Camp Widjiwagan

Poland, only a few miles away from the city Oswiecim, was the location of the largest death camp during WWII. The camp is known as Auschwitz. It is estimated that around three million to four million people were slaughtered there (Auschwitz-Birkenau: History & Overview). Auschwitz is recognized as the most horrendous concentration camp created by Nazi Germany. The people in the Auschwitz concentration camp were given cruel and unusual punishment in the living conditions they suffered through,…

Personally I have been to Auschwitz. Auschwitz was one of the biggest concentration camps during WWII one of which David went to. It is a frightening sight. Coming in on these cattle wagons and not knowing which faith there is for you at this location. Seeing your own family get split up and some taken directly to the gas chamber. Losing all faith in humanity because of the actions taken by these people. 6 million Jews were killed during this time. David was one of the lucky, one of the few who…

Traumatic Experiences Change Lifestyles In the graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, his father Vladek is jew and is one of the few who survived from the Holocaust. Vladek’s experiences of being a jew and facing oppression throughout the Holocaust greatly affected him, he lost his first son and almost his entire family was killed or had gone missing. Now most of his friends, or people he associates with are also Holocaust survivors, including his second wife, Mala. Vladek also was married…

When they arrived at the camp, Elie and his father were separated from the rest of their family. As Elie lost his faith in God, his father became the only source of hope and encouragement in his life. When they stopped in the abandoned village during their march to Gleiwitz, both…

released from the clenches of the Nazi Germany concentration camp. Through the hardships and devastating conditions. Elie Wiesel survived to write his heart wrenching memoir La Nuit (Night) as a tattered memory of the horrific nature of human hatred. Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania (now part of Romania), Elie Wiesel was born into a family of four (later five, counting his little sister, Tzipora) ("Elie…

Ellie Weisel’s novel The Night and Shirley Wachtel’s In My Mother’s Shoes are as much similar as they are different. Both novels narrate the details of those who were forced to live in the concentration camps for years. In My Mother’s Shoes is told from Holocaust survivor, Blima, and her daughter, Shirley, and switches from each of them throughout the novel. Although In My Mother’s Shoes is told from two view points it can be viewed as three because Betty is Blima’s American name and only…

“‘The Jews are undoubtably a race, but they are not human.’ Adolf Hitler.” (Spiegelman 10) In grade 10 Canadian History, one of the topics students cover is the Holocaust. In the 2015-2016 grade 10 challenge class at L.C.V.I. students studied both MAUS and Night. Both MAUS and Night show the stories of Holocaust survivors, however, the protagonist in MAUS becomes a Nazi prisoner earlier during World War Two than the protagonist in Night. Both of these books can be used to teach students about…

concentration camps and what effect did it have on the victims and the bystanders of the Holocaust? The significance of having three types of concentration camps was that Hitler, the SS and the Nazis were able to concentrate their sub-human victims. Having three types of concentration camps was an essential part of the Nazis ultimate goal of the Final Solution, as it dictated the fate of not only the victims but also the bystanders of the Holocaust. The three types of concentration camps were…

Bruno’s family is moved to an extermination camp for his father’s work. As you can imagine there is little for a child to do at such a wretched place and eventually Bruno decides to explore a little, even though it was forbidden by his father. He comes across…

provisions for the duration of his drifting at sea. After over a month and finally spotting land, Louie was captured by a Japanese ship that had spotted his raft and taken as a prisoner of war. Louie survived numerous prisoner of war camps despite relentless torture…