experienced corrupt treatment in their everyday lives. Many immoral situations occurred during the Holocaust and a few of these can be seen in Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Borowski recounts various unethical situations and feelings that he witnessed and experienced that correlate with immoral situations and feelings of Holocaust scientists and their experiments. While some claims following may be controversial, all views on the topic should be considered to provide the greatest understanding possible. Thus the Holocaust was riddled with immoral behavior that is mirrored in Borowski’s retelling of the everyday life of a standard prisoner and the lives of those involved with the scientific experiments such as Dr. Josef Mengele’s work with children and dwarfs. While most prisoners were forced to endure horrific living conditions, certain prisoners, as well as certain scientific subjects, lived in better accommodations. In Borowski’s retelling of his time in a concentration camp, certain men, referred to as Canada men, have power in the camp because they have food and are not constantly hungry. However, they receive this food from new transports of people who are sent to the gas chambers. While some of this food is used to barely nourish all the prisoners in the concentration camp, the Canada men receive larger quantities because they aid in the process of unloading the new transports. Their extra food is a form of payment for volunteering to do…
I read the novel named Night by Elie Wiesel. After reading this novel, I understood that there were various lessons that you could take. The moral that I took from this heartbreaking novel is one which nobody will have the capacity to overlook; when faced with racism and prejudice, religious faith can be shaken. The characters that represent this theme in the story are Elie Wiesel, the author of this nonfiction autobiography, Elie’s father, Moishe the Beadle, Idek and Dr. Josef Mengele. All of…
Dr. Josef Mengele Josef Mengele was a ruthless man who did not care for humanity. He had no mercy for the people he heartlessly abused. He was a very cruel and pitiless man. He did so many things that physically, mentally, and emotionally affected the lives of Jews. The most common thing that he did was testing on twin children. He often tested their minds or physical features. He was fascinated by twin children. Josef Mengele grew up somewhat normal. He was the oldest of 3 sons. He had a…
Josef Mengele, The Angel of Death Josef Mengele was an important and influential person in history that had a negative impact on the world because he medically experimented on the members of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany into a wealthy family. His father, Karl Mengele, owned a local plant that manufactured farming equipment. His mother, Walburga Mengele, was very demanding and had a very short temper (“The Life of Josef…
Josef Mengele was born in 1911 to Karl and Walburga Mengele (“Mengele”). He came from a very rich family. His father worked as a manufacturer for a big company. When he was younger, people described him as very intelligent and ambitious. He got accepted into both Munich and Frankfurt University where he studied and got degrees in both philosophy and medicine. Mengele became an assistant to Dr. Otmar von Verschuer in 1937 which could have jump-started his interest in twins because of Dr.…
At the German concentration camps, Josef Mengele, conducted depraved experiments by developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses. Many of the people he performed experiments on were Jews and twins. Most of them were tested against their will. He and other doctors performed many experiments, such as the malaria experiments, mustard gas experiments, pharmaceutical testing, spotted fever (typhus) experiments, sulfanilamide experiments, and experiments with…
she learned that the soap they were given was actually made out of human flesh. (Caplan 6) Although they were given food, many people still faced starvation. Based on the needs of the people and the labor that they were doing, the amount of food they were given did not provide the proper amount of nutrition needed to keep their bodies healthy. This also served as a problem after the camps were liberated, due to people overeating and bursting their stomachs. In total, there were twenty-six large…
The Holocaust took six million Jews’ lives. The nazis and Adolf Hitler were in control. There were many concentration camps that took place during this prejudice time. Most people suffered. There were many causes of death. During the year of 1944, Elie and his family were taken into Auschwitz, a traumatizing concentration camp. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel expresses the theme as humanity vs. inhumanity. First, the SS men took away the prisoners’ names, including Elie’s.They also called them…
Horror At Michigan State University A year ago most Americans would not have had any idea who Dr. Larry Nassar was and what he did but today he is the most despised man in America. He was a well respected doctor at Michigan State University who for many years sexually assaulting young women in his role as the lead doctor for United States Gymnastics. Many since they were little girls. More than 265 women were sexually assaulted by Nassar and about half of them testified at his sentencing. Which…
camps, where he conducted dreadful experiments on prisoners with physical deformities until his death in the late 1970s. Still, survivors of his experiments tell stories about their time with the Angel of Death. Josef Mengele had significant experience in his line of work, he had earned two doctorates in his career, one for physical anthropology and one for medicine (Rice). At Auschwitz, Mengele’s standards where all met and he could conduct his studies whenever he wanted. HE was assigned…