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    Jewish people were who got treated like animals during the Holocaust the most. Some that were in the concentration camps and the time period are still alive today. We can easily notice the personality difference and the face which holds all the stress and grief of this world. Something they have not spoken about, something they need to tell is within their eyes. The fear and confidence in their eyes show us that they are ready to give us anything, ready for many things in the world that most…

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    Samo Omar Block D One in a Million The Holocaust was a tragic event where only a low number of people came out alive, Stephen Nasser was one of those that made it out alive. In the Holocaust The Nazi’s, dictated by Adolf Hitler sent their troops all around europe taking away the lives of Jews and sending them to concentration camps as anti-Semitism was occurring at the time. At the age of 13, Stephen Nasser (Pista), his mother and brother Andris were taken to a concentration camp called…

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    The Survivor Syndrome

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    The Holocaust was one of the most documented and widely talked about massacres known to mankind. The torture and devastation that was brought about to the victims of that time is widely documented and memorials and museums have been erected across the globe in remembrance. But the assault and torture that the victims felt was not purely physical but psychological as well. The physical pains, though tremendous, stay with a singular generation for their entire lives. The psychological pains…

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    Morgan Odom Mr. Cianciola DE English Comp Block C 25 September 2017 The Perils of Indifference The speaker of “The Perils Of Indifference,” Elie Wiesel, is a Holocaust survivor and a Nobel Laureate. He experienced injustices and life firsthand during the Holocaust. As a teenager in the year 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazi’s from Hungary to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland . Wiesel…

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    extremist drive a stake in a unified community laying out a foundation of hate. Followed by preparation and extermination this is when victims are separated out, collectively individualized, and then mass murder is the outcome. The last stage being denial, will always follow a genocide. The excuse will be they did it for the “greater good” or they were helping the world. They block investigations, they blame the victims for what happened. They do everything in there power to make their criminal…

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    that—otherwise—would not exist. The incorporation of visual imaging further strengthens the nature of storytelling and offers insight into human imagination. Directors Claude Lanzmann and Steven Spielberg exemplify such qualities in Shoah, a documentary about Holocaust witnesses, and Schindler’s List, a historical drama about a Nazi officer and his transition to hero. Both films offer perspective into life during and after extreme genocide through use of themes, portrayal of characters and…

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    path in the memoir novel Night (1958), wherein the author, Elie Wiesel, recounts how he coped through his own “cocaine” he developed to numb the abuse he was reluctantly pushed through in a concentration camp of Nazi Germany during the peak of the Holocaust: displacement. The mental displacement he made from his surroundings of sorrow he described with their eyes may have been the key to how he survived and never emotionally broke anymore after he developed it, but as one…

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    When someone is tortured and traumatized for long periods of time, their minds and bodies are scarred forever. The Holocaust ruined the lives of millions of Jewish people, including the life of a young man named Elie Wiesel. Wiesel was only a young teenager when the Nazis invaded their town and took him, his family, and his friends to Auschwitz. He witnessed many horrible events that no one should ever have to see. Many years after his liberation, he wrote Night, a book about his experience in…

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    even when the rest of the town hated them. It appears that everyone is against Hans’ beliefs even his son tells him to join the Nazi Party. I think Hans has a distaste for the Nazi’s because of their hatred and unfair treatment of Jews. He states his denial of the party to his family frequently: "Mistakes? I've made many mistakes in my life, but not joining the Nazi Party isn't one of them" (Zusak 104). This explicitly presents how Hans trusts that the Nazi party beliefs are wrong. I also know…

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    not given destiny but the results of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed." (Paulo Freire) Night is written by Ellie Wiesel is his memoir but more about what he experienced during the Holocaust. Elie tells the story of being in the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwalk around the end of the second world war. One of Wiesels' strengths and 90 is to show the full case of dehumanization. Dehumanization is a statement of facts…

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