Auschwitz

Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party and German businessman who used his influence and power to have a positive impact during WWII, rather than the negative one many people he was associated with had. Schindler was born on the 28th April 1908 in Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He attended both primary and high school and later enrolled in technical school but was expelled for forgery. He took courses in Brno in several trades and worked for his father for three years in his farm machinery…

One thing that I learned, is that the Nazis would burn the people and babies alive. I was very disillusioned when I read the part of the book when Elie arrived at Auschwitz and was heading towards the crematorium ovens and he saw the people and children being burned alive. I can’t imagine how hard and depressing it would be to see people being brutally killed in front of your eyes and not being able to help them.…

was published in 1958 and tells the story about what happened to Elie and his family during the Holocaust. Elie and his father are separated from their family in the Sighet ghetto in Germany. Elie and his father are taken to the concentration camp Auschwitz. There are three quotes in the novel that show how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews during the Holocaust. When the Jews arrived to the concentration camps, they were forced to get tattoos on their arm. This tattoo stripped the Jews identity…

David Ortiz 11-20-15 Lang. Arts Gross Rosen The concentration camp Gross Rosen was made as a satellite camp during August 2, 1940. The concentration camp for a while had many females and became the camp with the most females. The first commander was SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Arthur Rod. The last commander was SS – Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Hassebroek. In May 1941 it became a concentration camp and closed down February 1945. Gross Rosen Concentration Camp was a camp with mostly…

A few ways were severe beating, starvation, and physical and mental torture. Also convicts to weak or ill were sent to other camps ( Auschwitz and Mauthausen) Dora had a higher death rate compared to other work camps. Dora had such a high death rate because, the prisoners were kept underground deprived of fresh air and sunlight. When the Allied powers began attacking(early April), the…

In Concentration camps, The prisoners had to work for days and didn’t eat at days at a time. Also, the prisoners had to go “death marches” and moved from camp to camp in trains. The rides were days long and during them, the Soldiers through bread through the windows and watched the prisoners fight for bread because they were starving. People died during the rides and were thrown out on the side of the road. Some of the camps were worse than others and treated the prisoners differently.…

silent?’ This meaningful question is asked by Elie Wiesel when he was only fifteen years old. In his book Night he tells his dreadful experience in the largest cemetery where millions of innocent people were murdered this terrible place is known as Auschwitz. During the Holocaust and till this day people deny or ignore the fact that millions of people were starved, beaten, and worked to death in this horrendous place. During the Holocaust too many people were silent or did not believe that…

violence in the oppressors which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed." (Paulo Freire) Night is written by Ellie Wiesel is his memoir but more about what he experienced during the Holocaust. Elie tells the story of being in the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwalk around the end of the second world war. One of Wiesels' strengths and 90 is to show the full case of dehumanization. Dehumanization is a statement of facts because if you realize how messed up it is, you can realize how…

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Wiesel's book Night highlights for us some of the consequences of being a bystander, instead of an upstander. Hitler was able to come into power because those who felt that what he stood for was wrong were watching what was happening to Germany without voicing their concerns. In chapter one of Night, Wiesel's friend who was shoved into a cattle cart and shipped away returns with bad news of how the Nazis killed all the Jews that were shipped away in cattle carts. Despite his attempt to convince…