Study Guide The Sunflower By Simon Wiesenthal Supersummary

Author : SuperSummary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1798607417

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Study Guide: the Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal (SuperSummary) by SuperSummary Pdf

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 61-page guide for "The Sunflower" by Simon Wiesenthal includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 54 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Forgiveness and Repentance (Teshuvah).

Author : Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307560421

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The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal Pdf

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.

Author : QuickRead,Lea Schullery
Publisher : QuickRead.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal (Summary) by QuickRead,Lea Schullery Pdf

Do you want more free books like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. Come along on a Holocaust survivor’s quest to answer the questions surrounding the forgiveness of a Nazi soldier. Imagine that while experiencing the atrocities of living in a concentration camp, you become confronted with a dying Nazi soldier’s request for forgiveness. Could you forgive a person who played a role in the systematic killing of millions of innocent people? While holding his hand and listening to confessions of the crimes against your own people, many others outside are suffering from starvation, working to death, and being led into gas chambers. Simon Wiesenthal experienced such a scenario during his time at a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, and he has since been plagued with the question: to forgive or not to forgive? Of course, he has lived with the decision that he made at that moment, but his experience has inspired him to seek answers from others. By speaking with more than 50 people from different walks of life, ranging from religious leaders to fellow genocide survivors, Wiesenthal seeks to answer if he made the right decision. As you read, learn about a dying Nazi’s search for repentance, how Wiesenthal reacts when face-to-face with a murderer, and lastly, why practicers of Judaism believe murderers cannot be forgiven.

Author : Ronnie S. Landau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857728586

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The Nazi Holocaust by Ronnie S. Landau Pdf

The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts - Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - Landau penetrates to the very heart of its moral and historical significance. Deeply concerned lest the Holocaust, as a 'unique' phenomenon, be cordoned off from the rest of human history and ghettoized within the highly charged realm of 'Jewish experience', he is at pains to show that transmitting understanding of the Holocaust is about connecting with all humanity.Intended both for the general reader and for students and academics (especially in history, psychology, literature and the humanities), this work is an important breakthrough in the struggle to perpetuate the memory of a tragedy which the world is all too ready to forget.

Author : Mark Sakamoto
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443417990

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Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country overseas. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her family and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Like many young Canadian soldiers, Ralph was captured by the Japanese army. He would spend the war in prison camps, enduring pestilence, beatings and starvation, as well as a journey by hell ship to Japan to perform slave labour, while around him his friends and countrymen perished. Back in Canada, Mitsue and her family were expelled from their home by the government and forced to spend years eking out an existence in rural Alberta, working other people's land for a dollar a day. By the end of the war, Ralph emerged broken but a survivor. Mitsue, worn down by years of back-breaking labour, had to start all over again in Medicine Hat, Alberta. A generation later, at a high school dance, Ralph's daughter and Mitsue's son fell in love. Although the war toyed with Ralph's and Mitsue's lives and threatened to erase their humanity, these two brave individuals somehow surmounted enormous transgressions and learned to forgive. Without this forgiveness, their grandson Mark Sakamoto would never have come to be.

Author : R. J. Palacio
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593487785

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White Bird: A Wonder Story (A Graphic Novel) by R. J. Palacio Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson! R. J. Palacio’s unforgettable graphic novel debut is a story about the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war. SYDNEY TAYLOR AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. Sara's harrowing experience movingly demonstrates the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives. As Grandmère tells Julian, "It always takes courage to be kind, but in those days, such kindness could cost you everything." With poignant symbolism and gorgeous artwork that brings Sara's story out of the past and cements it firmly in this moment in history, White Bird is sure to captivate anyone who was moved by the book Wonder or the blockbuster movie adaptation and its message. Praise for White Bird: "At once expressive and chaste, an elusive but ideal combination." —New York Times "A story that shows the impact of the Second World War and the rise of fascism on what had been a pastoral, fairy-tale childhood, with White Bird pulling no punches in connecting that historical moment to what’s happening in the world today." —The Hollywood Reporter “Extraordinarily powerful.... White Bird does not shrink from depicting the terror and violence of the Nazi occupation for younger readers, and respects the ability of those readers to handle strong material.” —Forbes "A must-read graphic novel that is both heart-rending and beautifully hopeful." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "R.J. Palacio brings to life the nature of heroism and the real risks we face today." —Meg Medina, Newbery award-winning author of Mercy Suarez Changes Gears "Rare, superb, timely, and timeless." —Mark Siegel, author of the 5 Worlds graphic novel series

