Auschwitz concentration camp

one of few who escaped the grasp of death that millions of Jews did not. With almost dying from starvation, frostbite, thirst, and beatings, Wiesel miraculously survived Hitler’s bloodbath and later wrote about his traumatizing past in the concentration camps. The inhumane acts of Hitler’s Holocaust during World War Two dehumanized the Jews into people as valuable as dirt, cramming them into cattle cars like animals, exterminating useless human beings for no reason, and disowning the Jews of…

Have you ever experienced such a traumatic and drastic change in your life that you felt like a completely different person? During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel and the other inmates in Auschwitz went through this kind of change. Through his exploration of dehumanization in Night, Wiesel reminds us that we have a personal responsibility to understand how people’s lives can change by very small things in an instant, that people have no right to treat others as anything less than human and that…

This way for the gas ladies and gentlemen, is a collection of short stories following the experiences of the narrator Tadek, inspired by the experiences of Tadeusz Borowski during his time at Auschwitz. The work provides us with a personal account for a moment in history that seems unimaginable yet in some ways relatable in modern society. Although the book was first published more than fifty years ago, Borowski's brutally honest, and personal, account of one of the most traumatizing moments in…

Elie Wiesel once wrote “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” This quote came from his book “Night” which was about his experience is the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. In Wiesel’s novel night a tragic theme is dehumanization. Throughout the novel dehumanization occurs when the Jewish community is loaded into cattle cars,stripped of most of their personal belongings, and got tattoos of their number. In the novel the whole Jewish community was loaded…

collaborators terrorized Jews by taking away their rights and sending them into camps where many unpleasant happenings occurred, and German doctors experimented on Jews without consent. On January 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.…

his family to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Once in awe of religion and the practices of religion, Eliezer finds himself tormented at the thought of God. Eliezer even makes the accusation, that of all the deaths caused in the Holocaust, the most painful to witness, was the death of God. The harrowing realities of death and suffering linger around Eliezer as he attempts to find a semblance of sanity and hope. Eliezer professes, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which…

In Ida Fink’s short story “Jump!” she introduces Anka, a shy Jewish woman who lived during the early parts of the war. She lived a life of submission, afraid to take a chance or stand up for herself. It was not until she was put onto a train to a camp in Belzec that she finally discovered courage inside of herself. “Did someone in the train racing through the forest shout, “Jump! Jump now!”? Surely someone must have shouted; one person after another jumped. She jumped into the darkness.” (p.…

by Elie Wiesel, is about Elie and his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie was just fifteen when he and his family were forcibly taken from their home in Sighet, Romania to the horrifying Auschwitz-Birkenau…

Throughout the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel experiences multiple instances of dehumanization and loss of identity. He and those around him are not seen as people by the Nazis, but as expendable resources, workers who don’t matter to them or to anyone else. Auschwitz was a terrible place filled with despair and unspeakable acts, such so that Elie and his fellow prisoners began to lose hope and the will to live because of this. They saw so many terrible deeds performed and became desensitized to this…

in the concentration camps. Dehumanization is when people treat others as if they were just objects and not actual people. The Nazis took the Jewish people's homes, money, food, they beat them and used them as slaves inside the concentration camps. There are many examples of the Jews being dehumanized in the novel that is very upsetting to know that these events happened. First of all, they were forced out of their homes, then the Nazis shipped out the Jews in cattle cars to the…