International human rights showcase themselves prevalently within world events and human atrocities. Throughout the course of history, the Holocaust has been one of said atrocities that has provided the largest impact and amount of remembrance of them all. As one of the most influential world leaders, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, has stated, "Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience.
[...] The purpose for the walled ghetto of Theresienstadt was to provide a form of “transit camp” for European Jews on their way to Auschwitz. In true Nazi fashion, the camp was presented on the outside by the Nazis to resemble a model Jewish settlement. According to one article found, more than 140,000 people moved through Theresienstadt from 1941-1945 and, as stated, most went onto Auschwitz. The Theresienstadt ghetto had a regime like that of a concentration camp, but because the ghetto was not equipped with gas chambers, one could not call Theresienstadt an extermination camp (Bonifas, 1992). [...]
[...] It seems difficult to even compare one concentration camp as appearing better than another one, even though that was the case in some instances. In another direction, any profession within the nonprofit organization sector, specifically dealing with human rights, can find a place right at home when discussing the Holocaust. Human rights were center-stage issues throughout the entirety of the Holocaust, although unfortunately received large discrepancies in international and national attention. International human rights, with relation to the Holocaust, can be difficult to access given the time period. [...]
[...] With regards to the implications present when relating the Red Cross visit to Theresienstadt to the Code of Ethics and Values for the non-profit sector, a number of discrepancies seem to surface. On one hand, out of the values previously stated there are several that the International Red Cross failed to meet throughout the course of the Holocaust. These include: commitment beyond the law, respect for the worth and dignity of individuals, inclusiveness and social justice, etc. It seems to me that although the Red Cross claimed there was little they could do against the German government, as a non-profit organization their obligation committed them to attempt to stand up to the higher governmental officials nonetheless. [...]
[...] It can always be argued that we should have done more or we did not do enough, but the fact of the matter is that the power of non- profit organizations over the power of repressive governmental regimes is incomparable. The perceived towards said repressive regimes correlates into the increase of strength for those regimes which then increases the repressive actions towards said “threat.” Therefore, a blurred sequence embarks on its downward cycle. The repressiveness of the Nazi regime is clearly what caused, or at least maintained, the horrific conditions and outcomes of the concentration camps. The Theresienstadt ghetto in today's Czech Republic was no exception. The International Committee of the Red Cross failed to [...]
[...] The famous Red Cross visit to the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto occurred originally because the government of Denmark was anxious to know about the conditions of the ghetto since 466 Danish Jews had been sent there beginning on October Red Cross Visit to Theresienstadt on June 23, 2000). After numerous attempts to send delegates and numerous failures, the German Red Cross finally informed the International Red Cross Committee that it could send a delegate to Theresienstadt in June of 1944. In the end, the visit to Theresienstadt on June consisted of two Swiss delegates of the International Red Cross and two representatives of the government of Denmark Red Cross Visit to Theresienstadt on June 23, 2000). [...]
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