Internments

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel describes his life in the concentrations camps of the Holocaust, and his experiences that pushed him into dehumanization. Dehumanization is what the soldiers in the camps tried to do to the prisoners. Make them feel like animals, like they were below even the lowliest of human beings. Leaving them so that their only care in the world is not their family, nor their friends, but their life, and their life alone. Elie begins to show dehumanization in the fourth…

Daily Life in concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To…

Victor E. Frankl, the author of, "Man 's Search For Meaning", talks a great deal about suffering throughout the book. One of the main topics he discusses regarding suffering is that of hope. Without hope, there would be no point in anybody enduring the suffering that they encountered in the Nazi concentration camps. That suffering is life and that to survive suffering, one must find a means for the suffering. So, finding a reason for a person 's suffering will help that person to survive…

Relationships grow and change in numerous ways during a hardship. The struggle causes some people to grow distant from one another, yet forces other relationships to grow stronger from working together to brave the difficult times. The change positive and negative changes in relationships holds true for the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, writes about the hardships endured by prisoners in his memoir Night.…

The novel Fatelessness is about the experiences Gyorgy, a Hungarian Jew, who faced persecution during World War II. He cared little for the world. He had no emotional stake in his family, or his culture. His subsequent imprisonment in German concentration camps initiated an evolution in the outlook of the character. The change was prompted by his own bodily decay and continued throughout his time there. His evolution was spurred again upon his liberation from the camps and the subsequent…

Since the ending of World War II, great controversy has arisen regarding the potential use of the Nazi doctors’ medical experiment findings. Nazi leaders instructed the doctors to perform sickening, gruesome, and terrifying experiments on the inmates of the concentration camps all throughout Europe. These unlawful experiments led the German medical community to gain vast amounts of knowledge regarding the physical limits of the human body under severe circumstances. According to Joel Dimsdale,…

The Holocaust is a well known period in Jewish history. However, what happened after the survivors were freed from the concentration camps? The Long Way Home is a documentary directed by Mark Jonathan Harris that combines footage, images, and interviews of the survivors ' to shed light on one of the most overlooked periods in Jewish history. Harris uses the material to describe the hardships faced by the people supposedly liberated from Nazi concentration camps and how they survived the horrific…

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas portrays the overwhelming experiences of a young lad as he comes to the realization of the happenings around him. Bruno is uprooted from his townhouse in Berlin when his father is granted a promotion by the Führer. The family is then forced to relocate in Poland to reside next to Auschwitz. Upon their arrival, naïve Bruno becomes aware of people in a nearby field, whom he refers to as farmers. As the movie progresses, Bruno begins to comprehend that his new home is…

What would it be like to be sent to a concentration or relocation camp during World War II, would you be able to keep a positive attitude. Well that can depend, if you look at life in a very positive and bright way overall then it might be difficult but you can find the bright side to a difficult situation. For some it might be easier to just lose hope, and to not look on the bright side. Some people however have a strong will and they try their best to look at something in a positive way or…

The Hiding Place Test Matching (1-10) F Where did Corrie go when leaving her prison cell, at Scheveningen, the first time? C Where did Corrie go when leaving her prison cell the second time (3 months aftering being in prison)? A After leaving Scheveningen, where were Betsie and Corrie transported to? J What character earned the nickname Eusie by the ten Boom sisters? I What was the name of the lady who sat next to Corrie in the factory (the lady had a baby in the…