I'm doing a project on the Holocaust at school and I was wondering what to put on the front cover of it.
I want something really different and eyecatching but may be quite simple for a dramatic effect. I'm also going to draw it so not too difficult please.
I thought about just having a row of barbed wire on the front?
Lorna
2007-06-21 05:57:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I have another idea and one I think will get you an "A" both for content and originality. I know you will not believe this but there has been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnsons Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York).
The official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans. The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books. One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.
During the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."
One Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.
The story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented. There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs. The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners.
The North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take them without exchange. Again, the North refused to do so. They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.
God Bless You and Our Southern People.
2007-06-22 18:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that in this case you should keep the cover simple. The Holocaust was a terrible time - don't make it too commercial. For my history project, I just put a picture of a soldier mourning at a grave...it's not an art project!
2016-05-21 12:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a simple blue background, with a yellow star of David on the front...(but kind of "patchwork-y" looking, like the fabric stars they had to wear)...
Or a simple black or red background with your idea of the barbedwire..or just an outline of an arm with a "number" tattoo on the inside wrist like the victims were forced to have...
Or...two haunting eyes looking out through the barbed wire...
(sort of floating on the page behind the wire...)
2007-06-21 06:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Toots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a dove caught in barb wire but as the shadow the star of David
Dove- Symbolizes peace and harmony
Barbwire-war hatred evil
Dove in wire- the killing of innocence
Star of David- Jews
2007-06-22 17:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by lol pirate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the answers are excellent. I'd keep it stark. Black, white with maybe yellow and red where appropriate. I also like the barbed wire and "Arbeit Macht Frei" suggestions.
2007-06-21 19:09:49 · answer #5 · answered by 34th B.G. - USAAF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would include the words 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ('Work makes you free') which were displayed at the entrances to concentration camps.
2007-06-21 07:15:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Star of David idea is good, but would be more effective if you put a Swastika on top of it. (Symbolic of the Nazi oppression)
2007-06-21 07:24:50 · answer #7 · answered by missyshell05 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
choccy and sprouts mom beat me to it...putting the slogan "work will make you free" was one of the great ironies, and another example of German sadism....giving the people coming to the camps one more hope that they might actually live through the experience
2007-06-22 02:34:39 · answer #8 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
add a star of David like those the Jews were forced to have on their clothes hanging from the wire.
Here is what it looked like :
http://www.hilchenbacherbuendnis.de/stern.jpg
2007-06-21 06:04:45 · answer #9 · answered by Cabal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its powerful, but not simple.
maybe you could just trace the important parts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Einsatzgruppen_Killing.jpg
2007-06-21 06:06:53 · answer #10 · answered by (insert creative name here) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