Towards the end of the novel, Death comments on the scene of Liesel kneeling by her papa’s dead body,” And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later- a vision in the book thief herself- that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion.” (Zusak 538) Even in the moment of his death, Liesel relates Hans to the accordion because that’s when he looks and feels best to her. Although she cannot play it, she appreciates what the accordion does for Hans, and what Hans does with the accordion to soothe her. As a child, Liesel shows a great
tThe Relationship between Eliezer and his Father Throughout the book Night, you can see the interactions taking place between Elie and his father, and how the dynamics between father and son change as the story goes along. The story takes place during the 1940s, during the World War 2 time period, and at various concentration camps. Elie and his father are devoted Jews and his father is a respected religious figure in the community. Like any normal father and son relationship, Elie is dependent on his father and seeks his approval. Elie mentions asking his father to find him a master to teach him Kabbalah, to which he replied, “you’re too young for that.
The next day, the nurse who had summoned Wiesenthal the day before told him Karl had died. In 1946, having survived the war, Wiesenthal decides to find Karl’s mother in Stuttgart. Widowed, grieving and alone, she tells Wiesenthal her son was a “good boy.” Wiesenthal says nothing of the murderer her son became, knowing she would not have believed him. Then Wiesenthal, at the conclusion of his story, asks the reader to imagine themselves in his place and ask, “What would I have done?” Fifty-three well-known men and women, from all walks of life, respond. To Wiesenthal’s question, the writer, Yossi Klein Halevi, believes Wiesenthal did the right thing by not telling Karl’s mother the truth about her son.
Maus II Chapter 1 Art gets a phone call from his father saying that his wife Mala, has stolen money from him and left him. He promptly goes with his wife to his father’s cabin to stay with him for a few days. On the drive there, Art explains to his wife how growing up with his parents idolizing his dead brother Richeu was hard for him. I can relate because I have always felt a sort of sibling rivalry with my older sister, though she is alive and well. The next day they go for a walk and he tells him about how he was lucky at Auschwitz, a polish guard kept him well fed and clothed so that he may learn English from him.
After all of the decrees, both a big and a small ghetto were set up in Sighet. 3. Elie Wiesel, when instructed to take the left path in Aushwitz towards the furnace, was convinced he was dreaming when he saw a German truck unload infants and throw them into the engulfing flames of the horrific fire, and knowing that the word of the Aushwitz camp was kept secret around Sighet. He knew, that taking this path would be the last time he would ever see his dear mother and sister Tzipora ever again. 4.
No one believes him, including Elie; they think he has gone crazy in his absence. Soon the persecution of the Jews becomes widespread. Elie and his family are forced to move from their home into the ghetto. They are not allowed to go out after dark or interact with non-Jewish people. Soon large numbers of Jews in Sighet are arrested and deported to concentration camps.
Michael teaches the rabbi English, and in exchange, the rabbi teaches Michael to speak Yiddish and shares enthralling stories about his native country, Prague. As the two friends face everyday life in Brooklyn, New York, they also discover a mutual love for baseball, music, and stories. This enlightening story of friendship helped me to really relate to what life was really like back in the 1940’s. Since I just recently learned about the Holocaust, I can now connect with how Jewish people were discriminated against and how terrible life was for them. Pete Hamill, the author, had a great use of adjectives and description so that I could really begin to feel like I was part of the story.
Casablanca, set in French Morocco in December 1941, is a story about trying to escape your past, the power of luck and the difficulties of neutrality during a time of war. The story centers around Rick Blaine and his cafe, Rick's Cafe American, where refugees come looking for transit papers out of Casablanca to Portugal to escape the Nazis. It also centers around a set of transit papers that Rick has and everyone wants. When a Czech nationalist and his wife show up looking for the papers, it sends Rick into a bender as he was once lovers with the wife back in Paris and seeing her again does not help. The biggest foreshadowing moment is when the transit papers come into Ricks possession.
Once again, Eichmann demonstrated his organisational skills. At the start of the war in 1939, Eichmann worked in the Office for Jewish Emigration. By late 1939, Eichmann's work covered the whole of Nazi-occupied Europe and in 1940, he was transferred to the Gestapo. It was at the Wannsee meeting that the Final Solution was decided on and Eichmann was appointed Transportation Administrator. In 1944, Eichmann was sent to Hungary after the Nazis had occupied the country.
The Holocaust The Holocaust (1) all started with one crazy German Nazi named Adolf Hitler. Hitler started the holocaust to start a scapegoat due to the repercussions due to World War 1. After World War 1 Germany was forced to pay for all the damages in all the places that they had invaded which had put them in an economic crisis. Hitler decided to pin the Jews at the root of all of Germany’s problems. He aimed his violence towards Jews, but not just Jews it was also towards outsiders like communists, gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, and homosexuals.