"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
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Survivors of the SHOAH visual history foundation, 1998. So there was something they needed in order to kill us. 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.
Sixty years after the war has ended, the imprint of the Angels of Life and Death are still among us. 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). Today, these diamonds symbolize all of her memories of her mother, and she plans to pass them on to her first born daughter who will in turn pass it on to her first daughter and so on to all future generations (Chandler 69). Helen was moved to Shindler’s factory in March of 1943 where she immediately was put on the work staff. ” The Palm Beach Post
17 February 1999: 1D and 4D. Zisblatt, she quickly responded with the comment, “Chosen for what?!?!” Although an angel has touched both of these survivors’ lives, they have been saved due to man man’s atrocities and another man’s intervention. " Two different “angels” thrust into the same time period in history—each man would be remembered for his part in this brutal massacre of innocent people. They already took my family, they already took my freedom, they already branded me with a number and took my name away.
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