Jake Mendala 10/17/2011 Post WW2 History Auschwitz 5 Point Essay The book Auschwitz, written by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, takes place during the Nazi occupation of Hungry. Any “enemy” to the Third Reich was deported to one of their concentration camps. Dr. Nyiszli was one of the unlucky ones to be sent to the biggest concentration camp, or other known as death camps, of Auschwitz. There are five key points that the author makes clear through the first two thirds of the book. Dr. Nyiszli wanted to make it clear that the Nazis were willing to kill men, women, and children not only because there intense hatred for Jews but also for research that was conducted through dissecting the human corpses.
The Holocaust Amanda Marie Flores HIS 104 World Civilizations II Instructor: Jennifer Bridges November 27th 2011 Holocaust is a Greek word coming from the word “holos” meaning (whole), and “kaustos” meaning (burned). The holocaust was a state-sponsored discrimination along with murder of about six million Jews by the collaboration of the Nazi regime. The Nazis who were in power in Germany in January of 1933, believed that the Jews reckoned inferior, and the Germens were racially superior to the fact. Adolf Hitler was one of the men who helped form the Holocaust, among being the main ruler during this time. Hitler like many others of this time blamed the Jews for the country’s defeat back in 1918.
The Wiesel family was put into the larger ghetto. They remained there for some time until one day the Gestapo came and put the people on train carts. They could not bring any belongs with them. But instead they had to leave all of their jewelry and valuables in the Ghettos. The Gestapo put at least 70 people on one cart.
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 man standing beside me who was in charge of the wagon called to the German Officer and asked if the sick women could be moved to the hospital car. That was my mother they were talking about and she was not going anywhere. No where without me. As terrifying as it was mother jumped up again shouting: “Jews look! Look at the fire!
Jews were blind citied and didn’t realize how bad things were going to get that very few went into hiding during the war. The Jews that remained were forced into ghettos which equaled death. They were dying of infectious diseases, exposure to elements and starvation. The few that were strong n survived in the ghetto were forced to go to Central Square and deported to concentration camps. For the first time in many of these children’s lives, they were forced to confront the concept of what being a Jew meant to them and the society of which they lived.
These items (including clothing, eye glasses, medicine, shoes, books, pictures, jewelry, and prayer shawls) would periodically be bundled and shipped back to Germany. Gas Chambers and Crematoria at Auschwitz The people who were sent to the left, which was the majority of those who arrived at Auschwitz, were never told that they had been chosen for death. The entire mass murder system depended on keeping this secret from its victims. If the victims had known they were headed to their death, they would most definitely have fought back. But they didn't know, so the victims latched onto the hope that the Nazis wanted them to believe.
Living through genocide is a horrific tragedy that no one should ever have to endure. While there have been numerous genocides within the last century, the holocaust was a genocide that killed over 12 million innocent people and segregated them by religion, sex and age. Since the end of the holocaust, many survivors wrote their stories accounting the horrific lives they led, while some eliminated parts of their story, others felt that it was necessary to show the entirety of what had occurred. With these first hand accounts, the reader is able to see the differences between how men and women lived their everyday lives as well as how they were treated by Hitler’s regime. In Elie Wiesel’s, Night, and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk’s, True Tales from a
There were over six million Jews that were murdered during the Holocaust. Toward the end of the war prisoners that were in the concentration camps were liberated, this attempt to free the prisoners continued until May 7, 1945 which was the day the Germans surrendered without a fight. The crimes that were committed during the Holocaust had a permanent effect on the Jewish population, even till today. The Holocaust was caused by Hitler Germany needed an enemy that could be blamed for everything bad that had happened to it after WW1 and the Jews were a perfect target.. The Holocaust happened because Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jewish race.
in March 1942, Pope Pius XII was asked to intervene to stop the deportation of the Slovakian Jews to Auschwitz which temporarily delayed the action. Global Response (Cont.) May 1942 and June 26th, the BCC in London sent out information about the slaughter of Polish Jews. This reached the US in December when president Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Churchill gave the Germans a public warning about their actions against the Jews they were murdering in Europe. When the US did receive concrete evidence, government officials suppressed the information.