Auschwitz Essay

Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the passage from “Auschwitz Shifts from Memorializing to Teaching” by Michael Kimmelman, are two very different styles of writing, but can be compared together in many ways. For example, The Book Thief is a novel written from the point of view of Death and the main character is a young German girl, while the passage from “Auschwitz Shifts from Memorializing to Teaching” is educational. Both The Book Thief and “Auschwitz Shifts from Memorializing to Teaching” are…

Nomberg’s Auschwitz: True Stories From a Grotesque Land, she tells her story of her experiences within Auschwitz. Likewise, Primo Levi tells his story of his encounters during his time in Auschwitz in “The Gray Zone”. In her essay, “The Concentration Camps”, Hannah Arendt writes that “the next decisive step in the preparation of living corpses is the murder of the moral person in man”. Given this, as well as Sara Nomberg’s Auschwitz: True…

One should not have to feel obligated to write an article on a topic quite obvious as it is. However, within the article titled, "Capture this: It's wrong to play Pokémon at Auschwitz" the author, Leonard Pitts addresses what should be an unnecessary global issue that involves people who are playing the mobile game "Pokémon GO" on sacred grounds. Within the piece, he uses tone changes and anecdotes to appeal to ethos, logos and pathos. Pitts’s article consists of anecdotes and various tones to…

theology, which proved to become a collection of philosophical and theological debates discussing in essence the role of God in both the lives of humans and the universe. Does he care? Through analyzing The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel and After Auschwitz by Richard Rubenstein, these works suggest that either God does not exist or…

Almost twenty years after the Nazis defeat, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials began. This was the second trial for Nazi soldiers stationed in Auschwitz. Over the course of two years, twenty-two defendants were tried for their actions during the Holocaust. These trials took place in Germany and were open to the public. This was somewhat of a way to bring the details of the Holocaust to the public. In fact, there were three hundred and sixty witnesses called to the stand over the course of the trial.…

Auschwitz I was the first concentration camp built before Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Auschwitz II-Birkenau was a mixed purpose camp of a concentration and extermination camp. Finally, Auschwitz III-Monowitz was built to manufacture buna (A type of synthetic rubber) that are used in World War 2. Auschwitz concentration camp’s original use was to use it as an army barrack. Later than, SS-Oberführer Arpad Wigand suggested that Auschwitz I could be a place for concentration…

Kluger’s view, should we preserve and visit places such as Auschwitz? What arguments speak for and against it? What is your opinion? In Kluger’s view, we should not necessarily preserve and visit places such as Auschwitz. The author explains her views while talking to graduate students. The students claimed that, “Preservation was a form of restitution” (p. 64). Although they agreed that no one liked the touristy action of people gawking at Auschwitz, they stated that the “site of suffering has…

and killed Jewish prisoners. It all started in the month of May 1949. There were 24 concentration camps. Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, was the worst of them all because of the many gas chambers, poor living conditions, and the death marches that killed millions of Jews. Most Concentration Camps contained one or two gas chambers. But Auschwitz had eight gas chambers. Auschwitz had five crematoriums and two bunkers. Each Crematorium had one gas chamber and a furnace, which was a…

mass killings. He is being charged with being a ¨accessory¨ to several hundred thousand murders while he served as an SS Officer at Auschwitz during World War II. He is known as the ¨Bookkeeper of Auschwitz¨ (Allan 2.) The guards had a daily routine, they were placed in areas to either watch over or to take action. In 1942 Groening was 21 years old, he was in Auschwitz. His task was to ¨Be part of the group supervising the luggage from an incoming transport.¨…

treated and how each individual was the bane of some of the Germans existence, including Adolf Hitler. Especially in one of the largest concentration camps of it’s kind, Auschwitz-Birkenau also known as “The Death Camp”. This paper explores what…