Nazi concentration camps

Helen “Zippi” Spitzer Tichauer, one of the only few Auschwitz survivors, opens up and shares her testimony of how she survived, the horrible nightmare that was the holocaust. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp, in Poland. Over a million Jewish lives were taken from this appalling event. In the book, Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor, it goes into detail on Zippi’s life. Now at the age of ninety, Zippi is one of the last living holocaust survivors. This book gives her oral interview,…

Often a person can be conditioned to do a certain behavior, either by their own actions or influences from others, sometimes without realizing it. In two different novels that share a similar theme of racism, A Walk in The Night by Alex La Guma, and Maru by Bessie Head, the act of conditioning is explored. A Walk in The Night follows many different characters throughout the novel but mostly centers around the actions of Michael Adonis. Michael is a person of color in a coastal city of South…

In the novel, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl was a look at what life was like in the Holocaust camp Frankl’s own eyes, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz. Frankl was searching for meaning in his own life. He wanted to figure out what his life meant to him, especially what he went through. A person can suffer something in their life and that person can either sulk and allow their life to not be a good one, or that person can make something out of their suffering and life their life. A…

During this tumultuous and stressful experience at the concentration camp, Elie made a split second decision that his cousin 's mental stability was necessary in order to survive. This can be seen in our times, for example at a funeral there are some people who may comfort the grieving by saying “I know what you…

Night Looking deeper into this memoir, one can see that the traumatic journey had a great effect on Elie physical, mental, and spiritually. Some may say that Elie lost his faith in God during his endeavors in the concentration camp, but personally I would disagree he completely loses his faith. Ultimately, I do not think Elie lost his faith throughout his journey, although certain situations in the book lead the reader to believe that Elie had finally had enough. Many times Elie questioned…

1940’s during World War ll. This was at a concentration camp, Auschwitz. In the whole story, it was about Elie and his father's struggle to survive in concentration camps. The holocaust was the most traumatic experience in history, this included the leader, Hitler, with his followers, the German Nazi’s. Throughout Night, Elie’s relationship with his father changes from a distant one to a closer one when his father takes care of him in the concentration camp, after his father gets sick and Elie…

of how religious he is and how much he prays at camp. Not only does Eliezer pray for himself but he prays for every other Jew in the camps with his family and him. Eliezer is a very profound person because of how much he has gone through. He has also gotten through most of the stuff at the camps. “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” page 4. Elie said this to himself when he realized he was going to be at the camps for quite a while. He prays every night before…

being taken to many Concentration camps and the hardships he faced there. In the beginning Elie is studying to become a Jewish Rabbi, but quickly loses faith after entering Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie is an author who also wrote Dawn and Day. In the novel ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because of the cruelty, losing hope in humanity, and losing his faith in God. Elie faced a lot of cruelty in concentration camps. For example, as…

pretty harsh for every one is the Holocaust, like these three father and sons. All three of them survived for a while but only Elie and his father made it out. All three of them were at the same camp. They all had to run for many miles to the camp that they were going to but they couldn’t stay at the camp. Rabbi and the man who stole the bread had their sons betray them. Elie and his father had once felt like leaving his father behind in order to move on like Rabbi’s son did to him. Elie, his…

Survival in the Holocaust Imagine you haven’t had food in weeks; you’ve been put in a situation where survival is rare. If you had a chance to get through it, would you do it? Even if it meant risking your life? Survival is a human necessity. Many people will go against all odds just to survive; this was very true in the time of the Holocaust. To live during the Holocaust, people took risks, were lucky, or just never gave up. Many of the Jews took risks in order to survive through the Holocaust.…