Fight Or Flight Decisions

In the non-perfect world we live in, we are asked to make hard decisions every day. If a man came across a disaster such as a car crash, what would he do? Would he stay and help, or would he just shield himself from any dangers and drive by? In a perfect world, it would be natural to stop and help. But this is not a perfect world, he needs to decide. “Fight Or Flight” he says to himself. And that same fight or flight decision had to be made by the Red and American Armies as well as the resistance fighters within the camps. If they fight the Nazis to free the Jews, they are risking their own lives. But if they stay isolated they do not lose a soul. And they chose to fight, even though they put their own lives in danger. That is the definition
He is hungry and desperate to see the outside of the camp as there is a rumor that had begun that day that “Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve” (Wiesel 80). Another rumor is that the Red Army is on their way to Buna. The SS Guards evacuate all of the Jews from the camp except for the ones in the infirmary. Wiesel and his father had to choose between staying in the infirmary of evacuating with the others. Wiesel says “let's be evacuated with the others, ...” (Wiesel 82). The Red Army arrives at Buna only to find out that anyone not in the infirmary were transferred to a new camp elsewhere. All of the sick Jews in the infirmary were liberated by The Red Army while everyone else was at Gleiwitz. “After the war, I learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary. They were, quite simply, liberated by the russians, two days after the evacuation.” (Wiesel 82). This was heroic because The Red Army did not have to help free the Jews from Buna. They sacrificed some of their own men to free the Jews from the camp even though only the ones in the infirmary were
“At six o’clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald” (Wiesel 115). The Americans liberated all of Buchenwald and the Jews were finally free. What the Americans did was heroic because they helped them escape from the concentration camp and it was not even their responsibility, because it was not on American soil nor were they American citizens. They were just people in need of assistance. Another reason this was heroic is because they did not know what to expect from entering Buchenwald. The Americans were selfless and chose to help people they did not know putting their own lives on the