Adolf Eichmann

In the society of today, many are blind to the murder that happens every day. In America, it is legal to have an abortion and many are oblivious to the process and what abortion really means. Abortion is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end pregnancy (Dictionary.com, 2016). A total of one million abortions were performed in the United States in 2011 (Guttmacher.org, 2016). An evangelist, by the name of Ray Comfort, set out on a mission to prove that abortion is…

“The Lottery:” Submit or Scream According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, prior to World War II Adolf Hitler scapegoated Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals for the economic problems that were facing Germany (Untied States Holocaust Memorial Museum). During the Holocaust, many in Germany, Austria, Poland, France, the Netherlands, and even America turned a blind eye while these individuals were rounded up and murdered. It is all too easy to call this atrocity history as if…

The Holocaust was one of, if not the worst event in world history. Ran by Hitler and his Nazis, this horrific event took place from around 1939 to 1945. During this time period, 6 million Jews, as well as millions of other people, were persecuted by the Nazis, as they were thought to be bad people, even though they did nothing wrong. This event is known as arguably the greatest example of human genocide in history. Because of this tragic event, and all of the bad things that happened during this…

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which nearly six million European Jews were killed by the great dictator Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the World War II associated with the Nazis. In other words Holocaust also means Ethnic cleansing, Deportation or Mass murder, where innocent people were killed and executed. The Holocaust was the organized, officious, the state-sponsored hounding and murder of over six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.…

Doctor Josef Mengele’s actions were immoral. The Nazi doctors performed brutal experiments on the helpless concentrations inmates. Their acts of torture were characterized by many features including individuals that ere forced to become subjects in dangerous research studies against their will, the experiments were often intentionally designed to kill the prisoners, and almost all of the subject were forced to endure mutilation, indescribable pain and incredible suffering. Mengele shunned his…

Nazi Experimentation During WW2 many medical experiments were conducted on concentration camp prisoners. One of the most famously known of the medical staff at the concentration camps was Josef Mengele. Josef was sometimes referred to as the “Angel of Death” or the “White Angel” because of how strict he was when deciding who he would take with him. Josef was also known for conducting painstaking and typically deadly experiments on concentration camp prisoners (Josef Mengele). One Experiment was…

During the Holocaust there was a doctor named Josef Mengele, one of the most terrifying doctors at Auschwitz. He was terrifying because of the horrible experiments he performed (Stockton). The experiments he did were cruel, very painful, and some even unnecessary. He especially loved to do his experiments on people with special heredity such as twins, dwarves, and women. To find those people, he had to start at the ramp for the selection process. When the Jews would arrive at Auschwitz they went…

I would say that there were upstanders in the memoir. One group that I can think of are the Sonderkommandos who blew up one of the crematories and fought against the Germans (Lengyel, 2014, 175). However, I think the upstanders at Auschwitz were few. This is because protesting against the Germans would certainly mean instant death. Some people would disobey orders just to help a person up and be shot on site. One such example is Olga’s husband, Miklos. So, only those who did not fear death could…

After pre-reading the memoir, I now know that the writer, Olga Lengyel, is telling a horrific true story. A story that she herself experienced in the concentration camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The memoir paints a picture of a nightmare that the writer had to live through without being able to wake up. The cover of the book seems to be a picture of the concentration camp. A brick structure covers the majority of the picture with a gate in the middle of the structure. There appear to be train…

NIGHT COMMENTARY In this passage from the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie had been snatched from his home and transported to a concentration camp, in a cattle car. Passage two talks about Elie’s first experience with the Nazis, and the process of how he was treated, and how he felt. This passage shows how a person can be dehumanized by being affected by war and tragedy, it talks about the use of imagery, symbolism, hyperbole, and other literary devices used by the author. The story is told in…