Nazi concentration camp survivors

changed my way of thinking. The details of the concentration camps and the thought of not knowing when the next meal or if living another day would be an option really touched me. It’s hard to believe something so terrible happened to such innocent people who were just living their everyday lives. Frankl draws the reader into the point where they feel as if they are with him surviving the Holocaust one day at a time. The thought of a concentration camp is not a pleasant one and certainly one…

The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. In Przemysl, Poland, during WWII, the city comes under Nazi control. The Jews are sent to ghettos. Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) sneaks 13 Jews into her attic while raising her little sister. Every day, they risk execution--by smuggling food and water to the silent group living above them. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead, it conveys a message of hope for mankind,…

The Moriori Genocide “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” (Elie Wiesel) What this quote is trying to show is that people should not forget the terrible times when the Jews lived in those horribles concentration camps. Although the concentration camps were terrible, that has happened in other parts of the world, in a similar manner as the Jews. The Moriori tribe was in a terrible situation of being almost killed by enemies and some other people living around the same place.…

Life in the Ghettos Ghettos are an urban section of a city serving as compulsory residential quarter for Jews. Ghettos were generally surrounded by a wall shutting if off from the rest of the city. The Germans created a station in which hard labor, malnutrition, overcrowding, and substandard contributed to the death of a large number of Jews. For every ghetto, the German authorities appointed a Judenrat, which was usually composed of Jewish leaders acceptable to the community. Ghetto life was…

mother to keep one another happy? Elie Wiesel is the main person who always stayed strong through all this no matter what. Elie was fifteen years old when he was put in the concentration camps Elie lost his mother and his 7 year old little sister when he was fifteen-years-old and his father in concentration camps.The concentration camps were located in Auschwitz and Buchenwald . This all took place from 1944-1945,this also happend the time of the holocaust toward the end of the second world…

political prisoners. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the Nazis use dehumanization to strip the Jewish people of everything that makes them human. The physical tool that the concentration camps hadson its victims changes them into something inhuman and unrecognizable.…

crowded into two ghettos. Even though they were forced to live in the ghettos, they lived their normal lives with no concern. One day, Elie's father was summoned to a meeting with the Jewish council. He returns with news that they had to be deported to camps. Elie and his family are scheduled to leave in the last group of Jews. They later moved into the smaller ghetto until it was time to be deported. The remaining Jews crowded into cattle wagons. Inside the train,…

opening statement to be something that not many authors of the Holocaust add to their story. This does not discredit those survivors, but it helps establish Miklos Nyiszli’s story. Despite all the terrible events that he has witnessed, I trust that he is telling the truth from his perspective. I understand that Dr. Miklos Nyiszli is trying…

Mahmud Darwish is a Palestinian poet who lived during the time Palestine was given up to Israel and the Jews. He wrote many poems about Palestine's struggles and their hatred for the Jewish people. “To Our Land” speaks about the struggles the Palestinian people had when they were kicked out of their homes and forced to leave. He writes to his old home and old life. He starts off by writing, “to our land, and it is the one near the word of God.” He is most likely talking about being near Mecca,…

The Jewish holocaust started in 1933. Every Jew living in a country controlled by Germany was sent to a concentration camp and was either killed or was on forced labor. The author of the novel Night, Elie Wiesel, was sent to a concentration camp with his family in Auschwitz in 1944. Few years after the holocaust ended, he decided to write a book about his experience in the concentration camp to show the world what happened during the holocaust. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is about humanity…