Night by Elie Wiesel Night is a story about a boy named Elie Wiesel and his family being sent to a concentration camp because they are Jewish. The family was warned many times from people who had seen the pain and suffering at the concentration camps with their own eyes but didn't believe it. One day they learned that the Gestapo were coming to the Jewish neighborhood. When they came the people were split into two ghettos, a small and large one. The Wiesel family was put into the larger ghetto.
This was still not satisfactory for Reinhardt Heydrich and although 200 people were being executed a day he thought that they must be shot and hanged without trial. The Einsatzgruppen received their orders from Heydrich or Bruno Streckenbach and evidence proved that the orders included the killing of Soviet Jews. On June 22 1941 German soldiers invaded the Soviet Union and the Einsatzgruppen followed, now their orders were written, not given orally and the written orders demanded them to execute all people of many different parties and groups, including Jews. The Einsatzgruppen went to the streets and killed all Jews. Feliz Landau, a member of the Einsatzkommando wrote: “There were hundreds of Jews walking along the street with blood pouring downt heir faces, holes in their heads, their hands broken and their eyes hanging out of their sockets.” By late July 1941 all Jewish men, women and
250 000 children around the world are working as soldiers forced to commit violent crimes. At least 40% of the children are used as sex slaves. The children are given a false promise and forced by the government or armed rebel groups to live a life as a soldier to receive a regular meal. They are stripped away from families to become brainwashed killing machines. This happens because the leaders of the army want power over the community.
Which mentally destroyed there mind and soul by how poorly perceived they are as a human. As Elies remains longer in the concentration camps the germans do not stop the torturing events. Once Elie and His father have cut their hair they try to find people who they know. They get assigned a labor unit after which means they will not immediately get sent to the crematorium to death. A long night passes, Elie gets beaten again than sent in line while, the SS officers bring in three veteran prisoners to tattoo numbers on each individual "in the afternoon, they made us line up.
The Jewish people were required to wear the Jewish star or Star of David on them at all times. When they would finally come get them off the train the higher ranking officers decided if you were going to be used for experiments or slave camps. He said the worst camp he ever went was ran by a man that would kill `15 to 20 people a day inhuman ways because the officer said that hanging was too easy for Jews. At this camp he was tattooed with KL which stands for concentration camp in Germany. Max also said his father was killed at this camp.
Many died during these walks, so this journey became known as the “Death March” (“Timeline”).Death Marched took place because Germans wanted to use these prisoners as forced laborers in Germany. These prisoners had to march long distances. These marches took place in bitter cold. Prisoners were given little or no food, water, or rest. Prisoners who could not keep up were shot (“Death
This was never a name that he used himself, but one that he earned by his brutal killing tactics. He was seeking revenge against the boyars that tortured and killed his brother. To do this he invited the families of everyone who was involved to and Easter Feast, once they are all inside he had his troops surround them all and had them march. He then made them march fifty miles to the future site of his new fortress, the survivors of this march were then forced to build his castle in Poenari, and survivors of this were then impaled by Vlad. Although his measures were very harsh he was seeing results, he had impaled between 30,000 and 100,000 people.
At first they were just gathered up, shot and thrown into mass open graves. It is estimated that over 1 million people died in this manner. But it wasn't efficient enough so more and more death camps sprang up. From this point, the Germans worked on more and more efficient ways to liquidate the undesirables by bringing them to death camps to systematically kill them and recycle any valuables for the war effort. And in this instance, a valuable was a healthy person - so the Germans would work the prisoners until they had no more energy to produce and then kill them.
H O L O C A U S T B Y M A Y C E H U S S E I N 1. T E L L T H E S T O R Y : Script of the interview with Isaac McMillan (Polish Jew that survived the Holocaust) This interview took place on the 8th of May 1960 in Warsaw, Poland. Exactly fifteen years after the end of World War II. What was it like growing up as a Jewish? I was only seven years old when I came home from school crying one day and my grandpa picked me up and sat me on his knee.
The Germans had no tolerance for any of them and stripped them of their belongings and put them to work immediately. There were many camps at this time, but one of the largest and most famous camps was Auschwitz. (Wood) The camps had one main focus, to kill the Jews. The Nazis chose genocide as the answer to the “Jewish question.” The largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, was a labor camp where the Nazis put the prisoners to work until their death. The Nazis used Auschwitz as a killing center