Buchenwald concentration camp

During his time in the POW camp, Zamperini would face many obstacles and torture. One Prison Camp guard in particular, a young Japanese man, who went by the name Mutsuhiro Watanabe, had a strong hold against Zamperini and beat him, and humiliated him more than any other prisoner he came upon. When Mutsuhiro got…

forced labor prison camp, run by the Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Settlements, better known by the Russian acronym: GULAG. Although subject to the harsh, frosty winter conditions the prisoners were entitled to the slightest of independence in terms of food, clothing, leisure’s and much more. This altogether contributes largely to the theme of injustice in the novel. The protagonist of novel is Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. He is a prisoner in the Gulag Camp headquarters. The…

Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his once unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust. Before Eliezer’s living nightmare reigns down, he is dedicated to his religion. At twelve years old, he…

“As my eyes became accustomed to the dark, I saw strewn around the living room in a rough circle the decayed bodies of a man, a woman and two children, stark white bone poking through the desiccated, leather-like covering that had once been skin.” In his book Shake Hands with the Devil, Roméo Dallaire paints a heartrending image of his involvement as a high-ranking general stationed in Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide. Vivid firsthand descriptions evoke emotions of sadness, pity, and anger…

many impactful kinds of literature were created or inspired by the war. One of the many novels inspired by World War II was Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. “Levi, retells what he experienced in a concentration camp in order to educate people of his hardships. During his time at the concentration camp, Levi tells the reader how the Nazis dehumanized him and many other victims forcing them to face severe conditions for the benefit of the Nazis and Germany.”(Esposito). Thought this novel Levi…

invaded and they were all forced to abandon their homes, all of their belongings were left behind and all they had from then on were the clothes on their backs. But soon after that, once they arrived at the camps, even those were taken from them. The first step during the arrival at the camps was for each person to soak in a liquid at the door for sterilization and satitation. After that took place, the prisoners were forced into hot showers and then finally chased outside and given a set of…

average have to make an emergency department visit for assault. There are 16,000 homicides per year on average. Cruelty follows people in life, regardless of where they are or who they are. In the book, Night, Elie Wiesel tells the horrors of concentration camps from his point of view as a survivor. In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote shines a new light on the 1959 murder of the Herbert Clutter family in the small community of Holcomb, Kansas. In both of these texts inhumanity is shown in…

His father was sent to the crematorium to die either already dead or alive. Wiesel, now alone, hardly informs the reader about his last months in the concentration camp. He writes, "Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore" (Wiesel 113). His father's death affected him very deeply, that he doesn't believe his life after mattered. Furthermore, it shows a change of perspective of what Elie Wiesel…

The effects set in even before they reach the camp. On the train, Madame Schächter starts to shout, warning others of a fire. Consumed by fear, the other Jews try to control her, and they attempt to tie her up, but soon resort to violence. Wiesel witnesses, “They even struck her. People encouraged…

Abuse, starvation, lice, dehydration, neglect. Cramped in a small room with others for months. The smells, the disease. You may think that a prison or even a slaughterhouse is being described, but no. These examples are common practice among slave ships travelling across the Middle Passage - that I witnessed while aboard - which transports not only goods but live human beings from the west coast of Africa. This deplorable action of overcrowding and harassment must be stopped from all ships…