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Stepsister of Anne Frank, fifteen year old Eva explains how she feared for her life at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Every time the narrator tries to walk around the camp, there is always a young soldier watching her, and eventually, he started stalking her in the showers, compounds, and everywhere she went. As a result, she felt as if he…

Lebensuwertes Leben, German for “life unworthy of life”. From early on in WWII, the Nazi policy was to murder the individuals that they felt were unimportant in society. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir, Night. Night, describes in detail his life during the Holocaust and the sacrifices he made when he was there. He is also well known for his White House speech, Perils of Indifference. The speech described how he felt about the experience and how people could have…

Majdanek Concentration Camp Holocaust is a word of Greek and that there were 6,000 Jews killed by the Nazi. The Majdanek concentration camp was a forced labor and extermination camp during the German occupation of Poland in World War ||. It was located in Poland three miles away from Lublin Which this was located in the outskirts. The Majdanek concentration camp is a Nazi and a genocide camp in World War ||.…

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 to be for…

the atrocities of World War II. After revealing their true intentions, the Nazi's round up the Sighet Jews and are sent to the most infamous of the death camps. Auschwitz. In the memoir Night by…

conflict until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Three years later, the American Army discovered one of the Nazi extermination camps, and thus, almost accidentally, the liberation of these encampments…

Judgement at Nuremberg by Abby Mann is a courtroom drama, depicting the trial of a former judge of Nazi Germany, Ernst Janning. The drama goes on questioning his responsibility for sending Jews to extermination under the Nazi regime, but throughout the trial, Janning keeps quiet. Nearing the climax of the play, Janning gives a spectacular confession, admitting his guilt of knowing what was happening but never stopping it. The play comes to an end as Judge Haywood gives the judgement of guilty.…

Grese continued on her rampage of torture and death. Dora Szafran testified at the Belsen trail that, “Grese had beaten a girl very severely.” She and the other camp supervisors maintained their daily selections, beatings, and humiliation. She attempted to maintain control in a situation that quickly spiraled out of her control and lead to the complete destruction of the Nazi regime. She extended her reign of terror on to Bergen-Belsen. One victim named Helene Klein stated, “Grese beat them…

Ferocious Fear Faster, the men ran, faster, are they men anymore, faster, went the running skeletons trying to survive the freezing night. Night is a heart-wrenching nonfiction story by Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who decided to share his story and that of other millions, for everyone to learn and read of. Eliezer was a young man when his entire town was taken into a dehumanizing captivity by opposing German forces, forced around the entire expanse of a European country to five…

few who escaped the grasp of death that millions of Jews did not. With almost dying from starvation, frostbite, thirst, and beatings, Wiesel miraculously survived Hitler’s bloodbath and later wrote about his traumatizing past in the concentration camps. The inhumane acts of Hitler’s Holocaust during World War Two dehumanized the Jews into people as valuable as dirt, cramming them into cattle cars like animals, exterminating useless human beings for no reason, and disowning the Jews of their…