Auschwitz concentration camp

past. Eliezer, the main character was a very observant boy who was also very dependant on his parents. He was only 15 years old when the Nazis came for 15,000 Jews who lived in his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in 1944. Auschwitz is the name of a death concentration camp where 1 million Jews were held captive including Eliezer and his family. Within minutes of arrival, Eliezer’s mother and his…

between Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and Gulag Voices edited by Anne Applebaum is the fact that these memoirs are from people who survived, and were both mentally and physically capable of surviving these horrendous camps. Applebaum states that, “the writers [of these books] survived, and all of them emerged both physically and mentally intact.” This is an important fact, because these writers are writing, on some level, on behalf of those who perished in the camps. Aside from the…

situations in the concentration camps in WWll. Both prisoners and guards had lived their lives in fear at the camps, and had no freedom in their own lives. In the concentration camps the prisoners would live their lives working in fear from SS guards and Kapos. While the Kapos, and SS guards were working in fear from Hitler, and the higher leaders above them. Jewish prisoners and German guards were thought as two total opposites, but they do have some things in common. In concentration camps…

War II was beginning, he and his entire family were raptured and taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. He lived many years in this concentration; he lived in horrible and inhumane conditions. In this camp, only him, his dad and his two older sister survived meaning that his mother and his younger sister perished. After many years in Auschwitz, he and his father were taken to another concentration camp; this time it was in Buchenwald in the year 1945. Being in this place, his…

Who was Josef Mengele? Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician at the famous concentration camp Auschwitz. Mengele is responsible for thousands of murders alone, being a selector (a Nazi who decided which prisoners would be gassed and which prisoners would die by forced labor) and being the physician for the camp. He experimented on prisoners as if they were lifeless human beings, with no remorse. Josef Mengele was born March 16th, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In 1935 he earned his Ph.D.…

Pajamas, these issues are illustrated through the eye of a Nazi Soldier’s family who have to move to Poland after the soldier becomes commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In a place where the soldier’s son whose name is Bruno comes into contact with a Jewish child named Shmuel, who is on the other side of the fence in the concentration camp. Bruno tries to understand both sides of the story, the Nazi side as well as the Jewish side, but believes he is superior to Shmuel, only because…

War II the Nazi party along with the Wehrmacht, or the German armed forces committed horrendous war crimes. However, nothing, absolutely nothing tops the senseless atrocities carried out against people, especially of the Jewish faith through concentration camps. This provoked the execution of over thirteen million people with about six million dedicated to the Jews alone with some known survivors such as Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir Night (Holocaust para 3). The deaths of many other peoples…

old woman that lives in Northern Virginia who is the daughter of Rudolf Hoss. After Thomas Harding interviewed her, he tells us that “Brigitte also has a secret that not even her grandchildren know. Her father was Rudolf Hoss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz.” (12) It is unimaginable how a person can keep a secret for that long without telling a lot of people. It proved that she is a strong woman even when she couldn’t express her real feelings. Even though she is the daughter of a Mass murderer,…

gas chambers at the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Within the Auschwitz complex, there were four massive gas chambers in the Birkenau killing center. There were more than 3 million Jews killed in the killing centers. Only a small amount of Jewish people survived the Nazi concentration camps. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer was one of the lucky few to survive a death camp. Him and his family of five were all sent to live in a labor camp. Everyone was joyous arriving to the camps, only to…

striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” – John Boyne, The Boy in the striped pajamas. Written by John Boyne, the Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a novel about the relationship between two nine year old boys during WW2 in a Polish concentration camp. The novel demonstrates the naivety and innocence of children. The Boy in the striped pajamas is based around the developing relationship of 2 main characters, Bruno and Shmuel. Bruno was the son of the Nazi Commandant living a normal…