Crematory

Father and Son Relationship In Night By the time Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel was sixteen, he had witnessed the worst evils that humanity has ever had to offer, the Nazi Regime and The Holocaust. A dark time in history that had killed God in the eyes of over six million Jewish men, women, and children. Certainly the death of a god is enough to shake a boy to his core, but the death of a father is enough to shatter him. Wiesel records how he was forced to endure these events, and so much more…

The Holocaust left forgotten victims and survivors who wished they could forget. The crimes that took place during the Holocaust showed humanity’s darkest side. People were tortured and killed. Those who survived are forever scarred by their memories. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, writes about his ordeal in his memoir, Night. For some prisoners, the brutality that the Nazis treat them with leads to their deaths. For others, it morphs them into the animals they are believed to be. The Nazis’…

Concentration Camp Liberators During the Second World War, as the Allies invaded Germany, the job of special units of soldiers called liberators was to liberate Nazi concentration camps scattered throughout Germany and other parts of Europe. These concentration camps were the housing of what the Germans called their prisoners of war. However, in reality, these camps were the areas or starvation, forced labor, and precise execution of tens of thousands of Jews and other minorities under Hitler’s…

When the Holocaust is mentioned, one immediately thinks of the Jewish genocide in Europe. However, a few years prior to World War II, Japan invaded China, captured Nanking, and performed a number of cruel atrocities on the people in and around the city. This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized.…

not been embalmed protects others from potential health hazards. Viewing Prior to and During Cremation Some funeral homes offer a rental casket to be used during viewing (wake). If desired, family members can usually make arrangements through the crematory or funeral home to view their loved one’s cremation. Following the…

Complacency is a known enemy but in many ways an invisible one. It will come and go and yet the effects will not always be apparent. This trait is not a result of any personality inadequacy or carelessness toward obligations. Complacency takes place when people are content with their current accomplishments. It ensues when the work becomes tedious and there in no ambition to achieve anymore. When this occurs, the desire to stay ahead naturally subsides and the internal drive has come to a halt.…

Dehumanization In the Brutal Memoir of Night by Elie Wiesel and the far-reaching graphic memoir of Maus by Art Spiegelman, brutality of the Germans is Shown in the Holocaust against the Jews. The main Characters in night differ in ways of surviving as one of them survive through ordinary human instincts and the other through his intelligent and being practical. As they also differ in taking risks; in Night, there was no sign of risk taking but in Maus Spiegelman shows elevated levels of risk…

During a moment where the Jewish prisoners are walking towards the crematory of Auschwits, Elie Wiesel mentions, “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name?”(31) The author’s use of the word “revolt” brings to mind the concept of resistance and hatred, which makes it seem like Wiesel is…

My first taste of Auschwitz began in the snow. While walking in with My umbrella, receiving the cold, icy breathe of the wind through my millions of layers, hearing nothing but the sound of my boots walking on the stones beneath my feet and seeing hundreds of buildings made of brick aligned in perfectly symmetrical blocks, with muddy, stoned pathways separating them, surrounded by double barbed wire and a wooden watchtower on every side. Once arriving at the Warsaw Chopin Airport, my nerves…

still troubled these crippled and did nothing despite how great he was. At the same night, the revolt in Elie reached its peak. “Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled” (Wiesel 64). Thousands of children were burned, with six crematories working day by day, along with the existence of Auschwitz, Buna, factories of death, all in all, in the author’s words, were caused by God and his great might. During this angry moment, Elie became an accuser, accuse God for pinning all of…