Camp Widjiwagan

In Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl documents in great details his time as an inmate at Auschwitz in his book where he ties in his personal experiences and analyzes existential concepts concerning the human psyche. While exploring whether human existence is contingent on a person’s responsible-ness, even in the most extreme and unpleasant situations, Frankl illuminates on key ideas concerning suffering, human existence, and the meaning of life. This paper will be exploring…

Jewish people was that is caused them to lose their lives. When the Nazis came to take the Jews away to the concentration camps, the Jews did not fight back or say anything. This led to them being taken to Auschwitz. The novel states that on the train to Auschwitz, Madame Schachter began…

The Survivors Taduesz Borowski’s “Silence” occurred in a concentration camp. In this story, the prisoners were able to implement their revenge against a German soldier by “tramping him to death” (641). “I assure you that the guilty will be punished, in this camp as well as in all the others” (641), despite of the reassurance that was provided to them by an American soldier they still continued to pursue their plan by attaining justice with their own hands. All the glimpse of hope they had were…

of disregard to an entire culture, religion,,race, a true form of degrading human beings. Elie Wiesel changes from being a joyful and religious Jewish boy in Sighet, to becoming just another empty void, as well as his comrades at Nazi concentration camps. Elie suffered mal treatment that takes away his own faith,hope, beliefs and strength; all while being treated like nothing more than dirt in a swamp. The Jewish people were dehumanized and became nothing more than “objects” to the Germans, who…

author voices: After 1939, however, the concentration [camp] system became a massive SS empire, inflicting pain and suffering of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents, and social outcasts. Himmler’s control over the police, particularly the Gestapo, allowed him not only to persecute opponents, but also to punish Jews who violated Nazi restrictions or the Nuremberg Laws after 1935. (Grill) This citation shows that in concentration camps after 1939, Nazis exterminated multiple races and…

Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel. Together, they risk their lives to save the young…

going to move to a new home after Hitler promotes Bruno's father. Bruno comes from a family of wealth and is unhappy with his new living arrangement. Bruno has no idea he lives near an Auschwitz death camp. While exploring one day Bruno meets a Jewish boy names Shmuel at the fence of the death camp. He befriends Shmuel, visits him daily, and even sneaks food in for him.Bruno talks to Shmuel every day, sometimes complain about luxuries…

tremendous age difference and level of maturity. Elisha being 18 almost 19 years of age compared to a young boy of 12 or 13 is quite a gap. “Alongside my father, there was a boy who looked strangely like myself as I had been before the concentration camps, before the war, before everything.” (Wiesel 185). The “little boy” was almost like the ghost of his past. He brought Elisha remembrance of his childhood self. Even though it seemed as though “little boy’s” level of maturity is very high. His…

The Cruel Final Solution There was a conference that was known as Wannsee, that was held in Berlin, 1942. At the Wannsee conference, the SS, subdivisions, handled what was known as the Final Solution that targeted the Jews. The conference was brought up to light in the film Conspiracy, where the Final Solution was agreed upon Hitler’s fifteen men who debated the pros and cons of what was to be done to the Jews. In addition, the Final Solution determined what was going to happen to the Jews,…

The amount of light that came through showed how the were stuck in the same cycle and did not have a way out. The less light that came, the less free the person was, making them trapped. The uncertainty of the camp came with “prisoners were not allowed to carry watches”(21). This made sure that the men did not comprehend when and where they were and at what hour, making them do more service. The benefits came to the higher power considering that they ended up…