Extermination camp

named Ellie is sent to a concertration camp with his mother, father, and two sisters. He is then seperated from his mother and sisters and then is just left with his father. He then has to go through living in this camp tring to help keep his father alive and also keep alive himself. Through out his time their he must watch the people beat his father and he got beat him self. And he wanted to give up, but their were certain thing that helped him get through the camp and not lose hope like the…

The Last Night of The World In the story "The Last Night of The World" by Ray Bradbury, there is a husband who says that he had a dream that the world is going to end. But the odd thing was that he didn't even act different. He goes on with his day like nothing has happened. This type of behavior seems peculiar since at his work there were many more people that said they had the same exact dream. This gives credence to the idea that the story The Last Night of The World by Ray Bradbury is…

Is Compassion Necessary to Human Survival? Compassion is necessary to allow humans to live and not just to survive. The human race allows the human race to feel sympathy and empathy. Without it, people will turn against one another, creating situations like genocide and the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel describes this in his backstory of Night, about growing up as a Jew during the Holocaust and the situations that he was put in. Compassion is necessary for human survival. Without compassion, humans…

the best defense against death.” (Levi) That is one of Primo Levi's quotes from his book, Survival in Auschwitz. Primo Levi is known for writing books about the Holocaust. He was also a chemist. As an Italian-Jew he was put in a concentration camp. After the camp was liberated by the Russians, a year later, he was finally free from the Nazis. Primo Levi was born on July 31, 1919. He was raised in a small Jewish community in Turin, Italy with his parents and younger sister. According to My…

Violent Faith ¨For God’s sake, where is God?¨ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ¨Where He is? This is where - hanging from this gal- lows.¨ (xx) The author Elie Wiesel, wrote an autobiography titled Night, which took place in many different camps in Germany but the main one was Auschwitz, the author wrote about himself and everyone else that went through and suffered in the Holocaust during WWII did to survive for as long as they did and they had to do to overcome many hardships. In…

In order to survive, sometimes people find themselves going to great lengths. They each carry a spark that influences the will to continue on. A boy’s self-preservation over his own father; a woman finding the will to save herself after losing a loved one; two star crossed lovers separated. All, no matter the situation had an impulse that pushed them to overcome whatever they faced. A great example of a harsh decision comes from the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Wiesel describes how the Jews were…

relationship with his family and dad was very weak. Elie's relationship with his father was very distant while living in Sighet but once they arrived at the camps they realized that they only had each other thus creating a bond until the very end. Elie's and his father's relationship was distant while living in Sighet. Before the concentration camps Shlomo was rather distant from Elie and his family. Elie says "My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his…

“What a shame, a shame that you did not go with mom… I saw many children your age go with their mothers…” (33). - Night by Elie Wiesel,The book has two main characters Elie and his father, Who find the hardships in trying to make it through the almost unbearable wrath of the Nazis during the holocaust. They found that it was exceptionally hard to survive and keep their faith through there journey. Keeping faith throughout the holocaust is difficult. One example on why its hard would be…

In order to survive in difficult situations one must give up their compassion for others, and revert back to their primal instincts. The book Night is about a boy how went through the Holocaust, it does an awesome job at showing how people lose compassion for others. As shown in the book many victims were willing to give up their compassion to do anything that would keep them alive. Some were even willing to kill, most didn’t want to kill they would just harm others, and even then some reverted…

concentration camp in Nazi Germany. It was established in March 1933 on the outskirts of Dachau (17 km from Munich). During the entire period of the camp existence, there were imprisoned 250 thousand people from 24 countries, about 70 thousand were brutally tortured or killed, 140 thousand transferred to other concentration camps, 30 thousand survived until liberation. It is known that in Dachau the prisoners were subjected to illegal "medical experiments." During the 2nd World War 1939-45 camp…