During December 27, 1940, Janina Prot was accused of hiding weapons in her tent at Auschwitz concentration camp. When Luna Kloetzel heard news that SS officers were going to check tents, she ran to the closest tent there is, hiding her knife in Prot’s tent, under mud and dirt.…
Gerda Weismann remembers when the war started. She heard shooting coming coming from the roof. Her family moved into the basement of their home to hide. There was no water, electricity, heating, or air conditioning. Her brother was forced into a labor camp shortly after the war started. Gerda says the worst day of her life was on June 28th 1942, it was the last day she saw her father. When she was taken to a concentration camp her and her mom were separated. She was on a truck leaving her mother and she jumped off. The soldiers put her back on the truck and told her she was too young to die. Gerda was taken to a slave labor camp where she got very sick. The woman who ran the camp saved Gerda’s life by making her work even though she was sick.…
The story then focuses on just the experiences of the father and the son. During their time in the labor camps, they are beaten badly on multiple occasions, and go through lots of suffering. In the end, Eliezer's father died right before they were liberated, and Eliezer never managed to find his mother and sisters. The first quote I chose was, "I had watched it all happen without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows. What’s more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo, but at my father." (Page 54). I thought that this quote was very sad, and it even made me feel a little nauseated. I was sickened by the fact that in just a short time in the concentration camp, Eliezer changed so much that he could watch his own father be beaten and not have any feelings of remorse for him. My second quote was, "The Lagerkapo stepped up to the condemned youth. He was assisted by two prisoners, in exchange for two bowls of soup." (Page 62). I was shocked when I read these sentences because it showed Jews taking other Jews to the gallows in exchange for food. But on the other hand, it makes me mad at the Germans because they provided the Jews with so…
3. How do the people Wiesel interacts with strengthen or diminish his hope and desire to live? Talk about his father and the other “inmates” of Auschwitz. Which of their actions provide a significant change in Wiesel? Provide examples from the text.…
Few historical events were as gut-wrenchingly horrifying as the Holocaust. It inspired countless stories in the decades that followed it. One example, Frank Borowski's “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” is a saddening story about a man working at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. It details his experiences collecting the belongings of prisoners who arrived at the camp, and his interactions with another worker. A large portion of the text had the narrator describing various specific prisoners, and thinking about how they affect him. This section presented an ironic incompatibility between two outlooks that is worthy of analysis, and provided indication as to Borowski’s intent for writing the story.…
Gross-Rosen was once a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an act of Genocide. In this case, genocide is a mass of killing a group of people. Gross-Rosen was one of many camps affected by Genocide, people in the camps were dying daily because of this. One of the more well-known victims of the Holocaust is Anne Frank.…
In second text, Woman Called Moses, unlike the first paragraph its purpose is to entertain. It entertains by telling us the story of Harriet Tubman. It tells us the story of how Harriet became…
Initially with the use of point of view, the author depicts Karl as “very pale”, “his mouth sweetly curved” and “his skin fine and girlish” (7). Using the point of view, Erdich depicts Karl to be different compared to the town and to his sister, Mary. The reason Karl the environment has a greater impact on him is because of his contrast to the environment. Then the author uses point of view to depict Mary as “ordinary”, “square and practical”, similar to the town (7). The use of point of view helps Erdich show the similarities to Mary and the town. The reason the environment had little impact on Mary is because of Mary’s similarities to the town. The use of point of view helps Erdich to clearly explain the environments impact on the children.…
When you read, do you ever felt like there is a recording playing in your head, telling the story to you? Have you ever noticed that each writer has a “voice” that is completely their own? Why do all of the great authors have a “sound” exclusive to themselves? Using precise wording and distinctive phrases, writers can manipulate your thoughts and emotions to help the reader understand the content of the literature. This is especially helpful when the subject matter is uncomfortable and harsh, such as the lives of inmates in the Nazi concentration and death camps during World War II. Relating to this book, Wiesel was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Auschwitz for being a Jew, and in particular uses his style to tell the tale of those two camps’…
The majority of Auschwitz victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was the largest mass murdering concentration camp in history. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most unwanted place to go even though prisoners didn’t know where they were going when they were being deported. Many victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau and today that camp is a reminder of the horrible events that took place during the Holocaust.…
There were hundreds, if not thousands of death camps settled across Europe during World War II. But despite the word “death camps”, a term that is used to describe the horrible events of the Holocaust, the historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps, but still, out of all of those, only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, as well as Treblinka were quite large, but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945, the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror to true historical suffering and terror that won’t, and shouldn’t, be forgotten.…
In Primo Levi’s autobiography, Survival in Auschwitz, he identifies some major factors which he can attribute to his survival including the physical state of a prisoner, ability to find companionship and their mental condition, and the timing of liberation. The horrible acts carried out by the captors at Buna, Krankenbau, and Auschwitz concentration and labor camps were not the focus for Levi’s autobiography, yet it was the survival of these acts that was the focus. Primo Levi being an Anti-Fascist Italian Jew from Turin was arrested in December 1943 and sent to a prison camp immediately before being sent to Auschwitz in February 1943. He accounts that millions of Jews were just murdered and cremated upon being deported to the concentration camps.…
The desire for power, fear, and self-preservation can cause people to change in ways one could not imagine. In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Gerda Weissman Klein’s All But My Life, the authors share their tragic experiences from their times in Nazi concentration camps. In Addition, Klein’s All But My Life shows her experience in many different concentration camps for three years and how differently female inmates were treated than male. In Wiesel’s Night, he discusses his experience of being sent to Auschwitz along with his father for a year and how the tragedies he endured transformed his character. In Addition, Klein’s All But My Life shows her experience in many different concentration camps for three years and how differently female…
To Survive in Auschwitz requires luck as well as the strength of one’s personal ability, and physical capability as Primo Levi describes in his book Survival in Auschwitz. Primo Levi an Italian Jew, was 24 when he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944. He managed to survive the horrific memories throughout the Holocaust, one of the most devastating events in history throughout world war II. The Holocaust represent a time when Hitler and his Nazis army killed 6 million Jews men women and children, and an additional 6 million others, in death by starvation, gassing, or brutality.…
He didn't seem to like the name of the museum. The “Holocaust” Museum. Just didn't seem right, ya’ know? Like they reduced it to just that and nothing else, he tried to make it seem like his opinion really didn’t mattered, but this was just their history. This was his story. Now he’s just walking alongside her, her with the fair skin that had gentle freckles the sun gave to her every now and then, bright grey eyes that had tinges of subtle brown like oak. Her hair was long, brown, and swift and her voice, sweet. She was lively and short contrasting his mourning eyes, his tall and thick stature, his blunt voice, and his unruly tightly coiled and cotton hair. He was crushing hard, but he knew her head was elsewhere, on one of the other friends…