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History of the transports Dl and Dm from Teresienstadt to Auschwitz
Strmisková, Sabina ; Míšková, Alena (advisor) ; Václavů, Lubor (referee)
The theme of this thesis is the history of two transports, transports Dl and Dm dispatched september 6 1943 from ghetto Terezín to Auschwitz. It is possible to find a lot of information in many publications, but this thesis introduces this subject throught testimonies of eyewitnesses. Starting with the family background, continuing with deportation to Theresienstadt from where the transports were dispatched. Concerning the transport to Auschwitz, I elaborated its characteristics looking at the age and sex of the transported inmates. Due to the witness's testimonies, I tried to concentrate on the history of two day's journey to the biggest extermination camp during the second world war. And the eyewitness's testimonies are illustrating all the welcoming ceremony, the desinfection, tattoo and dormitory allocation. In my thesis, I would like to describe the Terezin inmates' biannual stay in family camp B IIb, tragical death of 3 792 of them at night of 8 to 9 March 1944, seeking to recreate the Dr. Mengele's list of medical personnel and twins. Finally, I would like to emphasise the fate of 41 survivors of those transports.
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The Representation of Shoah: Children Writing the Holocaust
Vlasáková, Šárka ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
Aim of this diploma thesis is to compare different forms of narrating of the holocaust through Children's eyes. Pure child's narration has much bigger impact on reader than narration of an adult, enriched with metaphors and attributes. In this way child's point of view extends the ethical dimension of holocaust narration. We will examine the discourse of child's narration in three diaries (The Diary of David Sierakowiak, The Diary of Mary Berg, The Beautiful Days of My Youth by Ana Novac), one Fictional diary (The Unloved. From the Diary of Perla S. by Arnošt Lustig) and a novella (Child of the Shadows by Henryk Grynberg). Children's narrators of the holocaust are characterized by psychological maturity, which contrasts with their official age. On the other hand they reveal childishness, while growing up, because of their unfinished childhood. In those books we will examine changing of the narrators discourse and his depiction of space (ghetto, concentration camp, shelter) and persons (family, friend, Nazis). We will also focus on distinct motives that form these books (e.g.: hunger, guilt, comic, Paradise, game).
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The Reflection of the Vichy's participation in Shoah in French Cinematography
Rábová, Michaela ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the difficulties French people meet when dealing with their war history when the Vichy regime collaborated with Nazis on the persecution and deportation of Jewish people. This topic is exclusively examined from the point of view of French cinema between 1945 and 2010. By analyzing the films concentrated on Shoah, the thesis shows the development of portraying Vichy's involvement in the genocide. The main aim is to answer the question on how was this issue shown in French cinema during the second half of the 20th century and to create a new chronology of this topic from 1945 until 2010 based on the analysis of chosen films and secondary literature. The thesis should then approve or disapprove the hypothesis that the intention of French film makers to point out the taboos connected with collaboration and Shoah increased throughout the second half of the last century which was enabled partly by the attitudes of the new post-war generation and partly by the change in the French politics.
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The Holocaust through child's eyes
Šimečková, Tereza ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The thesis analyses the child's perspective in the literary works of the holocaust literature - the novel The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski, the short story Děti (Children) by Arnošt Lustig and the piece Noc (Night) by Elie Wiesel. We assume that the child's perspective is significant and totally different from the perspective of the adult narrator. The goal of the thesis is to define the characteristic elements in the narrative. First and foremost we seek to analyze the elements in the language, style and motifs of the texts. We also want to define what kinds of literary works are suitable to be denominated as literature written through the child's eyes. We divide the works into several groups according to the fact if the book is a fiction or a memoir. The main differences in using the child's perspective are between these two groups of literary works. In the thesis we first describe the holocaust as a historical event and then we go on with the description of the holocaust literature. In the other parts of the thesis we analyze the literary works mentioned above.
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Legal-Historical Aspects of Punishment of Nazi Criminals on the Background of the Adolf Eichmann Trial
Kohout, David
in English Dissertation Thesis David Kohout: Legal-Historical Aspects of Punishment of Nazi Criminals on the Background of the Adolf Eichmann Trial This Dissertation on the topic of "Legal-Historical Aspects of Punishment of Nazi Criminals on the Background of the Adolf Eichmann Trial" seeks to analyze the main approaches to the prosecution and punishment of the Nazi crimes. It was chosen to use the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in years 1961 - 1962 as a connecting thread of this whole work. It was so not only due to the individual remarkableness of the trial but also due to the fact that it was in many ways a very illustrative for the previous legal development until that time. Additionally, many commentators of this trial attribute it a great impact on the renewal of the interest in the prosecution of former Nazis who were implicated in perpetration of crimes committed until 1945 and who remained at large after the end of war. Therefore this Thesis goes beyond the Eichmann trial and focuses on its broader context in material but also personal sense (in the text it often referred to cases of prosecution of close collaborators of Adolf Eichmann). In the opening chapters this Dissertation, however, starts with events that go far back in time before the Adolf Eichmann trial. This is for the...
