When reading Farewell to Manzanar and the two sources you can tell that there are many characteristics. But two that really stuck out to me are hope and perseverance. Without hope the characters in the book and the people in the sources that we read about would just give up and not persuit in their life. Also perseverance is important because in the camps they pushed through the rough times even though they were difficult. THESIS!!!…
Loung Ung-the author- is an average middle-class five year old. She has three older brothers, two older sisters and a younger sister. Her parents “ma” and “pa” have been married since they were teenagers. On April 17, 1975 the Ung’s life style would be changed for the rest of their lives, when the Khmer Rouge soldiers arrive in the family’s village. The soldiers quickly move all the families out of the village telling them to pack very little. Loung soon finds herself on an overcrowded truck with many families learning she will never be returning home.…
camps due to the then ongoing World War II, with them fighting Germany, Italy, and Japan,…
They were told they were relocating to a new and better place, but this was not the case. Concentration camps were like prison camps. People were forced to do hard labor. The weak were quickly killed or died of starvation. Some camps even had gas chambers.…
As the Soviet forces approach the main Gross Rosen camp the subcamps when on death marches. Men and women had to walk on foot under brutal conditions for hours or even days until they became weak to continue. If they became weak SS guards killed them and left them. All of these people many whom were Jews were not given food or water so many starved to death. About an estimated of 40,000 people did not survive the death marches.…
Beating something can require perseverance in many different ways. In The Call of the Wild, Buck is taken from his cozy home and put on a sled dog team. He fights with the lead dog, Spitz, often, until one time Buck finally beat him in a fight. On the other hand, my Gram went to college and took a speech class. She was afraid of speaking in front of a large group of people, so she used perseverance to help her control her decisions. While Buck and Gram are different, they were both afraid at one point and both beat a fear they had. Both Gram and Buck had to experience something new, whether it was fighting with another dog or going to college and talking in front of people.…
As early as 1933, the Nazis had been sending people to concentration camps. Initially, these camps were located in Germany (like Dachau and Bergen-Belsen) and were used for "undesirable" people. To the Nazis, these undesirable people included Communists, Democrats, Socialists, political prisoners, homosexuals, and Jews.…
When they reached the Austrian border they were turned over to German soldiers, who then sent them to concentration camps. The Germans began to think they had lost the war and began evacuate the camps and make the prisoners march from Poland to Germany (Death Marches.…
Growing up as a second generation Asian American, courage was a word that I was well versed with. My parents fled Cambodia after spending years in rice fields, fearfully working for the communist party that tore their lives away from them. When the moon rose each night the blood and tears of the broken country were shadowed by the somber preparations for the next day. For my father, the day just begun; no one ever dared to escape before dark. His arrival in a Thailand refugee camp was crucial. As a teacher, he was targeted. The goal was to demolish all evidence of the “old society.” But he was caught. The soldiers tied him to a tree and beat him. Although no matter how many times he was hit, he continued to say his prayers. His continuous…
These people were mistreated and taken from their homes and were then taken to the ghettos. The Jews were transported to concentration camps, then taken to gas chambers, they were also transferred to concentration camps. Railroad freight cars and passenger trains brought them. Men and women were separated immediately, also they were stripped of their clothing and valuables. They were either killed if the Germans believed they were too weak to work and the healthier looking ones were put to work.…
Death marches were also a way of execution because most died of lack of food or because it was too cold, and because they were too weak and were shot ("Death" USHMM par. 4). About one in four prisoners died on death marches ("Death" USHMM par.5). The Nazis tried to destroy all proof of the camps by having the prisoners burn them after they left on death marches (Byers 101). When Hitler committed suicide he wanted the Holocaust to keep going on and all the Jews to be executed, but the Soviet Union was too fast and the Germans were forced to surrender (Byers 102). The prisoners that survived packed up and head-ed to a promise land in Israel (Rice 89).…
They were forced to line up, stand completely still, often for hours at a time, exposed to the elements of cold, rain, and/or snow, and living with the terror of sudden violence by the Nazi guards at any time. They would then retire to the barracks for bed. Ultimately the daily routine was one of fear, malnourishment, fatigue from hard labor and terror that they may not see another day. Daily life in a concentration camp provided very little peace but, those contained in the camps retained hope that the next day would be the day that they regained their freedom and that the next day would maybe, just maybe be the day that they were reunited with their…
They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs; in some cases family members were separated and put into different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps."…
They also had worn The Star of David and in the camps they worn striped uniforms to be identified. When some did try to leave they were shot. The Jews were tortured and was put to work and was put in gas chambers. This all happened during World War ll.…
Many people died in the concentration camps due to the cruel and unusual punishment. Some of the death penalties given to these people were the following: Shoved into buildings where they would drop beads that would burst into poisonous gas, put into a something like a giant oven and burned to death, others died by pure starvation. These inhumane and crucial punishments were used to strike fear into the Jews, they were used to mass kill and prove no point into why this was being done.…