“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” this quote by Dalai Lama is significant in this essay because Elie Wiesel and tons of other jewish people did not receive love or compassion during the holocaust. They were treated horribly and no human should have to ever experience what they have experienced. They were barely fed, had barely any clothing at all, and they were stripped of all of their personal belongings when they had first arrived. They had terrible living arrangements and were treated like animals rather than human beings.
The Nazi army treated Jewish people horribly. They were taken to concentration camps and either killed immediately or forced to work for free. They were fed only a slice of bread and a small bowl of soup. They were separated from their families almost immediately after they arrived, some were even forced to kill or take care of …show more content…
By depriving the jews of their basic human needs of food and shelter, the German Army ensured that their prisoners would be weak, therefore they were not able to retaliate or escape. The German Army wanted to have complete control over these people's lives, and they succeeded in that. They destroyed families and the jews even started losing faith in their religion. Elie Wiesel talked about how on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the last day of the year, everyone could feel the tension. They wondered if it really was their last day. The people in these camps did not care about anything else but staying alive at this point. Some didn´t even wish to live anymore, they didn't want to live like animals anymore even if it meant not living at all. Elie himself was only still living for the sake of his father, they do not know what had happened to his sisters and mother. In the end, Elie got out alive. The resistance had finally come and the SS guards had
The Nazi army treated Jewish people horribly. They were taken to concentration camps and either killed immediately or forced to work for free. They were fed only a slice of bread and a small bowl of soup. They were separated from their families almost immediately after they arrived, some were even forced to kill or take care of …show more content…
By depriving the jews of their basic human needs of food and shelter, the German Army ensured that their prisoners would be weak, therefore they were not able to retaliate or escape. The German Army wanted to have complete control over these people's lives, and they succeeded in that. They destroyed families and the jews even started losing faith in their religion. Elie Wiesel talked about how on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the last day of the year, everyone could feel the tension. They wondered if it really was their last day. The people in these camps did not care about anything else but staying alive at this point. Some didn´t even wish to live anymore, they didn't want to live like animals anymore even if it meant not living at all. Elie himself was only still living for the sake of his father, they do not know what had happened to his sisters and mother. In the end, Elie got out alive. The resistance had finally come and the SS guards had