1939 brought WWII into play, along with the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Axis powers gained influence in Germany by promising to make Germany back into a superpower. He riled up the citizens, stating the cause of all their distress was caused by the Jewish community. He used them as his own scapegoat just as previous civilizations had done countless times before throughout history. Hitler proceeded to persecute the Jewish communities and other minorities seen unfit for the German aryan race Hitler desired to create.
Succeeding WWII, the Holocaust has been represented through many different mediums such as film, music and autobiography. Each form, along with its message, creates different impacts on the viewers spurring controversial debates whether it is effective, truthful or ethical to represent such a traumatic event in…show more content… After a close analysis of the artistic and historical representations of the Holocaust, it is evident that certain genres have varying intensity on viewers depending on the emotions it inspires, and a melding of artistic mediums with history is the most favorable and most effective. This is intensified by examining the works of Benigni with Life is Beautiful, Elie Wiesel with Night, and Luigi Nono’s Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz.
A normally unconventional way of telling the stories of the victimized is through music. Music can reach many audiences and reach them on a level that words and pictures can not relay, because it has “strong ties to our emotions” (Why Does Music Move Us?). A key example of a musical represents of the Holocaust is Ricorda
