Nazi concentration camps

like during the war. The Book Thief and Night are both set during World War II. The time period may be the same but the point of view is different. Night is written about a jewish boy’s experience of going through the harsh conditions that the Nazis condemned upon them. The boy faced starvation…

In the novel Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist Elisha struggles throughout the night with the moral dilemma he faces over the task of killing English Captain John Dawson. In the beginning Elisha is determined, selfish and intelligent. His human potential is developing and he is trying to self-fabricate his morality. He grows as a knower and respects the innate dignity of others, but throughout the novel some of his decisions steer him away from his morality. After he meets Gad and joins The…

This is the story of a young boy named Eli Wiesel who survived several concentration camps. The story night is about a young teenager who has lost his faith in God, humanity, and himself. Eli stayed strong, but after nothing is getting better he starts to lose his faith in God. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me, why should we praise his name?”(33). He feels as if praying is pointless because no progress is happening. His loss in faith begins when he starts doubting God and in…

The novel “A Night Divided” written by Jennifer A. Nielsen tells the story of a brave girl from Germany who goes on a adventure to reunite her family due to the spasmodic rise of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall just happen to be built during the time when the father and brother were on the other side. The two sides of Germany were called East Berlin and West Berlin. At the time, Gerta, the main character, was living in the East with her brother, Fritz, and mother, while the rest of her family…

Father and son relationships in the Night Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in the concentration camp during World War II. It also shows both helpful and harmful father/son relationships. Mostly between Wiesel and his father but there are also many other examples. As they go through the concentration camp Wiesel and his father bonded over the fear of losing each other. They helped each other in many ways. I believe without one another neither Wiesel nor his father would have…

The term Holocaust refers to Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of European Jews. In the 1850s, European Jews were facing a new form of anti-Jewish prejudice. This hostility and discrimination of Jews came to be known as anti-Semitism. The huge amounts of suffering that took place after the Great Depression and World War I caused several people to search for someone to blame. The theory of anti-Semitism helped many Germans to find the pride they had lost before. Adolf Hitler was a key figure in…

Contrary, Elie was capable of thinking for himself, and took upon the task of caring for his father. Maturity shows through when even as early as wanting to become a writer in Sighet or finding his own religion, and proceeds to follow Elie through each camp. Facing danger head on, he is tenacious in his effort to stay alive. Joshua, plays hide-and-seek with danger, and holds a steady optimism throughout. Joshua’s motive to play the game was to win a tank, but Elie played the game to stay alive. …

sent to concentration camps because they were not members of Hitler’s master “Aryan Race.” Most of these people were Jews, homosexuals, blacks, and the disabled. Some people did not even survive the journey to the camps because they were not strong enough to endure the train ride. Others were immediately sentenced to death upon arrival at the camps. The largest and most notorious of all concentration camps was located in Poland and was (and is still today) known as Auschwitz. This camp was a…

of the concentration camps in World War II named Elie Wiesel writes a book called “Night”, telling the readers about his experience in the concentration camp and all how traumatizing the experience was and how it has left him scarred of the camp. The themes discussed in this essay are, Hope, Brutality, and Terror. To begin this essay the first theme spoken about is Terror. Terror is one of the main themes in the book “Night”, for as the events Elie went through in the concentration camp are…

esteem among everyone in the Jewish community of Sightet, but was not a man to show his feelings to his family. His dad tried to be strong for Elie as long as he could for the sake of Elie’s survival. When Elie’s family was split men from women at the camp, he did not know it would be the last time he would see his mother and…