Auschwitz concentration camp

Night: The transgressional dehumanization of the soul “In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the…

Eliezer Wiesel was just few of the Jews who did not get killed in the concentration camps. Eliezer aka Elie was born on September 30th 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, a small town in the Carpathian Mountains which later became part of Romanian territory after the war. According to the biographical encyclopedia his father, Shlomo Wiesel, was a practicing member of the Jewish religious community and a tolerant humanist. Elie’s mother, Sarah Wiesel, was Hasidism and hope that Elie would become a…

ways of killing, specifically Jews. Elie Wiesel, a concentration camp survivor who made a book,Night, about his experience, talked about his family and the people he encountered (Such as officers or friends). In a nutshell, Elie was deported to the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz, where he was split from his mother and sister. Elie then moved twice to two other concentration camps, (With his dad) while he was on the edge of dying. At the last camp he went to, his dad died, though once he…

intentions of creating a supreme Arian race. Slowly, Hitler began to oppress the Jewish people of Germany. Germany’s first official concentration camp, Dachau, was opened in March of 1933. Many of Dachau’s first prisoners were communists. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Elite guard, also known as the SS, ran this concentration camp. By July of 1933, German concentration camps held over twenty seven thousand people in “protective custody”. In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000,…

One of the thousands of Jews was a boy named Elie Weisel. Elie and his father were put into a concentration camp after they were split up from his mother and sister who they never saw again. Little did Elie know he was about to go through so much pain and suffering that he would eventually lose his faith that was once so strong. Because of the suffering and dehumanization he was faced with at prison camps during the holocaust, Elie Weisel’s religious beliefs began to change and he eventually…

"Remember that one day of your idleness kills 12,000 souls". This quote from Rudolf Vrba himself was lived out in his actions to help save Jews in concentration camps. His moral courage was displayed in his distribution of the Vrba- Wetzler report, a document forged to relieve the Jews located in concentration camps of their suffering. Rudolf Vrba’s efforts to help people in suffering shows that helping those in need, despite the consequences and the doubts of others, is significant to the…

desperation, some men held her down and gagged her to keep her quiet. Despite the fact that none of her fellow passengers could not see the fire she was screaming about, her nightmarish warning soon proved prescient. When the passengers arrived at Auschwitz, they saw a chilling glimpse of “flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky” (Weisel 28). The smell of the burning corpses in the air was both disconcerting and sickening . Thus, Madame Schachter's nightmare not only foreshadowed the…

very little about the most infamous case of genocide in the world, the Holocaust. Altogether, the Holocaust was the mass murder of over six million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi direction in the 1940’s. Jews were led into camps where they died in horrific, inhuman ways. Between the number of people killed, methodology of the killing, and the premeditated destruction that was allowed by the entire world, the Holocaust is one of the most important genocides in the history…

theme is straight and to the point; the Jews were systemically hunted down and their linage almost destroyed just for their beliefs and way of life. Wiesel, is one of the few who survived not one but three concentrations camps. “Night” is his account of the time he and his family were taken to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Buna. There were many different ways shown in “Night” on how the Nazi SS and the Gestapo committed mental, physical, and social brutality towards not only the Jews but anyone…

statements being made about the nazi’s. In his best efforts to save the jewish people, Maximilian Kolbe was determined to spread awareness about the holocaust. Maximilian kolbe knowingly made this broadcast public so he could be sent to the concentration camps in which they were imprisoning jews. He felt this was a mission from god and there was more work to be…