Auschwitz

Adolf Hitler was fear for many reasons. He killed millions of people, separated and changed lots of families in Europe. 1.7 million young men were killed, also 4.3 million men wounded and thousands of women, even kids. This made a total causalities of 7 million. Hitler had a group called The Nazis where they killed people in different and horrible ways. Not only killed but destroyed everything like houses, stores and entire towns called Ghettos where the Jews used to live. Hitler had this…

Pavi Bassi Mr. Montegomery U.S. History/ Period 4 12 March 2015 This Day In History (TDIH) - Holocaust The Holocaust is a period of time in history which began in 1933 and ended in 1945, at the end of the war. Between this time periods 11 million people were killed including 1.1 million children. Out of the 11 million who died in the Holocaust, 6 million were Jewish and it destroyed about 5,000 Jewish communities. The Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler gained control of Germany and he formed…

The Germans tried to deceive the Jews, making them think they were entering a labor camp rather than an extermination camp. One death camp, Belzec, even made their platform look like a normal train station with flowers. Another camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, had an orchestra to perform welcoming music. Even with that, the people who arrived knew something was terribly wrong. The orchestra members were skin and bones, and often wore clothing that looked like pajamas. Ambulances would pull up…

train ride to Auschwitz there was a lady, a sort of prophet among the Jews. Each night this lady, Mrs. Schächter, screamed of flames and a terrible fire. The people within the car grew mad from listening to her. They gave into the impulse of stopping her. They bound, gagged, and beat her into silence. Even though Mrs. Schächter was trying to warn the Jews they were pushed passed the point of sanity. This breaking point is what allows evil grasp ahold of them. While running from Auschwitz to a…

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, recounts the story of Elie and his fathers’ experiences in the cruel Nazi concentration camps. Before the deportation of Elie’s nuclear family and others of the Sighet community to concentration camps, Elie is pious in his studies of Jewish mysticism. Elie is taught by Moishe the Beadle who lives in penury. Throughout the time Elie spent in concentration camps, he describes two specific accounts of hangings. The hanging that affects the prisoners is the hanging…

The Jews were packed into a small cattle train one of the Jew from Sighet named Madame Schachter kept yelling out that she saw fire in the sky, out in the distance. No one believed her until they arrived at Auschwitz they had to be separated, men to the left women to the right. The Jews saws the flames, the flames that Madame Schachter was talking about in the cattle train is the crematory that Nazis are sending Jews to, to be exterminated. Elie and his father…

Elie and his struggle to maintain his identity. As the books opens, Elie is family oriented and devoted to Judaism. When Hitler gains power, Elie is shipped to a concentration camp and will never be the same person again. When he first arrives at Auschwitz, he has to “throw [his] clothes at one end of the barracks” (32) and the SS officers “shaved off all the hair” (33) from his body. This is the first blow to Elie’s identity, because he is just another shaved prisoner in the same dirty striped…

Wiesel is one of the survivors. Elie Wiesel’s novel ‘Night’ is about Elie being taken to many Concentration camps and the hardships he faced there. In the beginning Elie is studying to become a Jewish Rabbi, but quickly loses faith after entering Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie is an author who also wrote Dawn and Day. In the novel ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because of the cruelty, losing hope in humanity, and losing his faith in…

Change is inevitable, just as life experiences are uncontrollable. The person you become to be depends on parents, environment, and values. Knowing yourself is essential, but change is inevitable. Night by Elie Wiesel is a historical personal narrative that brings the reader through Elie own personal experiences of Holocaust in 1933. Before Eliezer was a quiet, observant and respectful young boy, but this had all changed once him and his family were forced into the concentration camps.…

faced many challenges. These numerous difficulties in the camps caused Elie to change a lot. In “Night,” Elie Wiesel is changed by the Holocaust because he lost his identity, his opinion and relationship with his father and his religion. While in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel changed by losing his identity. He states, “I became A-7713”, and no longer had a name (page 42). This shows his loss of identity because he no longer felt unique, important, or noticeable. He…