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    Language 8 7 March 2017 Concentration Camps Concentration camps played a major role during the Holocaust. The effects that concentration camps had on people were very harsh leaving the people around traumatized and worried for what was to come. No one really knew what to expect from these concentration camps until they were there. These camps were inescapable. This situation of concentration camps really changed the way people chose to execute people…

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    Holocaust took place during World War Ⅱ. As many as 6 million Jews and 1.5 million babies were killed from 1933 to 1945. Adolf Hitler lead this movement and had Nazi soldiers carry out his plans. The most popular concentration camp to this day is Auschwitz- Birkenau. During this time many camps and ghettos had uprisings with Jewish prisoners. One ghetto that experienced resistance was Warsaw. In September of 1939, the Nazi soldiers attacked Poland. In the capital, Warsaw, over 400,000 were…

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    Attawapiskat and Canada’s Aboriginal true crisis by Joseph Boyden Canada’s Aboriginal struggles with lack of education, resources, racism and heritage of residential schools. Boyden start with introduction of Attawapiskat, a compact youth Aboriginal Cree society in northern Ontario which recently suffer from an overwhelming massive suicides tragedy . As Boyden describes it is an alcohol banned reserve which he visited for the first time 21 years ago as professor of Aboriginal programs, that he…

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    Elie Wiesel Quotation

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    In the quotation Elie describes clearly about his feeling to the God. This quotation is a strong affirmation about how he already lost in faith. Elie felt like he is no longer have to ask for anything, no need to be sorrowful or worship no more. On the contrary, he felt powerful after all that happen. He realized that he is alone in the world, without God or other people. No humanity that can saved him. He was strong enough to through this rather than keep bound to the God whom he trusts for so…

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    There are many similarities between the character in my holocaust novel and my resilient hero novel. In my holocaust novel, my character faces many challenges, she was living in the time of the holocaust, which was a very bad time for jews. Both of the characters in my novel study (Ender’s Game) and (Number The Stars) took very different paths to display heroic actions, one path being he actually had to work to be a hero by helping other people. The other path being that she never gave up on…

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    Concentration Camp Poem

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    book is very clearly about the struggles that every man and every woman faced every day in the concentration camps. The poem is about the struggles Levi himself had to face while at the camp. In the first stanza, Levi describes the reader who lives safe in warm houses with hot food and friendly faces. The second stanza, he describes just a few struggles the men and women prisoners of concentration camps had to go through, including working in the mud, not knowing peace, fighting for food, and no…

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    Lies In Nazi Germany

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    videos that the actual citizens would see showing the "lives" of those in the camps, but the videos showed complete lies. Most people today know the horrifying truth where the concentration camp occupants were starved and beaten and worked to death, but the videos showed acceptable living conditions, available food, and some recreational activities. The Jews in Wiesel's community were warned about the truth of the camps but they didn’t not believe what anyone was…

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    and starring Roberto Benigni. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. Along with his wife, Dora and son Giosué they navigate the extremely harsh conditions of a concentration camp and because of this, the theme of family is extremely prevalent boosting the morale and courage of each member. Benigni uses framing, sound and screenplay to effectively convey the…

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    so I tried staying awake and It was hard keeping an eye on the jews. Later that night I heard someone talking about the train. They said, “I asked one of the guards, before we got on the train, where we were going and he said that we were going to a camp that will keep safe from the bombs.” I thought to myself that can't be right because we didn't hear any bombs or gunshots anywhere. It started to get suspicious. I just wanted to go to sleep so I did.…

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    Wiesel suffered much tragedy and loss throughout his time during the camps; he was appreciated for his skills and knowledge on the terrifying subject later in his life. He grew up in Romania where he spent most days studying the Kabbalah and the rest with his three sisters. In 1944 his family and others were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland where millions of Jews were sent to work or die. After the camp was liberated in April of 1945, he wrote multiple books and…

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