http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/the-holocaust Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:17:20 -0400 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:17:20 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/379/primo-levis-use-of-poetic-language-to-promote-cross-cultural-understanding-in-survival-in-auschwitz By Kristina S. Ten - Though the Holocaust ended nearly a lifetime ago, the systematic extermination of two- thirds of Europe’s Jewish population has left immutable memories that continue to manifest themselves within each new generation of citizens worldwide. The subject itself remains taboo in many circles, surpassing lines of faith and race alike in both its inability to be justified and the terrifying likelihood of its reoccurrence. In Caren S. Neile’s “Poetry after Auschwitz,” the author asks: “Again and again the expression ‘unspeakable horror’ appears in discussions... Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:18 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/379/primo-levis-use-of-poetic-language-to-promote-cross-cultural-understanding-in-survival-in-auschwitz http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/285/the-sobibor-revolt-death-to-the-fascists By Ryan A. Piccirillo - “We knew our fate […] we were in an extermination camp and death was our destiny. […] Only desperate actions could shorten our suffering and maybe afford us a chance of escape. […] the will to resist had grown and ripened” (Blatt 139).The prisoners at Sobibor knew that escape was the only hope for survival. Past escape attempts were met with bloody Nazi retaliation, a deterrent which successfully frightened prisoners into submission. However, an underground movement, led by a Polish Jew named Leon Feldhendler, began plotting a final revolt and escape despite the... Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/285/the-sobibor-revolt-death-to-the-fascists http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1671/the-white-rose-movement-conscience-in-silent-nazi-germany By Ryan A. Piccirillo - The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the gas chambers during the Holocaust. Historians and social scientists often attribute this moral failure to the blissfully feigned ignorance of the German people, enveloped in a blanket of fear propagated by the Nazi regime, and the indifference and prejudice of other nations. Total inaction was a remarkable failure of the human conscience, but a few brave college students in Munich proved to the world that conscientiousness still existed in the Fatherland. It is for... Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1671/the-white-rose-movement-conscience-in-silent-nazi-germany