Victory by Sonia Weitz

Victory by Sonia Weitz provided me a terrific sensation to me. The plot of the poem reflected her genuine memory, where she danced with her father in the execution camp just before his soul would leave his lifeless body in the gas chamber. To me, the inner meaning of this poem was silent rebel against the sorrowful fate and the Nazis. Instead of fearing, he gladly enjoyed his last moment of his life with peace and happiness, which was a quiet denial to the reality, where he was forced to be devastated until his life would end. In the poem, Sonia states that there are no tools to measure love and only the fools would fail to scale your victory. After reading this expression, I had one question that filled up my mind: Is the 'love' related to the 'victory'? If it is, how are they related?

The Degrees of Choice

"Some people say that what makes a person a victim is they have limited or no options about how to act. " This is not always the truth. The possibility of actions are unlimited. The situation one is in supervises and limits the actions to be taken. For example, the Jews who was targeted during the reign of the Nazi government, they had no choice but to sit or to risk their lives to stand against them. For them, leaving was out of the question. All the nations except for one nation closed their gates to enter, which resulted Jews to stay in the Germany and be slaughtered in execution camps. There is another example for the support which happens frequently nowadays: bullying. If often takes place in schools, by a group of students turning back on one. There are variety of attainable actions that can be taken by the victims of the bullying. He or she might tell an adult about it and receive advice to overcome. He or she would still count as victims of bullying, whatever he or she takes action or not, they are still victims. It was unfortunate for the Jews, however, if they were allowed to the other countries and they were albe to escape, it won't still change the fact that they were the victims. Therefore, the limits of ways to act would not make a victim by itself.

"The Eternal Jew"

'The Eternal Jew', by David Pinski in 1937, was one of the Nazi propaganda films posters that was printed during the Nazi era. The purpose of the poster was to rise the popularity and the power of the Nazi government and to dissuade Germans to support communists and the Jews. The poster of 'The Eternal Jew' includes a Jewish man in a black suit in the yellow background. In the painting, he is holding gold coins in his right hand and a whip in his left hand. Furthermore, there is a plank under his left armpit that is in the shape of a border of a Germany and consists the sign of communism. It looks as if the Jewish man is luring people with gold coins and his whip suggest that he is not to be trusted, since the whip is a aggressive weapon. Moreover, the plank with communism sign suggest that the Jew were the origin, the reason of the communism or they are the same. Additionally, This might have discouraged Germans from helping or even having a positive mind about the Jews. Moreover, this could have possibly affect Germans to pressure the Jews in Germany. Therefore, This image is forcing people to have a negative belief about the Jews. This piece portraits the Jews as the source of evil and errors made. By handing a whip, sign of communism and the gold coins to Jewish man in the art, the man is reflecting the characteristics of the ultimate assortment of the Nazi's antagonist.