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Ellie Wiesel is considered to be one of the most prominent Jewish authors during the World War II era. Wiesel, through-out his life, has written many books portraying the vast accounts of social injustice the Jews experienced during the War. Wiesel’s critically acclaimed “Night” tells of these atrocities first hand and what he witness at a very young age. Ellie Wiesel is known for his striking imagery and colorful use of words to display the brutally of the Nazi regime in 1940s Europe. Across…

In Bernard Schlink 's novel, The Reader, the story centers around a middle-aged women named Hanna, who is at trial for being part of the SS unit at the Nazi 's concentration camp in Auschwitz. She is accused of allowing 300 Jewish women to parish while being stuck in a burning church. During her trial it becomes apparent that Hanna is illiterate and can 't defend herself properly. She is embarrassed at the fact that she is illiterate and does not want to let anyone know of her inability. This…

After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and the Nazi Party took power in Germany lives of Jews, Gypsies, and many other racial groups changed drastically. The Holocaust would become one the the most infamous events today's world knows. The crimes committed under the Nazi regime would affect millions of people leaving a horrific impression on the world for its eternity. A major asset to the Nazis awful massacre of the non-Aryan race was Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz is a 40…

Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is set in World War II, when Jewish concentration camps were formed. At the beginning of Schindler's List you are unable to tell if Oskar Schindler is kind, you think this because he buys clothes from the black markets and goes out drinking with all the German soldier’s to form a working friendship. Which helps Oskar to get Jewish people working for him in his newly form “Pots ‘n’ Pans” business, with a Jewish accountant running the accounts side…

Minors’ participation in war was first mentioned in antiquity. During 1800s, it had become a common scene for youths to serve as aides and charioteers bearers to adult warriors in the Mediterranean basin. In the West, the youths were caught up in the overwhelming tide of patriotism through 1900s. During the cause of World War I, a huge number of boys around the age of 12 were cheerfully enrolled for active service, to serve in the bloodiest battles of the war. In World War II, children…

The Sobibor camp was the smallest of all Nazi owned concentration camps during World War II (Bulow). Construction of Sobibor lasted three months, from March until May of 1942 (USHMM), and was undertaken by eighty Jews from ghettos around Lublin (HEART). It was built around the Eastern part of the Lublin district of Poland (USHMM), very close to the Chelm-Wlodawa railway line that was used to transport the Jews into Sobibor. Sobibor was also five kilometers away from the Bug River which is the…

During World War II, five to six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Milkweed, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things In Books,” and “The Guard,” are all about children experiencing a cruel life during the Holocaust. In these excerpts and poem the narrator views that Nazis in alike yet different in various ways. In the three excerpts, Milkweed, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books,” and “The Guard,” all show many similarities on how the narrator views…

Gregory Maguire has remarked, “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of ”(Goodreads). During WWII, Hitler believed that what he was doing to millions of innocent people was for the good of his nation. This makes him a truly evil character in history. The prisoners of his death factories included the Jewish people, Roma, homosexuals, and political…

Elie Wiesel started off as a fourteen year old kid. He lived in Sighet, Transylvania. When it was Passover, a Jewish holiday, the persecution of the Jewish people began. Jews were not allowed to leave their homes for three days and they had to wear a yellow star. They later had to be 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…

Mengele Essay Josef Mengele. “Angel of Death” they called him. A Nazi Medical Expert who experimented on the prisoners at the Nazi Death Camp of Auschwitz. We can say that he most likely had a screw loose as , being drafted in, did this willingly. He called these acts of torture “Medical Experiments.” But we're not here to talk about that right now. We're here to talk about Mengele himself. His experiments can wait for a different essay. On March 16, 1911, Mengele was born. From then on he…