Nazi concentration camps

Ethical Themes Paper: An Ethical Analysis of Primo Levi’s Experience in Auschwitz Esca Koegelenberg 11/20/17 Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish prisoner of war, that was captured and sent to work at Auschwitz a concentration camp in Poland during World War II. During his time here Primo experienced many ethical issues and struggled to survive. In this paper I will be analyzing the moral decisions that were made how they were faced and how my view has been impacted by…

In Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl documents in great details his time as an inmate at Auschwitz in his book where he ties in his personal experiences and analyzes existential concepts concerning the human psyche. While exploring whether human existence is contingent on a person’s responsible-ness, even in the most extreme and unpleasant situations, Frankl illuminates on key ideas concerning suffering, human existence, and the meaning of life. This paper will be exploring…

The amount of light that came through showed how the were stuck in the same cycle and did not have a way out. The less light that came, the less free the person was, making them trapped. The uncertainty of the camp came with “prisoners were not allowed to carry watches”(21). This made sure that the men did not comprehend when and where they were and at what hour, making them do more service. The benefits came to the higher power considering that they ended up…

With marks all over their face, eyes red and weary, and dying for even the slightest bit of food, the prisoners faced the harsh conditions of the gulag to barely survive each day in their never-ending prison sentence. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, over 15-30 million Zeks died during the Stalinist era, displaying the extreme difficulty of surviving. In the novella, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn investigates the most intriguing aspect of life in the gulag:…

the U.S. military fighting in World War II. He is also a prisoner of war. These “POW camps” the men were held in are smothering holes of despair and defeat for the prisoners who get locked in its clutches. “Iron must be beaten while it’s hot; soldiers must be beaten while they’re fresh (Unbroken p.194).” In chapter eighteen of Unbroken, Louie and Phil are practically fighting for their lives in the Japanese POW camp they were taken to. The prisoners are subjected to heavy abuse from their…

struggle through the conditions of being in the camp. They were physically and mentally abused and they began to lose faith in god. “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows…” (Night, 65). They not only lost faith in god but hey lost faith in the ability to survive and all of mankind itself. Elie and his father struggled every moment of their life in the concentration camps. They both along with the…

emotions. This was especially present when Eliezer's father died. It was very sad because Eliezer's father had been through so much already being in the concentration camp itself, but died crying out for Eliezer. He was also so close to being free from the camp. A lot of emotions were also present when Eliezer finally made it out of the concentration camp. It was very emotional because he was one of the very few people who made it out of Aushcwitz. These pages also showed the two literary…

There were many concentration camps during World War II, however, Buchenwald is one of the most known. Buchenwald was one of the largest camps with there being around 240,000 prisoners. Buchenwald was a death camp that had very brutal conditions, so some people survived, escaped, or died. War criminals at Buchenwald went through trials or even faced death as a punishment. Buchenwald was the fear of Jewish people during World War II. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps during…

beginning was great but when they took him to a camp his life had changed dramatically. After that he was liberated and had a normal life. Elie was born on September 30, 1928 he lives with his mom and dad.He was the only boy in the family But he did have to sisters.His dad was a grocer and his mom stayed at home. Elie then was a 15 year old kid getting sent to Auschwitz, he had the number A-7713 was tattooed on his left arm.The concentration camps were bad Elie had to watch his dad get killed…

diseases spread quickly in the camp (“Auschwitz was the largest camp”). There were also many vermin and rats living with the prisoners (“Living Conditions, Labor & Executions”). Therefore, prisoners struggled to survive in the unsanitary conditions (“Auschwitz was…