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    As Hamaoui translates from the memoir Night “The passage uses the poetry and language of faith to affirm a shattering of faith”(Hamaoui 128). The Jewish people struggling to survive the Holocaust are using faith and religion to keep themselves alive. Over time the Jews begin to question God’s willingness to stop the Holocaust. The loss of faith is hard for Elie to keep moving forward in the fight for freedom. Elie starts to believe God has left them to die, so they begin to abandon religion. In…

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    Like the philosopher Pilo says, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” For some, it is a struggle to fit into societal norms; for others, it is a struggle to meet personal goals. In events like the Holocaust, it is a battle between life and death. Elie Wiesel, author of the award-winning memoir Night, shares the account of his struggle alongside his father, who both had suffered greatly during their time spent at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie, fifteen, and his…

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    alternate extremes are vague from each other, and that they are every one of the piece of the same thing. Figure 3: Symbolism of Lord Shiva (Viewed on 7th December 2015https://twitter.com/healthsite4u/status/438972025474785280) 3.3.3 TECHINICAL PERSPECTIVE The Aghori try to free themselves from the cycle of resurrection by understanding their own place inside of the supreme. They trust that they are a piece of Shiva, and at last wish to rise above from their body, or shava, to an incarnation…

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    Change is inevitable, just as life experiences are uncontrollable. The person you become to be depends on parents, environment, and values. Knowing yourself is essential, but change is inevitable. Night by Elie Wiesel is a historical personal narrative that brings the reader through Elie own personal experiences of Holocaust in 1933. Before Eliezer was a quiet, observant and respectful young boy, but this had all changed once him and his family were forced into the concentration camps.…

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    “Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them.” For this reason, the conditions in the concentration camps were gradually taking away Eliezer’s every quality and attributes that made him human. For example, in the novel Night, Elie lost his sense of self during the Holocaust through his suffering and despair because his identity gets stripped away, he lost his connection and his faith in God, and he no…

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    Wiesel’s Father-Son Relationship Replacing His Faith In concentration camps during World War II, relationships were often torn apart. When arriving in the camps, family relationships were often disregarded with half of a family going straight to the crematories. Whatever sort of relation could be salvaged was clung to, even when letting go was the best option. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, prolific author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, recounts his relationships with his god, which was the…

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    Millions of Lives Lost During the Holocaust Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Night once said, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” ADD BRIDGE! The Holocaust is an awful genocide because of Adolf Hitler’s decisions, the concentration camps, all of the deaths that occurred, and the massive decrease of the Jewish population. Adolf Hitler’s Childhood Almost any tragedy that occurs today is compared to the Holocaust and what happened to the Jews. Adolf Hitler was…

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    Dehumanization Among Prisoners When considering the indescribable events that took place during World War II, often times people conclude that the guards of the concentration camps were the only ones who dealt out the inexplicable cruelty to the innocent Jewish prisoners of World War II. This statement later proves to be completely fictional. Elie Wiesel, writer of the memoir, Night describes the unthinkable injustice dealt to the prisoners by the German officers, but also the…

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    Dayton Flack Mr. Baxter 1st Hour 3/2/17 Concentration Camps Concentration camps were a physiological distraught to the people who lived in them and also the people who were involved with running the camps, Even though People believed that this was a steady environment for the people living there and needed rehabilitation to be "cured.", The Nazis killed over 6 million people. Auschwitz was the most popular concentration camp. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz. The Nazis killed the…

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    Nazi Euthanasia Killings

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    registered them, forced them to undress and made them give up any valuable items on them. Next, the physicians would inspect the victim to identify a plausible cause of death that the relatives would believe. After the gassing, the seven SS stokers, crematory workers, cremated the bodies of the victims; the SS men did not identify the ashes of the victims after cremating them. Additionally, the nurses and physicians marked victims with distinctive physical features with a red cross on their…

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