Sara Nomberg-Przytyk Thesis

So many people are important to history. Usually those important people have things to teach the world. Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, a Holocaust and Auschwitz survivor, is one very important person with many lessons to teach. In Sara Nomberg-Przytyk’s autobiography Auschwitz: True Tales of a Grotesque Land, Nomberg-Przytyk illustrates her importance as she teaches readers about themselves and karma through examples of other people. Importance can be shown through what one has done with their life and what they represent. Sara Nomberg-Przytyk is important because she survived a horrible event and she chose to tell the world about it. She reminds and teaches everyone of an evil time. She represents millions of victims who did not get that chance. She …show more content…
It is a common saying that holds truth. The author gives a lesson on both good and bad karma. Throughout her book, Sara remains a good person and helps other prisoners. At the end of her story, she is given the chance to escape and acts on it. She gets to clean herself, which doesn’t happen in the camps, she gets more food then she has in months, and she is found by the Russian army, who immediately protect her. For being a good person, she gets rewarded. She gets her freedom. The author shows bad karma as well. The author writes down an experience where she and a fellow prisoner search an abandoned home for food but cannot find any. Suddenly a nervous Nazis man storms in with guns attached to his hip and asks if they have bread, or any other food to satisfy his hunger. Using this example, the author teaches bad karma. The Nazis soldiers took everything from the Jewish victims and the Jews were usually the ones scared and begging for food while being starved. The situation gets turned around and the Nazis men are the ones starving and asking for food. They are becoming scared because the Red Army is coming and the Nazis know what they did was wrong and it is coming to bite them in the butt. The author teachers her readers that karma is a true principle and people do get what they deserve in the end whether it is good or