Ghetto

When the zoo became a pig farm in 1940, Jan used it as an excuse to go into the ghetto and smuggle Jews out. I certainly would not be able to leave my life's profession behind and become a pig farmer in a matter of days. The book opened my eyes to the horrendous truth of what happened. Within the book it is written that “For sport,…

diary of Miriam Wattenberg (“Mary Berg”) was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust"(“Children Diaries”). Her story was mostly about her family, and how they got transferred to the Warsaw ghetto. All the diaries that many people found in the past, of the holocaust. Tells numerous individuals, about the children, teenagers, adult’s lives in the holocaust. Also from them, that’s how we know so much deep background on what was happening…

Night, a personal account of the Holocaust by Elie Wiesel was a profound book. Weisel, thirteen when the book began and was sixteen when the camp was liberated, had lived in both ghettos in Sighet. When he was deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz he almost sent entered the crematorium but he marched passed it and was lucky enough to live there for three weeks. Later in the novel he had transferred between many other camps. His last and final camp was liberated in 1945. Hitler did not…

friends, hiding her in a spare room in their house. Eventually, they decided it would be best to house more residents of the ghettos. Under the guise of a new pig farm, and gaining the favor of Lutz Heck, the Warsaw Zoo managed to gain entry to the ghettos to obtain scraps for their pigs. These scraps are what they used to smuggle over 300 innocent people out of the ghetto throughout the course of the war. By the end of the movie, they were caught. Heck locked Antonia in a cage and feigned…

1960s, civil rights activists set forth an agenda to end the divide between blacks and the predominantly white society. Unequal wages, racial injustice, and violence within ghettos led to black Americans demanding legislative change from the government. Violence spread wildly due to urban areas rioting. Residents of ghettos felt the riots began in Harlem in 1964, “between angry black and the predominantly white police,” (Foner, 1000). Segregation and poverty were thought to be the cause of the…

By then the Nazis had killed about 6 million Jews, including Ben’s family. In the end the event was known as the holocaust. When Ben was with the persians the Nazis burned the ghetto his family was living in and took all survivors to labor and death camps. Ben lived on through the war and into a new life. Ben married and moved to America where he raised a family and a happy life. Ben learned to have a normal life after the holocaust…

On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler rose to power as the head of the right-wing National Socialist German Workers Party (called "the Nazi Party" for short). His election came with the hope that he would be able to lead Germany out of its grave political and economic crisis. Of the many policies that Hitler enacted once in power many of them were directed toward limiting individual freedoms such as freedom of press, speech, and assembly. While limited rights on a national scale were the beginning…

Insanity is a major theme in night because it affects the people at the concentration camps,for all the traject killing and suffering that is happening during that period of time. When Mrs. Schachter screams repeatedly about a fire that she kept envisioning before the others. This supports the theme because of her crazy behavior. For example,when she was separated and crammed in with numerous of people in a train she kept shouting about a fire she continued to see. Consequently,making the Jews…

Dehumanization The Holocaust began January 30th in 1933 and ended May 8th of 1945. It happened during World War II. This Holocaust was also sometimes known as Shoah was ran by Adolf Hitler. Hitler plan was to exterminate all Jewish people. Hitler and others such as Dr. Josef Mengele and also many Nazi’s help kill approximately, six million Jews. Dehumanization was a part of the process. Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person of positive human qualities. In the novel, Night the…

down on the Ghetto he saw something. He saw the lives of innocent people being ruined and families torn apart. People were filled with horror as they hid in the dark floors and small places in their homes hoping to survive. Some were chased down and many shot right next to their family. Another thing that he saw was the little girl in the red jacket. When he first saw her she was running to find the hiding spot that could save her life. She was hiding because they were liquidating the ghetto.…