Angels of Life and Death
"I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more" (Bulow 9). These are the words of the "Angel of Life" in the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler. However, the life and light that was inside this man was not in the hearts of all European people between 1933 and 1945. Coinciding with this wonderful figure is one of the most brutal men in all of history who came to be known by many, including the Nazis, as the "Angel of Death." This man, Josef Mengele, was responsible for the unmerciful killing of a large portion of the total of eleven million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other minorities who were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust (Bulow 5). Mengele worked under the rule of Adolf Hitler who was the leader of the Nazi party. Hitler and his Nazi regime were in search of the "Final Solution"-their goal was to accomplish the complete destruction of the Jews (Chandler 35). Although the outlandish and wicked goal was not accomplished, the "Angel of Death" did manage to leave his impression on the lives
6. The Last Days. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Survivors of the SHOAH visual history foundation, 1998. True, an angel did pass Irene Zisblatt by, but another type of angel took the opposite route in his dealings with Jewish people during the Holocaust. This man, Oskar Shindler, helped aid Helen Beck from the Plaszow ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (Chandler 38). Through his work in his enamel goods factory, Shindler aided close to 1,200 Jewish people to freedom, including Helen Beck, a young Polish woman. Helen was moved to Shindler's factory in March of 1943 where she immediately was put on the work staff. Unlike the concentration camp that she had previously lived in, she described Shindler's factory as incomparable to Aushwitz-Birkenau. Shindler's factory contained exponentially better conditions than the concentration camp on account of larger barracks, superior sanitary conditions, and larger food rations (Chandler 38-39). 4. Erstein, Hap. "Nazis took away everything but her soul." The Palm Beach Post
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Approximate Word count = 1538
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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