Buchenwald concentration camp

Genocide is absolutely horrifying, especially when the reasoning is religion and physical appearance. The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells about a young boy, Elie, and his father as they try their best to survive in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Luckily for them, they have a good enough physical appearance to pass the tests used to determine if you survive. These tests consist of stereotyping and judging people based off of body type instead of how hard they can work. Because these…

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his life during World War II. He describes how he is a Jew and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where the Nazis tortured and abused the Jews physically and mentally. As a result, it caused the Jews to do things that a human being would not normally do. The Nazis had such an effect on the Jewish people that they turned the Jews into ruthless savages and apathetic animals, which dehumanized them to act like animals. The memoir starts…

Political strategist, Reed Galen, in his article, We’re Past Thoughts and Prayers, clarifies the importance of past tragedies and to always remember those horrific events and lives lost during them. Galen’s purpose is to inform people so they do not forget, but remember these massacres. He adopts a contemplative tone in order to get the people reading this article to feel some sort of sorrow, and also want them to make a difference. In order to portray his feelings and thoughts, he uses many…

Hiding and Seeking was Menachem Daum’s film that gave a social presentation Jews in German occupied Poland with the reaction of subsequent generations. The film shows the experience of two Jewish men gaining firsthand knowledge about their grandfather by their father’s trip to Poland through their reconsideration of personal views. The views of the two men evolved from an intolerant, anti-gentile view to a more accepting view of gentiles. Their grandfather had personally experiences which caused…

Jewish history. However, what happened after the survivors were freed from the concentration camps? The Long Way Home is a documentary directed by Mark Jonathan Harris that combines footage, images, and interviews of the survivors ' to shed light on one of the most overlooked periods in Jewish history. Harris uses the material to describe the hardships faced by the people supposedly liberated from Nazi concentration camps and how they survived the horrific conditions. When combined, the…

multi-award winning film produced by Mark Herman, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is set during World War II. The film is seen through the eyes of eight-year-old Bruno, the son a commander of a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of a concentration camp fence has dreadful consequences. The film evaluates themes such as the beauty of the innocence of childhood, the relationships of specific individuals, and the boundaries of those individuals.…

Elie Wiesel, a winner of the Nobel peace prize, was a young boy at the time of the holocaust. He encountered first hand the countless horrors of the concentration camps which included the torture and mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Wiesel wrote these numerous terrors in a book entitled Night in order to bring to light and preserve these unimaginable occurrences that stand as a dark time in our world's history. The title of this memoir, Night, is directly correlated with the…

experience in the concentration camps. They are both male and sadly the only ones to survive the Holocaust in their family. When Elie was being transported into Auschwitz he had to ride in some sort of trains which is similar to Jaques because he too had to ride a train to Auschwitz. The trains contained many people and were typically packed. There would also be casualties within the trains because people would be crushed to death or die from terrible weather conditions. The first camp they both…

Wiesel first arrives at the camp he is seperated from his mom and sisters, unfortunately he did not know that it would be the last time he would ever see them, “I saw them disappear into the distance . . . And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel, 29). Even after Wiesel lost his mother and sister, he contines to suffer because he experiences more death and maltreatment in the concentration camps. As Wiesel and his father…

the belief of God impacted these characters will show you how Night and Maus resemble and differ from one another. In Maus, the story is told from Vladek’s perspective and how Vladek was trying to keep his family safe while avoiding the concentration camps and death. While in the book Night ,we view the perspective from Elie’s eyes while he was trying to survive…