Jammed into the cattle car with Eliezer and his father was a woman named Mrs. Schächter. She and her son were also being sent to a concentration camp. All of a sudden, she started screaming to the others that she saw a fire after they arrived at Auschwitz. After the first couple times she did this, two of the strongest men in the car hit her until she become silent. This was an extreme form of dehumanization.
Some were forced labor, medical experiments, then later death/extermination camps. Transition camps were set up as holding places for death camps. When the camps were finally opened , families who stayed together , got separated. The train ride there was horrible. Jews were starved of food & water for days.
Night The novel Night gives us first-hand information on what happened during the Holocaust of the Second World War. It is being told Elie Wiesel or Eliezer in the book on his experiences, and horrible atrocities that he witnessed while in the different concentration camps that they sent him too. The central theme of Night is Elie Wiesel expressing that during his time in the Auschwitz camp it was like an endless darkness. The novel starts out when Eliezer then a twelve-year old boy living in a Transylvanian town named Sighet recently annexed to Hungary. He lives in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law, his family consists of his mother, father, two older sisters and his younger sister.
Once at Auschwitz-Birkenau, after being forced to get a haircut and redressing in prison garb, Wiesel states, “In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (37). Wiesel goes into explicit detail regarding the beatings he and his father received, and that eventually he became desensitized to the pain; thus, the SS dehumanized them by taking away their physical strength and ability to feel. Throughout his book, Wiesel states that they sometimes Breeden 2 received little to no food and he goes onto to describe how the starvation led men to kill each other over scraps of food, and to get themselves killed all for trying to get a bowl of soup. One of the most important ways Wiesel describes that the SS dehumanized them was forcing them to have tattoos, a number. Wiesel
Night a modern day Book of Job In Night, the author Eli Wiesel shares his most personal memories of the Holocaust. Where he experienced directly and during which he lost all of his family and many friends. The occurrence of incomparable evil perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews ruined Eli’s hopefulness and his belief in the natural goodness of human beings. Although he could have held on to that view throughout the remainder of his life, Night ultimately shows how Wiesel was eventually able to restore hope and optimism and belief in others and to live with the enormous burden of pain that he carries. Many of the memoirs of the Holocaust such as have this same tone throughout them.
Holocaust Testimonies By: Carlos Chavez October 18th, 2008 In this powerful book there were many testimonies by numerous people and of course they were all different. Joseph Preil really found the core of the Jewish community and their feelings towards the happenings of the Holocaust. In the book survivors share some of the most horrific stories that not even the worst of horror movies can compare to. The way some of these people were treated and what they had to go through is just unbearable. I think it takes a lot of courage for the survivors to tell some of their stories because there is not doubt that it was a painful memory for them.
Against his father’s will, Eliezer is into learning religious mysticism such as the Kabbalah. Despite this, Eliezer finds a sensitive and challenging teacher in Moishe the Beadle, a local pauper. Their relationship was like every normal teacher and student. Soon the Hungarians banish all foreign Jews, including Moishe. After several months, Moishe escapes the German captors, and goes back to Sighet to warn his people about how the deportation trains were handed over to the Gestapo but no one believes him.
Survival: Luck or Wisdom? Art Spiegleman’s books, Maus I and Maus II, are graphic novels describing Art’s father, Vladek, and his plight through the Holocaust. During that time, the Jews were performing acts so unthinkable that if performed today, would be seen as crude and obscene. These acts, though looked down upon, were done with only one thing in mind: survival. Surviving the strict Nazis and traumatizing death camps depended purely on one’s good luck or one’s strategic knowledge.
Many Navajos died from other diseases caused by poor sanitation. Pneumonia, influenza, measles, small pox also took a serious toll. In the book of Maus, Vladek mentions when they slept at night in the barracks, sitting on straw, waiting to die. In the straw, it was Lice from the lice was Typhus (Vol II 91). I wouldn’t have lasted that long being treated like that after a long day works.
It wiped out entire families while others were forced to dig the graves of their own family members. Morgues were so overwhelmed by the morality rates that bodies began to pile. Business in the U.S. came to a halt because of the amount workers stricken with the flu. Mail was not delivered and trash piled up due to sick workers. Crops could not be harvested because there were not enough workers and even state and local health departments shut down as a result.