Nazi concentration camp survivors

In grade 10 Canadian History, one of the topics students cover is the Holocaust. In the 2015-2016 grade 10 challenge class at L.C.V.I. students studied both MAUS and Night. Both MAUS and Night show the stories of Holocaust survivors, however, the protagonist in MAUS becomes a Nazi prisoner earlier during World War Two than the protagonist in Night. Both of these books can be used to teach students about the Holocaust, however, they are different books in a variety of ways. Night, by Elie Wiesel…

the Kabbala one day. He is ignorant to the horrors of the concentration camps, as are many of the people around him. After he is liberated, he has little desire to go on living and barely recognizes himself upon seeing his own reflection. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (p. 115) Elie Wiesel experienced horrible things in the concentration camps, as detailed in Night, and they scarred him for the rest of…

The Dehumanization of Jews by Hitler and the Nazi Regime Hitler and his Nazi regime used effective tactics to dehumanize and degrade the Jewish people, and reduced them to nothing but small beings that they could then rid themselves of. Some of these tactics were small, and some of the tactics were large. No matter the size, all of these tactics were completely inhumane and horrifying. Sadly, they also all took place in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. His memoir can attest to how…

The physical abuse and corruption of power within the leadership of the camp and ghettos changed his mindset entirely. The Jews’ first experience of physical abuse is when the Jews were forced to line up in the smoldering heat, “The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and…

survive the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the world today, there are many tragedies that happen every single day such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and fires, where people lose friends, families, homes and their valuables. The theme “Emotional Death is very evident in the book night by Elie Wiesel, and is still very evident in the world today. The first example from Night of the theme “Emotional Death” is when Moishe was trying to warn others about the concentration camps, but no one…

death, and where his God “were killed”. Throughout the story, the author showed that a person’s faith in God can be tested when he or she had to suffer from starvation, struggling, and witnessing people who were massively killed under the order of the Nazis. At the beginning, the faith of Elie Wiesel was questioned by himself as he saw the adults, children, men, and women who…

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Beautiful friendship can only be received if there is understanding between each person. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is about two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn, New York, towards the end of World War II era. A disagreement between two contradicting viewpoints of the same religion about the Jewish homeland and tradition is what causes a stir of emotion that becomes the basis of…

an unsung hero because he always put his life at risk to help others that were wounded, to retrieve them, to give them their last rites, not minding the fact that he could be shot dead at any time. He also risked his life many times in prisoner war camp to help his friends who were hungry, sick, or needed spiritual needs while suffering in this prison. Until he himself was ill and could no longer walk. Father Emil Kapaun was a selfless person who dedicated his life to his soldiers. Father…

Morris Gleitzman’s fictional novel, ‘Once and Then’ teaches us that everyone in life needs to see the world in a different way. Gleitzman shows this by using the perspective of a little Jewish boy. Felix’s dangerous, yet very meaningful journey to find his parents also shows that even though Felix is a child he can play such an important role in showing the reader what really happened. During the Holocaust, Jewish people had some hard times. Getting relocated, losing family members, but one…

Humanization Denied The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a story of a young boy who goes through the holocaust from the time the Germans took over his home town of Sighet to the time he was set free from the Germans and their concentrations camps that totally stripped away their faith, all their rights, human qualities and for some the will to live. This is all due to by the way they were treated and made to feel like they were no longer humans. To define dehumanizing is to say to deprive one of…