Author: alliebochna

  On January 13, 1937 the Japanese army began a brutal attack on the people of Nanking. An estimated 350,000 people were murdered. Other citizens were raped, assaulted, and forced to witness unspeakable acts perpetrated on on their loved ones by the Japanese soldiers .  It is difficult to conceptualize the amount to life lost in this attack … Continue reading “The Forgotten Massacre”

“How could we ever have believed that at the end of the war the surviving Jews would have no more worries, that everything would be fine! The world, we had thought, would welcome our few survivors with open arms! We, the first victims of the Nazis. They would love us! Quickly enough, we saw that … Continue reading ““Liberated but Not Free””

In Frantz Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness”, he expresses that “for not only must the black man be black; he must be black in relation to the white man…The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man” (Fanon,110). Colonial black migrants entering England were not seen as “British” because they did … Continue reading “Race and the British Identity”

In Maya Angelou’s poem Human Family she expresses “I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” This excerpt from the poem perfectly illustrates the purpose of  The Family of Man, an exhibit by the world renowned photographer Edward Steichen displayed at the New York Museum of … Continue reading ““We are more Alike than we are Unalike””

Following the Second World War people across the world were faced with challenges that they could never imagine. Soldiers returning home lost limbs and did not know how they could go on living their normal day to day lives. Even civilians faced hardships they could never imagine, people received severe damage from bombs that forever … Continue reading “Healing the Hurt”

  Following the Second World War millions of soldiers rushed home in the hopes that their lives would be better following years of fighting and loss on the battlefield. Soldiers returning home to Leningrad in the Soviet Union were greeted with “fanfares, bunting and celebration” but this was  merely an instrument of propaganda created by … Continue reading “Battle on the Home Front”

Following the  mass destruction and loss of life caused by the Second World War Europe was faced again with another problem,the displacement of millions of Jews, Ukrainians, Yugoslavs,Poles, Czechoslovakians and other groups of European citizens. The reasons behind these citizens displacements were various. Some of the major reasons people fled their homelands were because of  religious, ethnic, … Continue reading “Dealing with Displacment”

Hi, my name is Allie and I am currently in my Junior year at Virginia Tech. I am a History and a Political Science major. I have a deep love for history and one day hope to teach. Through teaching I hope I will be able to share my passion for history with others and … Continue reading “Welcome to my Blog”