08 Fall 08 Fall A Day At A Concentration Camp Anthony Vaccariello Devry A Day At A Concentration Camp Anthony Vaccariello Devry A Day at a Concentration Camp The prisoners have managed to live through the night. Is it a curse or a blessing that they have manage to survive another day in a concentration camp. (Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority., The Holocaust 2011) Prisoners are awoken in a constant hurry, the first thing they need to do is look for their shoes hoping that they were not stolen during the night, because you will be severely beaten or even killed if you cannot work. Their day starts off with constant fear of their own or others lives. Breakfast mostly consists of a barren piece of bread and watered down tasteless coffee that comes with an opportunity for the Kapo to harass you, beat you or even kill you if you drop food or try to take extra.
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.
This is another example of dehumanization. They were stripped of more rights when they were trafficked. If unhealthy, they were executed through gas chambers, crematoriums or personal execution. Not even given a second thought before death, as if it were the execution of an animal. Wiesel uses a lot of different similes and metaphors to portray how he is feeling and the dehumanization of the inmates at the camp.
They could've even met before! Some of the places that they had been were the concentration camp in Auschwitz. They both describe the talk of being killed and burned, the thought of rebellion, and the shut down by elderly Jews. They also talk about the infamous Dr. Mengele, and his Selection methods. They had also both been in the hospital for injuries and talking about how surprised they were with the three meals a day and how they had to leave for fear of being shot when camp was evacuated.
Similarly in the book Night, Eliezer's father is selected to be killed because of his emaciated and malnourished body in the Buna labour camp. Luckily there was a second selection among the condemned which allowed him to go back to the barracks. Both of these examples portray a positive outcome of chance that lead to their success in the camps. When The Germans received new’s of the Russians advancing into the Buna camp they started killing everyone . At this point in the book Eliezer is in the infirmary due to a foot injury.
Everyone had seemed worried and scared. After days of exhaustion and starvation they had arrived at Auschwitz, where the men and women had been separated. The next camp that they arrived at was Buna where they were forced to work. The only thing that the prisoners had to eat was soup and bread, therefore many died. Prisoners were also forced to watch others get hanged.
Elie, his father, his sister and his mother were innocently arrested. Elie and his family to the concentration camp they arrive to a scene of depression it turned out to a crematorium or dead room for the prisoners and inmates. All they smell is the stench of burning bodies and flesh. Elie is unwontedly forced and separated way from his mother and sister, it is hard to witness but at least he still has his dad. In the all men’s camp Elie is repetitively tortured for sticking up and or fending for his father.
We put mattresses, clothing, food, dishes, pictures, books, valuables---whatever we thought was most important---on the wagon...My father did not even lock the door behind us. He knew that our non-Jewish neighbors would loot everything” (Singer, 17). Rather than “relocating” the Jewish families, the Nazis had a different plan that they were unaware of. After four days of traveling in an overcrowded train, the SS transported the Jews to Auschwitz; they were forced to leave their luggage aside of the train. They immediately were separated into two groups: boys on one side, girls on the other.
Soon after that the Nazis tell everybody they have to leave. The Nazis put everybody on a train, the train was packed. There was no bathroom, nothing to eat or drink and there was nowhere to sit. After a few days on the train they arrive at the concentration camps. As soon as they arrive at the concentration camps they are stripped and put into old dusty rags and their heads are shaven and then the get tattooed numbers and a letter on their forearm.
22 Apr 2011. Because you look at the gate and you see (arbeit macht frei) this means, "work will seat you free." That means the only way out is through the crematorium smoke stack. When you first get off the trains that run right through the middle of the camp, you get off and there was a doctor named Josef Mangle. Josef Mangle was the Nazi doctor that inspired terror in the Jews, when you walked up to him at first he sent you to the left or the right.