Auschwitz

The world was silent during the Holocaust. The people that were involved in the Holocaust were Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the victims Jews, Soviets, and many other groups of people. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 in Europe and northern Africa. It happened because Adolf Hitler wanted a "pure race" and he chose to blame and use the Jews as a scapegoat since they were not well liked at the time anyways. He also wanted to eradicate the Jews for many other reasons, such as land, bankruptcy…

“I was captured by the Fascist Militia on December 13, 1943” (Levi 2). Thus begins Primo Levi’s account of the debilitation, demoralization, and destruction he witnessed as a prisoner of the Nazi regime’s largest concentration camp, Auschwitz. Levi’s memoir, If This is a Man, requires its readers to examine and comprehend the history surrounding the extreme actions taken against the Jewish population during World War II. However, in the 21st century, the understanding of this genocide is…

Coming from the ruins of WWII, the Nazi party had a will, a will to change the human race forever. Germany was a central power during World War I. Their allies consisted of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire of Turkey. Though the Germans were the most involved in the war, there is little to no known fact that they were anticipating going to war. Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States at the time of WWI, was one of the main contributors in the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty…

pray?... Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Page 4) This shows that Eliezer thinks of praying as an essential part of life. When he experiences the brutality of the concentration camps like Bruna and Auschwitz his faith is tested. Eliezer starts to lose his faith on their eighth evening in Auschwitz. He says, “But I had ceased to pray… I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” (Page 34) At this time in history, people asked “Where is God our savior when humanity is…

in the suffering of others and hoping to wake up another day with a purpose. Happiness is a sweet treat for all of the humanity, it’s given to many but taken away from much more. When happiness is taken away from all areas of life; for example, Auschwitz and other concentration death camps. How could prisoners escape the reality of suffering, death, and abuse all concentrated upon themselves? Within the writings of Victor Frankl and the visual novel of Art Spiegelman, ways of coping are shown.…

In this piece of the memoir told from Elie’s perspective, Elie and his father had just been separated from his mother and sister, and were walking towards the crematorium at Auschwitz. Elie thinks they are going to be sent to the crematory and burned alive. He leans over to his father and explains his plan: “If that is so, I don’t want to wait here. I’m going to run into the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony…

somewhere but got taken to a concentration camp. Just a couple of years later the SS came and got the rest of Jack's family which included his mother and brother. Jack and his family then later got into a line that was choosing whether you went to Auschwitz to get gassed or went to the left and got sparred and jack went to the left and wasn't going to get gassed and his family…

At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly.” Elie’s experiences at Auschwitz and other camps greatly affected his faith. Elie went from being a very strong, or profound, believer, to not believing at all. “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Page 4). In other words, Elie believed so strongly in his faith to the point where he didn’t know why he prayed. Faith was everything for Elie, it was basically his whole life.…

The Dehumanization of Jews by Hitler and the Nazi Regime Hitler and his Nazi regime used effective tactics to dehumanize and degrade the Jewish people, and reduced them to nothing but small beings that they could then rid themselves of. Some of these tactics were small, and some of the tactics were large. No matter the size, all of these tactics were completely inhumane and horrifying. Sadly, they also all took place in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. His memoir can attest to how…

The Relation of Demoralization to God In the book Night, by author Elie Wiesel, his loss of faith in God is portrayed in parallel with the abuses he suffers at the hands of the Nazis, showing that the demoralization he suffers also drastically changes his regard to God. Elie’s outlook on his religion at the start of the book is zealous and enthusiastic, and his passion is further encouraged by his innocence before the war. When he finds a friend in Moishe the Beadle, he urges the Beadle to…