Author : Dieter Schlesak
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429958928

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The Druggist of Auschwitz by Dieter Schlesak Pdf

Dieter Schlesak's haunting novel The Druggist of Auschwitz—beautifully translated from the German by John Hargraves—is a frighteningly vivid portrayal of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of criminal and victim alike. Adam, known as "the last Jew of Schäßburg," recounts with disturbing clarity his imprisonment at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Through Adam's fictional narrative and excerpts of actual testimony from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963–65, we come to learn of the true-life story of Dr. Victor Capesius, who, despite strong friendships with Jews before the war, quickly aided in and profited from their tragedy once the Nazis came to power. Interspersed with historical research and the author's face-to-face interviews with survivors, the novel follows Capesius from his assignment as the "sorter" of new arrivals at Auschwitz—deciding who will go directly to the gas chamber and who will be used for labor—through his life of lavish wealth after the war to his arrest and eventual trial. Schlesak's seamless incorporation of factual data and testimony—woven into Adam's dreamlike remembrance of a world turned upside down—makes The Druggist of Auschwitz a vital and unique addition to our understanding of the Holocaust.

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061748110

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The Misunderstood Jew by Amy-Jill Levine Pdf

In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.

Author : Victor Klemperer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826491305

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Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer Pdf

Victor Klemperer was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. Presenting a study of language and its engagement with history, this book draws form Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture.

Author : Susan Griffin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781504012218

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A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffin Pdf

A brilliant and provocative exploration of the interconnection of private life and the large-scale horrors of war and devastation. A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award, Susan Griffin’s A Chorus of Stones is an extraordinary reevaluation of history that explores the links between individual lives and catastrophic, world-altering violence. One of the most acclaimed and poetic voices of contemporary American feminism, Griffin delves into the perspective of those whose personal relationships and family histories were profoundly influenced by war and its often secret mechanisms: the bomb-maker and the bombing victim, the soldier and the pacifist, the grand architects who were shaped by personal experience and in turn reshaped the world. Declaring that “each solitary story belongs to a larger story”—and beginning with the brutal and heartbreaking circumstances of her own childhood—Griffin examines how the subtle dynamics of parenthood, childhood, and marriage interweave with the monumental violence of global conflict. She proffers a bold and powerful new understanding of the psychology of war through illuminating glimpses into the personal lives of Ernest Hemingway, Mahatma Gandhi, Heinrich Himmler, British officer Sir Hugh Trenchard, and other historic figures—as well as the munitions workers at Oak Ridge, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, and other humbler yet indispensible witnesses to history.

Author : JPS,Jewish Publication Society Inc
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0827609000

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JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh by JPS,Jewish Publication Society Inc Pdf

Our most popular pocket Bible, now in new colors, as well as our traditional black edition. This pocket version of the JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH offers the same text and number of pages as the standard edition. Although smaller, the letters, Hebrew vowels, and cantillation marks are crisp and clear. Fitting easily into a backpack or briefcase, this pocket edition will appeal to students and others who need a lightweight, compact version of the popular JPS Hebrew-English Bible. The sturdy coated paper cover will stand up well, even with heavy use.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1590459342

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Hebrew-English Torah by Anonim Pdf

Hebrew-English Torah: The Five books of Moses is a Study Edition of the traditional Masoretic text, placed next to the classic "word-for-word" Jewish translation; it features the most authoritative Hebrew text -- based on the Leningrad Codex and complete with cantillation marks, vocalization and verse numbers. The large format and the use of good paper are part of the design to allow a diligent Torah student to write on margins for more efficient learning. This printed edition comes with a free downloadable PDF edition of the title provided by Varda Books upon presenting to it the proof of purchase.

Author : Joshua M. Greene,Shiva Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0732910269

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Witness by Joshua M. Greene,Shiva Kumar Pdf

First published in the USA. Presents first-person accounts by 27 people of their experiences during the Holocaust. Jews, Gentiles, Americans, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters and child survivors tell of life under the Nazis in ghettos, concentration camps and death camps and describe their emotions and actions following liberation. Includes references and an index.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412517793

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The Accident by Elie Wiesel Pdf

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : UOM:39015054083020

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The Reawakening (La Tregua) by Primo Levi Pdf