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Diaries from the Terezin ghetto in education
Jordánová, Helena ; Míšková, Alena (advisor) ; Parkan, František (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the use of diaries from the Terezín Ghetto in education. It focuses on their connection with professional publications about the Terezín Ghetto and their practical use in teaching. It demonstrates that the diaries are a good source of knowledge of everyday life in Terezín. The thesis brings new learning opportunities in lessons and wider perspective on the issues being discussed.
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textual modifications of Lustig's prose
Peštálová, Lenka ; Peterka, Josef (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Cizojazyčné resumé Textual modifications of Lustig's prose The aim of the thesis was to discover the processes of Arnošt Lustig's interference into his previously published work and giving them the final form. The author of this paper was interested in the changes being only supplementary additions of the story or if the meaning is significantly influenced by writer's editing. At the same time, the question about the reason, function and meaning of the changes was raised. For the research three Lustig's books, were chosen: Noc a naděje, Modlitba pro Kateřinu Horovitzovou and Dita Saxová. They slightly vary in genre. The first chapter is about textology. The second chapter Poetics of Arnošt Lustig deals with Judaism as his inspiration, context of the time period in which he was active - the second wave of War prose, the topics of his prose being rather mono-thematically from Jewish background and with his characters, weak and humiliated people who remain moral winners although they often die. The third, fourth and fifth chapter are more about individual books. Their first publication is compared with the last one. The added texts are then sequenced into logical units, described and commented. All chapters contain short conclusion. The last closing chapter presents the results of the thesis. Lustig's...
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The origin of the Nazi death camps 1941 - 1942
Hájek, Jakub ; Jeřábek, Martin (advisor) ; Moravcová, Dagmar (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The origin of the Nazi death camps 1941 - 1942" explores the escalation of the Jewish persecution in the period between the attack on the Soviet Union and the Wannsee Conference. The focus of this thesis lies in the cricial period for the destiny of the Jews in the Nazi Germany, with its stressing the most important points that led to the gradual escalation of the Jewish persecution. The killing starts with searching the most suitable destination for the deportations, and it proceeds to numerous murders in which there were the origins for the mass killings that followed. These were known as the "final solution" and they took place in a highly elaborated system of camps which were later called "death camps". The main focus is therefore the distribution of the directions, control and coordination of the killings by the Nazi security institutions and administration. This is because the formation of the administration and progressive centralization of the Jewish persecution are the most important points for the understanding of how this mass killing could be so carefully controlled by the Nazis and how it could develop from such local activities to the massively industrialized killings of the Jews from the entire Europe.
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Relationship between "Ich" and "Der andere" in Améry's "Hand an sich legen"
Straková, Zuzana ; Kouba, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Ondřej (referee)
(in English) This thesis deals with the relationship between The Self and The Other as presented in the works of Jean Améry, especially in his book about suicide. To think about the relationship between these two agents means also to think about freedom, humanity, the right to life, and the right to voluntary death. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the definitions of the relevant concepts; the second part reflects on the concept of voluntary death. It is precisely the voluntary death that can be the most radical result of the culmination of misunderstanding between The Self and The Other. For voluntary death is not only a decision not to live at this time and place but also a decision to leave this society, the others. According to Améry, the decision to commit suicide is a free, natural, and humane act. By saying that suicide is a free act Améry argues against the deterministic teachings of psychologists. Améry believes that voluntary death is a natural response to inhuman, humiliating, or for any other reason unacceptable life conditions. He thinks that voluntary death is also a humane act, as it gives men the opportunity to stop existing when there is a threat to their existence as human beings, for example when they get dehumanized like a muselman in a concentration camp. In the...
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René Edgar Tressler - The Unknown Author of the Holocaust
BOHOŇKOVÁ, Lucie
This thesis deals with the life and work of Rene Edgar Tressler. The purpose of this paper is to classify the writer in the context of Czech literature dealing with the topic of shoa. Given the empirical base of Tressler´s work, I analyze the relationship between fiction and reality. This thesis is mainly focused on the book Utkáno z lana katova, which exists in two versions (the second edition named Únik osudu). Therefore, part of this thesis is a comparison of both publication.
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