Unit 6 The Invisible CollectionSupplement: The Holocaust and Jews

• What is the Holocaust?

• Who are Jews?

• According to Winston Churchill,

• “The Holocaust is probably the greatest and most terrible crimeever committed in the whole history of the world.”

The Holocaustholos:completely; kaustos: burnt• Definition:the genocide of about six millio

n European Jews during WWII, by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime of Germany

• Ghetto

• Concentration Camp

• Gas Chamber

• Inhumane Body Experiments

Auschwitz, Poland

Jewish Memorial

Brandt’s Apology

Famous Jews in all walks of life

• Do you know

• many celebrities are Jews and they have great talents and achievements in their professional areas.

• Let’s look at the following examples.

1929-1945 Germany(died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)

Anne Frank

• She gained international fame post-humously following the publication of her diary. (pictures in Amsterdam)

The Diary of Anne Frank, 1947

• Otto Frank: “For me it was a revelation... I had no idea of the depth of her thoughts and feelings...She had kept all these feelings to herself.”

1856-1939, Austria

• An influential psychologist

• Psychoanalytic school of psychology

• The Unconscious, Hysteria, Talk Cure

• Work: • The Interpretations of

Dreams (1899)

Sigmund Freud(Statue in London)

1879-1955Germany, Italy,Switzerland, USA

• A physicist winning the 1921 Nobel Prize

• Published over 300 scientific works and 150 non-scientific works

• His name means “genius”

• Theory of relativity• Mass-Energy

Equivalence

Albert EinsteinPerson of the Century in 1999, Time

1907-1954, Mexico

• Female Artist• Surrealism• 1925 Serious Car Acc

ident• 1929 Married Diego

Rivera ( Muralist)• Self-Portraits• The film stars Salma

Hayek

Frida Kahlo

1883-1924, Czech Republic

• World-renowned writer

• Agonizing relation-ship with his father

• Insurance officer, factory manager

• Suffer from T. B.

Franz Kafka

• Works:• The Metamorphosis

(1915)

• The Trial (1925)

• The Castle (1926)

Kafka’s House 22 Golden Lane in Prague

Kafka’s Statue in Prague

• Sculptured by Jaroslav Rona

• The image of a young man riding on another one's shoulders through the night streets of Prague appears in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle."

1881-1942, Austria

• Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Biographer

• Pacifist• Suicide in Brazil

Stefan Zweig

• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922)

• The Invisible Collection (1926)

• Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

• World of Yesterday (Autobiography, 1942)

1946-Present, USA

• A Hollywood Director• Dream Work• Academy Award:• Best Director (Schindler’s

List, Saving Private Ryan)• Best Picture (Schindler’s

List, Saving) • Works: ET (1982), Jaws

(1975), Jurassic Park (1993) Schindler’s List (1993)

• Steven Speilberg

Schindler’s List Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes

Right: Oscar Schindler & Itzhak SternLeft: One of several name lists(more than 1000 Polish Jews)

Conclusion

• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

• I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labor meant purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on earth.

– Stefan Zweig