Leah Krainz Miss Marchek and Mrs. Wood AP English Language and Composition 10 October 2012 Comparing the Effectiveness of Elie Wiesel and Russell Baker Elie Wiesel’s text “The Perils of Indifference” and Russell Baker’s text “Happy New Year?” convey a common underlying message: succumbing to social culture for the sake of acceptance has consequences. This message is explained in each work through the usage of Wiesel and Baker’s ethos‚ pathos‚ tone‚ figurative language‚ and rhetorical questioning
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Hitler and because of that‚ many innocent lives were taken away without a reason. This‚ however‚ we did not engage in World War 2 for the Jews. When Elie Wiesel was 15‚ he and his family were deported from Hungary and placed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Around 90% of the Jews there were killed. His mother and younger sister were murdered‚ and his father was beaten to death. Wiesel and his two older sisters were later reunited in an orphanage‚ the three of them had survived the Holocaust
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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet‚ Transylvania. When he was fifteen years old he and his family were sent to Auschwitz by the Natzis. His two older sisters lived through this experience‚ yet his mother and younger sister died. His dad died later on(The Elie Wiesel Foundation). Elie Wiesel was influenced to write by the impact the holocaust had on him and his family. After experiencing and surviving the holocaust Elie moved to France and began to write about the holocaust and informing others
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Japanese-Americans who were killed in the internment camps is unknown but over 127‚00 were put into the labor camps and about 7% of them died from hunger‚ dehydration or other unnatural causes such as executions. Japanese-Americans and Jews were both excluded of citizenship for either their nationality or religion. Jews were put in these concentration camps from 1933 to around 1945 by Hitler and the German army. Japanese-Americans were put in the internment camps around the year of 1945 through 1946 or 1947
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silence encouraged the Nazis to gain strength and reach the magnitude of eventually massacring six million Jews. "I did not move. I was afraid‚" (37) said the character Eliezer in Night. That quote refers to when his father is beaten at the concentration camp and Eliezer just stood there watching it and doing nothing to stop it. The setting of the story Night takes place in a small town of Transylvania in 1941. To this day Wiesel still feels guilty about his inaction. The silence of the victims and
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doctors went to concentration camps to aid the injured. Approximately 30 doctors were stationed in Auschwitz to tend to the Jews ’ wounds and perform necessary surgeries. Out of those doctors came the infamous Josef Mengele‚ famous for his unique preferences in the medical field. Dr. Mengele ’s experiments were cruel‚ demeaning‚ and inhumane toward twins. Mengele ’s cruelty and fascination for twins led him to be one of the most well-known doctors of the Holocaust. While in Auschwitz Mengele performed
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Jewish culture has several languages. There are those‚ like Hebrew and Aramaic‚ that are typically used in more scholarly settings‚ though recently Hebrew has had its revival and can be widely spoken and used by Jewish people everywhere‚ particularly in Israel. There is Yiddish‚ the language typically spoken in the home‚ with a common ancestor to the German language. Other regional languages exist within the Jewish community‚ such as Ladino or Judeo Arabic‚ but Jewish people also often learn the
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Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16‚ 1911 and died on February 7‚ 1979; also he was nicknamed The Angel of Death ( became the surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler’s “ Final Solution”)‚ along with the other Nazi doctors at the death camps tortures men‚ women and children and did medical experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Mengele enjoyed it he would put on his best uniform and even meeting trains when he wasn’t scheduled to do so also because of his good looks snappy uniform and
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Concentration Camps Did you realize that over 1 million people died at the Auschwitz camp!Auschwitz was the biggest concentration camp.It was the only camp left after the end of World War 2. Concentration camps were designed to remove Jews from Europe. They were a strenuous and cruel place to live. The concentration camps were created in 1933-1945 by Hitler and the Nazis. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp. Hitler and the Nazis made Jews‚ and people they did not like‚ build the camps
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stayed in a hospital for a couple of weeks to have an operation for his foot. During his stay the war was getting closer and the kappos were planning evacuation. The two options were either to stay and die‚ or survive‚ or to evacuate with everybody in camp. “As for me‚ i was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had already suffered so much‚ endured so much together. This was not the moment to separate.” (Wiesel 82). Even though his foot was still healing‚
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