The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, describes the hardships of Ben Kamm, a Jewish boy, and his family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Ben lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. He and his family managed to survive for a couple of months in the Warsaw Ghetto with a little help from family and friends. Ben had joined the partisans in hope of helping himself, his family, and other Jews. Though he lived through a horrific time he showed courage in a situation where others would have run in fear.…
When the train arrived at the concentration camp the Jews had to leave their belongings in the train and were taken to the selection process. Einhorn was separated from his family and got his star and code name. He was later taken out of Auschwitz and brought to a labor camp to work. Einhorn did not see his family during his time in…
Evan Olson Period: 6 Mr. Lone/ Mr.Paulin Book Report: Inside the Vicious Heart One quote I found that really grabbed my attention was, “It was though we had penetrated at last to the center of the black, to the very crawling inside of the vicious heart. I had found this interesting because it really sums up the entire book in a few lines. It shows how the American’s felt toward the Nazi’s and the horrible acts they did. It also explains how the Nazi’s were viewed as “heartless” or that they truly had “vicious hearts”.…
For my second book report, I read the book “All But My Life” by Gerda Weissman Klein. I chose to read this book because I thought it sounded interesting, and I always like learning more about the Holocaust and World War II time periods. I didn’t know much about the book, other than the fact that it is a memoir, but I was excited to be able to read it and learn more about history from it. Gerda Weissman Klein is a fifteen year old girl that lives in Bielitz, Poland with her family. The story begins on September 3, 1939 when the Nazis invade her town.…
Millions, including Simon Wiesenthal, faced horrendous circumstances as a Nazi prisoner during the Holocaust. While performing slave labor, Wiesenthal receives with an astounding request from an unexpected source, a Nazi SS officer, and faces an unimaginable entreaty. When Simon Wiesenthal awoke each morning in the concentration camp, his primary thoughts were likely on survival and his only concern regarding the SS officers was avoidance. Unbeknownst to him, while performing slave labor at a hospital near the concentration camp, Wiesenthal would interact with an SS officer amid unlikely and unexpected circumstances.…
Night Essay It was not only a day of fear, but a day of whether or not you were going to be able to look back at and say “I survived”. January 30th 1933, was one of the scariest day’s for some people. Getting abducted from their homes and taken to camps, the Holocaust had begun.…
Dehumanization in the Holocaust Can you imagine being forced to leave your home to be packed into cattle cars for days at a time with no food, only to go work like a slave in concentration camps where they brutally beat you and take away your identity like your life has no meaning? The book Night follows the story of a young Jewish boy named Elie Wiesel as he is ripped from his home, friends, family, belongings, and identity to go work in concentration camps where it’s every man for himself and nobody's life has any meaning. The most obvious examples of dehumanization in Night were shown through the Nazis, the selection, and the Death Marches. The Nazis were one of the main contributors in the process of dehumanization.…
Before the surgery, he is warned by a fellow prisoner to leave the ward before the SS comes to do “selection” on the sick inmates. Only two days after the surgery the camp hears gunfire, meaning that the Soviets are approaching the camp. The camp is then immediately evacuated towards central Germany, forcing the near-dead inmates to run hundreds of miles in the snow in the middle of January. If the inmates decided to stop running, they were immediately shot. When they finally reach a warehouse to take shelter in, they must keep awake to stay alive.…
Like the philosopher Pilo says, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” For some, it is a struggle to fit into societal norms; for others, it is a struggle to meet personal goals. In events like the Holocaust, it is a battle between life and death. Elie Wiesel, author of the award-winning memoir Night, shares the account of his struggle alongside his father, who both had suffered greatly during their time spent at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie, fifteen, and his father, fifty, were both boarded on a train with the rest of their Jewish family.…
In this camp, only him, his dad and his two older sister survived meaning that his mother and his younger sister perished. After many years in Auschwitz, he and his father were taken to another concentration camp; this time it was in Buchenwald in the year 1945. Being in this place, his father perished and…
Imagine Auschwitz: people’s eyes are filled with sorrow as they glance at the girl. Her ribs are detected from under her shirt and her nails were born with yellow stains that, just looked like she peeled hundreds of lemons. As a man sits up and grabs his whip, he shares a laugh with another commander and starts to shuffle towards the starving child. His hand grabbed the girl’s arm. After cries of pain the child limps with blood slashes and purple and blue fingers.…
I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father 's death, nothing mattered to…
Elie Wiesel was only fifteen years old when he arrived with his family by cattle car at Birkenau in May of 1944. He would spend almost a complete year narrowly avoiding the same horrible fate that six million other Jews are said to have suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany. When you take the statistics surrounding the Holocaust into consideration, it is statistically significant that he even managed to survive the almost twelve month ordeal of this living Hell on Earth. However, the impact of the staggeringly high death count, as well as other raw statistics, pales in comparison to the impact of Wiesel's harrowing recounting of his time spent in a waking nightmare. This essay aims to explore how the impact of hearing about someone else's…
15 year old Elie and his family were stuffed onto a train with many others from their area. They were on the train for many days not knowing where they were going to end up. They arrived at Auschwitz and he and his father were then separated from his mother and sister not knowing that is the last time he will ever…
128232: Life German leader, Adolph Hitler, conducted the largest genocide of the Jews, homosexuals, and anyone that did not have Aryan characteristics. Many people today study and observe the horrific events that took place throughout World War II. What many people do not consider is all of the survivors that lived through Hitler’s reign. Solomon Radasky once said, “When a person is in trouble he wants to live. He fights for his life…”…