Despite the Jews' belief that Nazis wouldn't be able to come near the capital city, Budapest, the Germans soon move into Sighet. Jews are forced to turn in all valuables, and everything they owned. Eventually, the Jews are confined to small ghettos, crowded together into narrow streets behind barbed-wire fences. Jews remaining in Sighet were thrown into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz. On the third night in the cattle cars, Madame Schächter, a middle-aged woman who is on the train with her ten-year-old son begins to scream that she sees fire outside the window.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a story based on his personal experiences during the holocaust controlled by the Nazi army in the concentration camps. Towards the end of 1941 all the Jewish people were taken away from their homes by the Nazi army. When they arrived in Auschwitz they Nazi army separated families by their strength, weakness, and gender. All the men and the women were separated. Then the weak and old ones were separated from the young and strong.
In 1944, the Germans ordered Rumkowski to announce that Germany was in need of workers to repair damage. These ‘workers’ were not sent to work; they were sent to be exterminated at a nearby concentration camp called Chelmo. After many transports, it was then decided that the remaining survivors would be sent to Auschwitz. A combined number of 145,000 Jews were killed at the concentration camps. Rumkoswki believed that he was safe from death after all of his collaboration and hard work with the Nazis, so he voluntarily boarded a train headed for Auschwitz with his family.
When the Russians were getting closer, the Nazi’s were ordered to kill all of the prisoners that were left, but luckily for Levi, they were terrified and fled instead. (“Primo Levi, Chemist and Writer,” 1) At that time, Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army eleven months after Levi entered the camp. Levi survived the concentration camp as one of twenty to leave the camp alive that started out with six hundred and fifty Italian Jews. (“Primo Levi.” http://en.wilipedia.org, 1) After getting out of Auschwitz, Levi spent eight months in Russia as a refuge before heading home. (“Primo Levi, Chemist and Writer,”
Danyelle Seneca Prof. Lawler English 81 October 10, 2011 Seneca 1 Personal Sacrifices of World War I In March to Freedom: A Memoir of the Holocaust by Edith Singer, readers learn a variety of valuable lessons, such as personal sacrifice. Jews soon feared for their lives when World War I broke out in 1933, and Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor. The Jewish community had to make countless of personal scarifies including: unwillingly pack their homes and belongings to relocate, they no longer acquired human identity, and were content with losing their lives to spare extra food. Hitler assigned Adolf Eichmann in charge of the Hungarian Jews; Eichmann was aware that the war would not last forever; knowing that, he wanted to discharge the Jews immediately. “After only one month of the German occupation, they told us to take whatever we could fit on a horse-drawn wagon and go to
Part I Introduction: The book Night by Ellie Wiesel is about the Holocaust during World War II. Wiesel was only 15 when the Nazis, and the Hungarian police invaded his neighborhood, and expelled the Jews. After being moved from town to town, Wiesel and his family are taken to Auschwitz. His mother, and two sisters are immediately taken away to the crematorium, while he and his father are taken to work. They survive on soup, and bread.
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.
The Holocaust in Europe all began in 1940. Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews for every problem Germany was experiencing at the time. Death camps were set up to exterminate them all and leave behind the perfect Ayrian race. Despite all the hatred toward the Jews there were still many people who did not believe in this sort of treatment. Raoul Wallenberg and Hans and Sophie Scholl were three of these good, moral souls who tried to help the Jewish people.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the horrifying story of the Holocaust through Wiesels eyes. In 1944 Elie and his family were taken from their home Auschwitz. Night is the terrifying story of his memories of the death his family, the loss of his innocence and faith in God. Based on what I read in Night, things of value will always change. The valuable things that Elie cherished in the life before the Holocaust were very different, than those after and during his time in the camps.
God? Night is a dramatic book that tells horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. In book Night the author, Eliezer Wiesel, is only fifteen years old when his faith is tested by the horrors of the Holocaust. His identity and possessions are taken from him in the darkest hours in his life. Ten years after he is liberated from the concentration camp, Eliezer writes the novel Night about his endeavors throughout the Holocaust and the effects on his faith.