Auschwitz concentration camp

constructing ingenious ways to reveal a collective trauma of the Jewish victims of Nazi concentration camps, even without any explicit mention of the Holocaust. Although transforming the horrendous events of the Holocaust into an art form may seem inappropriate or even barbaric, Paul Celan’s use of metaphors and images that have both figurative and literal references to experiences in the Nazi concentration camps allow readers to more deeply understand the Jews’ collective trauma. To begin, the…

comprising the society itself. Auschwitz is the historical proof that this type of societal domination is possible. There are a few things considered to be key to societal domination in Auschwitz and these few things had to be upheld or else the system of total societal domination would collapse. These things were found in two different sources of Holocaust stories. The book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, and the movie, “The Grey Zone”, both show many examples by which Auschwitz was viewed as a…

That is, until the Nazi soldiers came to collect him, along with his family and friends as a teenager. The gathered Jewish people from his community were sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp where many devastating events took place in the life of Wiesel and thousands of other Jews. Wiesel later moved to do incredible things, surviving the camp, writing dozens of successful poems and books, and becoming a social rights advocate around the world. (Berenbaum, n.p) His course through life influenced…

Helen “Zippi” Spitzer Tichauer, one of the only few Auschwitz survivors, opens up and shares her testimony of how she survived, the horrible nightmare that was the holocaust. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp, in Poland. Over a million Jewish lives were taken from this appalling event. In the book, Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor, it goes into detail on Zippi’s life. Now at the age of ninety, Zippi is one of the last living holocaust survivors. This book gives her oral interview,…

help us understand and sympathize with him and the tough destructive situations he went through at the concentration camp. First, Elie describes his traumatization…

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heartbreaking novel written by John Boyne. Set during WWII, it is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the nine-year son of the Commandant at the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. His friendship with a Jewish boy, Shmuel on the other side of the fence has shocking and unforeseen consequences. Boyne uses symbolism to explore the ideas in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The fence, Bruno and Gretel’s innocence…

their faith: “one of the most important of these themes is faith, and specifically Eliezer’s struggle to retain his faith in God, in himself, in humanity, and in words themselves, in spite of the disbelief, degradation and destruction of the concentration camp universe” (Dougherty Database). In writing this book Wiesel puts into perspective not only what he went through but telling the story of what all Jews suffered in captivity. When Moishe the Beadle returned to Sighet to tell the Jews about…

comparison between several pieces of footage of the atrocities that took place in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust and footage of that same place about a decade later. The director of this film, Alain Renais, uses actual black and white footage of the conditions of Auschwitz that was filmed by Nazi officials in 1933. In addition, he used his own (color) footage of Auschwitz several years after the camp was no longer in use and the war was over. The constant switching between…

shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” This is what Elie Wiesel about his experience in the German concentration camp for the Jews. This place was called Auschwitz, it was created for the purpose of…

fifteen, his whole family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He and his father managed to stay together through the “selection” period. In line to the selection of either work or cremation in the camp was the last time Elie ever saw his mother and sister Tzipora. Elie and his father managed eight cruel months before on January 29, 1945 Elie’s father from dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion. Elie survived until April 11th, 1945, when his concentration…