Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

A Holocaust survivor named Eugene Black was sent to a Jewish camp in 1944 in Hungary. He worked where all the Nazi’s made their V1 and V2 rockets underground. He worked 12-14 hours without sleep or food. So he ended up getting pneumonia, luckily he got saved by a German doctor. He got out on April 15th afterwards he felt survivor’s guilt because he lost his whole family besides his older brother who was working for the Czech Army, this is an example of survivor’s guilt. Survivor's guilt exactly…

article ‘There’s More to Life Than Being Happy’ (The Atlantic: June 2013) discusses the ideas in a book written by Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist who was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl concludes that camp prisoners who had found meaning in their life were more satisfied and therefore more likely to survive. Those that had merely been happy in life found it harder to keep a good morale and were less likely to…

In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, the story follows a man and a boy who struggle with the repercussions of living in a post-apocalyptic United States. Throughout the novel, there are many physical obstacles they have to overcome, such as hunger and disease. Cannibals and street thugs who kill other survivors run rampant through the wilderness as well. Although they have close encounters with all of these things, the man tries to protect the boy from physical harm. The surrounding culture…

people and were brought to the first camp that they stay at. Key quotation: Questions/Reflections: Why was she yelling that there was a fire? Chapter 3 Summary: Everyone left their belongings in a cart and they separated men and women. Eliezer was able to stay in a group with his father and they were then sent to a line in front of a crematoria, but then they ordered them away and they got lucky. When they got into the barracks the new…

During WWII, Adolf Hitler, with the help of the Nazi regime, detained Jews from across their captured territory in concentration camps - sometimes referred to as “death factories”. Concentration camps usually starved their inhabitants, forced them to work long and strenuous hours, among other atrocities.Many Jews in concentration camps consoled themselves with the fact that none of the Allied countries knew the pain that they we’re going through. They convinced themselves that if they knew, they…

However, there was already a concentration camp located in Treblinka. After the construction of the Treblinka death camp, Treblinka the concentration camp became known as Treblinka I. The Germans later built a railroad line which connected the Treblinka labor camp to the Treblinka death camp (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Treblinka). Treblinka II opened on July 23, 1942, which the Nazi’s said was…

teaching and inspiring the youth about his past. Wiesel and his family were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp with millions of other Jews.…

have actually been the lucky ones. The “medical experiments” conducted by German doctors in the camps illustrated the pure evil that could be found in humans. Relating with the ongoing war in Europe, Nazi soldiers forced prisoners to stand outside, naked, in freezing temperatures, to determine how long German pilots who were shot down in extreme weather conditions could survive. In the Buchenwald camp, one of the experiments included forcing the Gypsy prisoners to drink salt water to find how…

innocent people were killed in death camps by brutal torture treatments. Despite the Nazi-stricken continent, heroism and courage could still be found in many people. Between the years of 1939 and 1945, evil was clearly portrayed in the European countries when over four million innocent Jews were executed in concentration and death camps. The horror began when Adolf Hitler was put into power in 1933. In the beginning of Hitler’s reign of Germany, the concentration camps weren’t built primarily…

Elie Wiesel, in his book the Night, described the horrific events of the Holocaust that occurred during the 20th century by writing about his experience in the German concentration camp, Auschwitz. By telling his story, it was possible for people to learn specifically what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust and identify the brutality of the German Nazi soldiers. However, despite these facts, Elie Wiesel at first, swore not to talk anything about the Holocaust. He had to bear so much pain…