Seventy-five years ago today‚ in a concentration camp in Oświęcim‚ Poland‚ a scientist named Josef Mengele conducted experiments to study the results in war-like scenarios that benefit the Nazis. Mengele was worse than Hitler himself and was one of the most wanted people for capture after WWII ended. Mengele was a notorious doctor responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. The Angel of death had the tasks of deciding whether people would be working in the camp or be sent to the gas chambers‚ and
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In the book‚ “Night”‚ Eliezer Wiesel talked about a boy named Elie from Sighet and he got deported to a concentration camp by the Nazis. They took Elie’s freedom‚ identity‚ family‚ dignity etc. The Nazis treated Jewish people badly and used any kind of way to dehumanize them. Moments of moral ambiguity helped Elie retain his humanity in the face of dehumanizing treatment by staying positive which helped him retain his good qualities as a human. Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how
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and his father are the only family they have left. Sadly‚ this is the tale of many Jewish families during World War II and the holocaust. While Elie is at Auschwitz he and the rest of the people at the concentration camp are put through a series of events that will change their lives forever. The Nazis have an evil system designed to dehumanize every Jewish person they can find. The book Night shows that the fastest way to dehumanize
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when Jews were prosecuted by the Nazis under Hitler’s rule in the years 1933-1945. People who survived the holocaust speak of what they went through; others tell their story through writing. Eliezer Wiesel (Elie) a survivor of the holocaust and he told his story through a book called “Night”. Night is about what Elie lived and thought during Word War II. He speaks of what he felt during the time when little by little he was being moved into one concentration camp into another. Night is a powerful
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teenager that suffers from the Holocaust‚ however hardly survived from it. Night is Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ which along the story we can learn the struggle that Elie had with the harsh condition in the concentration camp and the days with hopeless. “Never shall I forget that night‚ the first night in camp‚ which has turned my life into one long night‚ seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children‚ whose bodies saw turned
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The book Night is about the struggles of being in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. One of the main things recurring in the book to the Jewish people is the dehumanization they went through during this time. The dehumanization through Elie Wiesel‚ Elie’s father‚ and their fellow Jewish people during the time that they were imprisoned at Auschwitz. Actions or things the characters say really shows how much the Nazi’s tore the Jewish people down mentally and physically. Elie Wiesel was
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Holocaust. Eliezer‚ when living in Talmud‚ was the perfect gentle person devoted to God. Suddenly‚ after getting deported to the concentration camp‚ he started to become aware of the horrors that life can reserve and he began to doubt his faith to the point that all values of compassion and charity were vanished. The process of de-humanization which developed in the concentration camps allowed him to see the real nature of selfish human beings‚ and after this experience his beliefs would never go back to
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Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie went through ghettos and later on was separated from his and sister; luckily he was with his father. At the concentration camp the people worked hard labors and lived like as slaves from 1944 to the day of liberation (1945). The author’s purpose for writing this novel was to inform the world about the terror and the injustice to humans so the people will not forget and have more caution about their decisions so it does not happen again! The “first concentration camp
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How can two best friends simultaneously be enemies? John Boyne answers this question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. He writes a tale about a Nazi commandant’s son who befriends another boy. They soon become best friends. Everyday Bruno the commandant’s son‚ visits Shmuel‚ a concentration camp inmate. Since Bruno’s father works for Hitler and Shmuel and his family are trapped by Hitler‚ this makes things difficult on the boys. Instead of being able to play with each other‚ like Bruno wants‚ they
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most inhumane genocides in history. Millions were killed in concentration camps by gas chambers and crematoria; others died in combat trying to fight the Nazi regime. But there were some who died more horrid deaths at the hands of Nazi doctors in the camps. These doctors would perform experiments meant to mutilate and cause intense pain for the victims. Many of the Nazi physicians were captured‚ while others fled before the liberation of camps began. One of the more well-known doctors of the Holocaust
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