Lara Olson English 10 Seminar Mrs. Zavacki 20 March 2012 Almost everyone in the world knows about the Holocaust and how it ruined the lives of many. But no one knows the real horror brought upon the survivors until you read their true stories. The rude awakening of the memoir Night and the poem “Aftermath” show that even the kindest people can lose their sense of virtuous direction. Wiesel’s story about his experiences at the concentration camps grew more heartbreaking to read with every word. Wiesel wrote about how horrible it seemed to lose one’s innocence.
Instead people remained in silence, and inhumanity took over. It is important that we shall not forget this tragedy that occurred. It is far more important we should study the holocaust as well, due to the fact that hundreds and hundreds of innocent human beings lost their lives and we can't let this happen again later on in Life.` When the Jews were sent to the concentration camps, all families were separated. The Germans were not considerate at all. Because of cruel people like them
So it wasn’t the easiest thing to do in the middle of December when it’s snowing and below freezing. What went on inside the camp was horrible they stole from the Jews and they ripped out their gold teeth but the thing that was the worst was what they did to the twin children. See they would test the twins by injecting them with drugs and putting them in high-pressure chambers. After they ran out of room, they put the Jews in a crematorium. The Nazis started burning all the Jews on open fire
Night Essay Night by Elie Wiesel tells the terror of what the prisoners had to go threw in the concentration camps during World War II. The book proceeds to show how many prisoners lost their faith in God. There are many examples in this book where people are trying to keep their faith but finding it hard to do so with everything going on. People are rebelling against God and their religion. Night shows how difficult holding onto and using their religion to survive was.
When he returns, he tells the villagers about how he has miraculously escaped from his torturers. He also tells them shocking stories about the atrocities committed against the Jews by Hitler’s regime. When Elie and the other villagers do not believe his stories, thinking he has gone mad, Moshe weeps and tells his story again. As time passes, the Nazis treat the Jews worse and worse. First they shift the Jewish people to live in ghettos; then they arrest them and transport them to Birkenau, the reception center that leads to Auschwitz.
If a jew tried to escape, they would just get shot. The Nazis were instructed by hitler to have no mercy or feelings towards the jews. During the invasion of Poland, they captured half the jews living there and instantly shot the other half of the jews in Poland. Since Poland was close to germany, they invaded them. And also invaded them because of the jewish people .
Hitler deliberately expressed his hate toward Jews and gave ample warnings, as it was all written down in his autobiography “Mein Kampf”. In 1935, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. Jewish rights were steadily restricted, as in many cases Jewish political and intellectual leaders were the first to be sent to concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938 lead to the death of approximately 100 Jews, while other 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. Jewish businesses along with almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or completely destroyed.
In concentration camps, people were dehumanized and made to live in conditions that not even an animal would want to live in. At the entrance of the infamous Auschwitz, prisoners were either sent to the left or the right. To the left, you immediately died but to the right you go through the dehumanizing process of becoming camp prisoners. (www.history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/auschwitz.htm) All their clothes were taken away along with any other personal possessions. Newly arrived prisoners were thrown into the cruel, hard, unfair, horrific world of camp life.
This quote describes when the Germans arrived to the city. The Jewish people thought that things would be horrible, which they became, but the German’s were being deceitfully kind. This reminds me Of Iago from Othello, and how he puts on a fake attitude to get his way. This can be seen as foreshadowing. While Wiesel is in the concentration camps, he is usually forced to wait hours by the Gestapo.
In the book Night, Elie and his father are sent to a concentration camp called Auschwitz, and then Buna. At both of these camps, the Nazis were unfair to all of the Jews and treated them horribly. In other words, the Nazis "dehumanized" the Jews. Dehumanization is to treat people as if they are not human. To dehumanize a person is to be cruel to them until they no longer act human.