Camp Widjiwagan

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 and to…

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…

Moral Courage in Work Camps Today When one thinks of concentration camps, he or she thinks of the Holocaust and that concentration camps are a thing of the past. However, there are still horrendous concentration camps similar to the ones during the Holocaust existing in the world today. In 1959, the Kaechon political prison camp was created in the center of North Korea. The camp is also known as Camp 14, and it is believed to imprison 15,000 people who are life sentenced. Most of these…

beginning of Elie Wiesel’s life in 1928 to the very end in 2016, Wiesel has had an extremely up and down life but the lowest of lows any person could ever endure was WWII. But it got worse when he was placed in the most arguable worst Nazi deaths camps ever; Auschwitz. When Elie was growing up as a Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania (present day Romania), he was very religious on his own without the support of his family. He studied Cabbala on his own but his faith wasn’t present through his…

the Holocaust need to be remembered as long as history doesn’t find a way of repeating itself. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, 12 year old Eliezer has been removed from the house he grew up in, in Transylvanian town, to ghettos and different concentration camps. Eliezer’s story takes place in Germany during the 1940s. In this autobiography, Eliezer’s character is developed from a young, naïve boy into a young man who survives tragic circumstances. Wiesel uses repetition, tone and metaphors to present…

I will be discussing the transforming effect that the literature I have read has had on me. I will outline the discrimination in Freak the mighty and The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. Also, in Much Ado about Nothing I will outline the immaturity of Claudio as well as the horrific manner in which Claudio treated Hero throughout the film. Furthermore, I will also outline how the aspect that people should never give up is shown in the short story The Fly. Finally I will discuss…

Mary W. Shelley once said “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” The book Night, a memoir on Eliezer Wiesel life in several Auschwitz Concentration Camps, Eliezer faced many challenges throughout the book an example being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the…

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…