Extermination camp

Research Paper This Way to Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, was a very vivid and gruesome reading it showed the horrors and terrors of the inhumane acts the S.S. men had done during World War II in the concentration camps. Although the author himself being a survivor of the atrocities and nightmarish times of WWII in Nazi Germany one reading this story might find it too direct and descriptive. This style of writing to many readers might be too much for them to handle but I believe…

main character was a very observant boy who was also very dependant on his parents. He was only 15 years old when the Nazis came for 15,000 Jews who lived in his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in 1944. Auschwitz is the name of a death concentration camp where 1 million Jews were held captive including Eliezer and his family. Within minutes of arrival, Eliezer’s mother and his…

The Effect of Long-Term Solitary Confinement Communication and social interaction is the foundation of all human relationship. In 2009 author and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande’s “HellHole”, an article in New Yorker magazine on what's happening in prisons across America. In the article, Gawande describes that humans are social animals, explaining that “once humans are stripped of consistent social interaction, they began to lose their minds.” Through his personal creditability, detailed emotional…

The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, describes the hardships of Ben Kamm, a Jewish boy, and his family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Ben lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. He and his family managed to survive for a couple of months in the Warsaw Ghetto with a little help from family and friends. Ben had joined the partisans in hope of helping himself,…

Who is Elijah Doughty? Well, the more appropriate and unfortunate question is, who was Elijah Doughty? How could a normal August day, in the small town of Kalgoorlie, end in tragedy for such a young boy?This is Remembering Elijah Doughty. As the story broke, of a 14-year old Kalgoorlie boy passing away, in a collision between a Ute and a small dirt bike (which the boy was riding) the country was shocked. As the day progressed, more information surfaced about the driver of the Ute and how this…

threatening event and lived to tell about it” (Calhoun). A group of individuals it affects are Holocaust survivors. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger survives the consequences of WWII. Although she was not a Jew who went to concentration camps, she still experiences trauma that would leave someone scarred for life. What she experiences during the holocaust was the death of her brother and hiding a Jew. Before Meminger knew it, she turns out to be the sole survivor on Himmel…

Physically Free, Emotionally Bound Connor Alforque explores David Fengel’s inspiring story from extreme depravity and captivity to his freedom journey home. Will David’s long and agonising ordeal inside a concentration camp deprive him of finally experiencing true freedom, or can he radically rebuild his mind after the experiences he endured during his excruciating past? Held captive and abandoned, David’s mind was in darkness, his eyes were blind to the outside world and David was…

tells the story of Mawi and the difficulties, hardships, and experiences that he faces in the refugee camp in Umsagata, Sudan in the early 1980's. In differeation to my life, Mawi had to experience a lot of difficulty in the camp; there were brutal beatings in and out of the schoolhouse, famine and disease were always a threat, and armies were always looking for draft refugees. At the refugee camp, there were brutal and ruthless beatings inside and outside of the schoolhouse. In the schoolhouse…

A Holocaust survivor named Eugene Black was sent to a Jewish camp in 1944 in Hungary. He worked where all the Nazi’s made their V1 and V2 rockets underground. He worked 12-14 hours without sleep or food. So he ended up getting pneumonia, luckily he got saved by a German doctor. He got out on April 15th afterwards he felt survivor’s guilt because he lost his whole family besides his older brother who was working for the Czech Army, this is an example of survivor’s guilt. Survivor's guilt exactly…

article ‘There’s More to Life Than Being Happy’ (The Atlantic: June 2013) discusses the ideas in a book written by Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist who was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl concludes that camp prisoners who had found meaning in their life were more satisfied and therefore more likely to survive. Those that had merely been happy in life found it harder to keep a good morale and were less likely to…