire, the main social issue, the Armenian Genocide, compares to the Holocaust as they both were caused by a hatred of a specific race, they both resulted in extreme violence and immense casualties, and they both had many heroes who made considerable sacrifices on behalf of those being persecuted. The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide were sparked by the hatred of a specific minority race, the Jews, and the Armenians. The leaders of the countries involved in genocides often promoted them and contribute to the heinous crimes.
His treatment of the prisoners goes to show how little he thinks they are human and how the Nazis give him unchecked power. Power that he is able to abuse to his will and use however he pleases against the poor disheveled
The Holocaust’s killing method was to tell the children and elderly men and women they were going to take a shower. Instead, the “shower” was a gas chamber that the Jews had been tricked to go into. This relates to all killing methods in every genocide. The Turks, leading the Armenian Genocide, had their own killing methods. One of their killing methods they did to exterminate Armenian people were death marches.
The Jewish Holocaust saw this by hate propaganda which “encouraged passivity and acceptance of the impending measures against Jews, as these appeared to depict the Nazi government as stepping in and restoring order.” (United States Holocaust Museum). The Assyrians were dehumanized by being impoverished by the Ottoman Empire (Uzay Bulut). The Holocaust dehumanization was much worse and very different from the Assyrian genocide. But the organization of both genocides share more similarities by both being done by a form of government being the Nazis for the Holocaust and the Ottoman Empire for the Assyrians.
They were tortured and murdered even children. His book Night Elie Wiesel explore several themes of the Holocaust including dehumanization loss of Rights and lots of Hope. The Jews have lost their rights by having to give up their things to being told how to live their lives and even losing themselves. The Jews had to hand over all their valuables to the authorities.
They were discriminated against, blamed for the war and on top of that millions of innocent people were killed off. They were forced to live in concentration camps. No law or money could help them, they were all alone. Hitler’s views were brought in an early age. The Jewish people to him were just pawns on a chessboard.
Survivors of many different genocides find uncanny similarities within their experiences. Elie Wiesel writes about his experiences growing up as a Jewish boy during the Holocaust in his memoir titled Night, which can be compared to numerous other historical events that happened to other groups of people. Many of the incidents described by Wiesel correlate with the horrific actions the Christian Armenians experienced during their persecution in 1915. The two minorities were severely mistreated and victimized by their perpetrators in similar ways, which makes these two genocides comparable. In fact, there have been suspicions that Adolf Hitler himself based some of his strategies off of tactics used in the Armenian Genocide.
Kamalpreet Kaur 10/25/2015 2nd period English 11 Final Draft Essay Night by Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust memoir about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30th, 1928. On December 10, 1986, in the Oslo City Hall, Norway, Elie Wiesel delivered The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech. Elie Wiesel is a messenger to a variety of mankind survivors from The Holocaust talked about their experiences in the camps and their struggle with faith through the
The Jews were organized by the Schutzstaffel or the members of the SS army (Wiesel) . The Armenians were Put into groups by turkish officials that captured and raided houses. Both atrocities: the Holocaust and Armenian genocide were similar in their third and fourth stages of Dehumanization and
All the genocides have one thing in common which to eliminate a certain group for stupid untrue reasons, with only the motives being different. The Holocaust might be the most documented genocide but like all other genocides such as Bosnian and Bangladesh genocide, equally evil and heinous to the full max. In this essay, will be compared the Nazi Holocaust and Bosnian genocide. Like all genocides, the two genocides has extremely high number of people killed, tortured and put under evil actions. The motives behind the Holocasut were to create a “perfect race” which is the Aryan race in the world by eliminating the ones that are not, jews being inhuman and other races being sub-humans in the eyes of the Nazi.
Primarily, the Holocaust differs from that of the Armenian genocide because their overall acceptance and knowledge by the world. For example, the Holocaust is known and accepted by the vast majority of people throughout the world; in some countries it is even a law to deny the Holocaust took place. On the other hand, even to this day the Turkish government is reluctant to accept the fact that the Armenian genocide occurred. Furthermore, differences can be found in the lifestyle of the Armenians and that of the Jews. During the Holocaust, Jews were often forced to live in ghettos and had many laws which gave them less rights than other non-Jewish people.
The Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th century, resulted in a major exodus of nearly an entire population. This event is still largely ignored by the Turkish government, those responsible for the horrific incident that led to the deaths and deportations of millions of Armenians. Throughout the late 19th century and early 20th century, Armenians were pushed from their native origins in Turkey as a result of a brutal genocide, which consequently led to their escape to the United States to seek a better life through economic opportunities and avoiding persecution. Armenians experienced push factors to immigrate to America through the opportunity of a better life as well as the influx of new economic prospects. In the 16th century,
During this time the Armenians were treated unfair and unequal. The Armenian Christians had to pay higher taxes and had few legal rights(“Armenian Genocide”). Just like the Armenian Genocide, the Jewish holocaust began in the early 1900’s. Unlike Armenia, Germany was not taken over. Hitler was given power by the people of Germany.