Sleepaway Camp

Political strategist, Reed Galen, in his article, We’re Past Thoughts and Prayers, clarifies the importance of past tragedies and to always remember those horrific events and lives lost during them. Galen’s purpose is to inform people so they do not forget, but remember these massacres. He adopts a contemplative tone in order to get the people reading this article to feel some sort of sorrow, and also want them to make a difference. In order to portray his feelings and thoughts, he uses many…

Hiding and Seeking was Menachem Daum’s film that gave a social presentation Jews in German occupied Poland with the reaction of subsequent generations. The film shows the experience of two Jewish men gaining firsthand knowledge about their grandfather by their father’s trip to Poland through their reconsideration of personal views. The views of the two men evolved from an intolerant, anti-gentile view to a more accepting view of gentiles. Their grandfather had personally experiences which caused…

history. However, what happened after the survivors were freed from the concentration camps? The Long Way Home is a documentary directed by Mark Jonathan Harris that combines footage, images, and interviews of the survivors ' to shed light on one of the most overlooked periods in Jewish history. Harris uses the material to describe the hardships faced by the people supposedly liberated from Nazi concentration camps and how they survived the horrific conditions. When combined, the documentary…

multi-award winning film produced by Mark Herman, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is set during World War II. The film is seen through the eyes of eight-year-old Bruno, the son a commander of a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of a concentration camp fence has dreadful consequences. The film evaluates themes such as the beauty of the innocence of childhood, the relationships of specific individuals, and the boundaries of those individuals.…

Elie Wiesel, a winner of the Nobel peace prize, was a young boy at the time of the holocaust. He encountered first hand the countless horrors of the concentration camps which included the torture and mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Wiesel wrote these numerous terrors in a book entitled Night in order to bring to light and preserve these unimaginable occurrences that stand as a dark time in our world's history. The title of this memoir, Night, is directly correlated with the…

in the concentration camps. They are both male and sadly the only ones to survive the Holocaust in their family. When Elie was being transported into Auschwitz he had to ride in some sort of trains which is similar to Jaques because he too had to ride a train to Auschwitz. The trains contained many people and were typically packed. There would also be casualties within the trains because people would be crushed to death or die from terrible weather conditions. The first camp they both went to…

Wiesel first arrives at the camp he is seperated from his mom and sisters, unfortunately he did not know that it would be the last time he would ever see them, “I saw them disappear into the distance . . . And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel, 29). Even after Wiesel lost his mother and sister, he contines to suffer because he experiences more death and maltreatment in the concentration camps. As Wiesel and his father…

belief of God impacted these characters will show you how Night and Maus resemble and differ from one another. In Maus, the story is told from Vladek’s perspective and how Vladek was trying to keep his family safe while avoiding the concentration camps and death. While in the book Night ,we view the perspective from Elie’s eyes while he was trying to survive…

How does the poet create themes of hopelessness and what effect does it have on the reader? The poem Refugee Blues, describes the time during the Jew holocaust, where two refugees together lost all rights and freedom in their country. Throughout the poem, themes of hopelessness and isolation were conveyed throughout. The poet Auden does this by using various techniques and language devices. This has an effect on the readers as they start sympathizing for the two refugees in this poem. Auden…

ordered by Hitler to gather all Jews. The Jews are moved to concentration camps, first to Auschwitz then to Buchenwald. The Holocaust was a horrifying time for the Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he captures the story of his and his father’s struggle for their freedom. Jews were treated as they were inferior to the guards and Hitler. In addition, Elie experiences dramatic events in the camps. The longer he stays in the camps, the more he is discriminated and reminded that he isn’t…