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haunting thought about the future and this catastrophe happening again. A surviver and Nobel peace winner, Elie Wiesel, brought his story to the hearts of many, teaching and inspiring about his past. Wiesel and his family were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp with millions of other Jews. During his journey he is faced with obstacles that seem to be the end for him, but his father keeps him going and motivated to survive. Wiesel didn 't know if he would…

Never to be Forgotten and America and the holocaust are two pieces of work that deal with families and their hardships and losses during the war. Never to be Forgotten is the story of Beatrice Muchman and her family. Beatrice tells the story from her point-of-view as a Jewish child in a Nazi-occupied Belgium. America and the holocaust was a documentary about Kurt Klein and his family during the holocaust. There are many simliarities and differences between these two incredible stories of the…

“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the hands of the Nazis. The Jews’ desire to live…

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is told from the point of view of the early 1940s in the middle of World War II. It is the story of a little boy named Bruno who is very naïve when it comes to the events of the world because he is not properly informed. He is born into a wealthy, important family in Berlin. There he is brought up with his three best friends for life: Karl, Daniel, and Martin, and his sister, Gretel, who is a “hopeless case” (Boyne p.3 and 7). He lives in a big house that is great…

Night is an account written by Elie Wiesel. Elie writes about his own life experiences during the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, and about all the terrifying memories he had dealing with the death of his family. He was only a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in Sighet. During this time they felt as if they needed to give up, or as if it was too much to go through. Elie was one of the very few that survived during this time. Some believe he lived in…

ending after Riva makes it to the US and starts a life for herself. The person writing this book is Ruth Minsky Sender she wrote this novel about herself using her Yiddish name to show the world what she went through and her experience throughout the camps. There is no bias expressed throughout the book because she wrote it as what had happened to her, wanting to share her story with the world. The viewpoint on this book is that what the Nazi’s did was wrong, it showed that the Jews were…

When the Nazis began their reign of terror across Europe, over 17 million people were sent to their deaths in concentration camps, but Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was given a fate he found worse than death. In Nyiszli's novel, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, the horrors of the secret Sonderkommando are uncovered. Nyiszli agrees to become a doctor for Auschwitz in order to save his life, unaware of the atrocities he will witness while working under Dr. Josef Mengele – the "Angel of Death". This…

Setting The setting for “Slaughterhouse Five” is all about World War II. “Slaughterhouse Five” includes many places from World War II such as Dresden, prisoner of war camps, and battlegrounds. “Slaughterhouse Five” also includes Tralfamadore, a fictional planet, and Ilium, New York. World War II is unsanitary and cold. Billy’s home is known as relaxing and open. Tralfamadore is an enclosed space, but made to look like the average home. The settings in this book play an important part because…

survival; It has an impact on you throughout your whole life. Cara de Silva’s essay “In Memory’s Kitchen” shows how far back in time that food truly was a part of us. Anny received a recipe book years later from her own mother, Mina, that was in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. She holds the book near and dear to her heart because it resembles her mother’s memories and life. Her mother was old, and during the Holocaust, elders were not seen as important, so they were left with no food…

In the story, “The Pelcari Project” by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, an ordinary doctor stumbles onto the cruel medical experiments that are forced onto prisoners held a secret prison camp. The prisoners are stripped from their ability to talk, read and remember. However, the main prisoner discovers his preservation of the ability to write by possessing a notebook that allows him to write. This revelation of writing enables him to now remember, think, and eventually leads him to the realizations of the…