Anne Frank and her family were one of many to go into hiding during the holocaust. One of the people who helped them was Victor Kugler. However he was called Mr. Kraler in the book. Victor Kugler was born in the Czech Republic on June 5‚ 1900. In the book he had an ulcer and was in the hospital‚ but he lived to be 81 years old. After the war he went to Canada to start a new life and lived there for 26 years‚ but died on December 16‚ 1981. Another person who helped the Franks was Miep Gies‚ she worked
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In the book‚ “Night”‚ Eliezer Wiesel talked about a boy named Elie from Sighet and he got deported to a concentration camp by the Nazis. They took Elie’s freedom‚ identity‚ family‚ dignity etc. The Nazis treated Jewish people badly and used any kind of way to dehumanize them. Moments of moral ambiguity helped Elie retain his humanity in the face of dehumanizing treatment by staying positive which helped him retain his good qualities as a human. Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how
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Night Humanity Essay Throughout the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie tells us what it is like to be a Jew in the Holocaust. As a 15 year old boy Elie sees more awful things during the course of the different camps in Europe that we will see in our lifetime. Elie’s relationship with humanity changes from frustrated to no longer having any humanity left as he journeys from Sighet to freedom. Elie Wiesel’s relationship with humanity changes from frustrated towards the Jews to awareness
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Night By Elie Wiesel Taylor Brennan October 2014 Period 6 Senior English Ms. Scimone/Hagis Chapter 1 DOK Questions: 1. Identify one character trait of Elie’s father. Elie’s father doesn’t display his feelings‚ and he is rather distant from his family. 2. Organise the events from 1941-1944. 1941: Elie meets Moishe the Beatle when he is 13. 1942: All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet‚ including Elie’s friend‚ Moishe. 1943: Daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad
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The reading of Night by Elie Wiesel raises many Questions in the reader as he/she ponders how to prevent these atrocities in the future. What should the individual in the novel have done and what can we do in the future to prevent atrocities like these in the future. This prevention with individuals. We have a moral responsibility to at the very least use our voice to make the world aware of unjust treatment and severe discrimination based on group affiliation. Even if someone lacks the morality
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someone’s day a little bit brighter. Being generous does not mean that you have to give money‚ sometimes you just have to give time. Every person has a different definition of what it means. Anne Frank states that "No one has ever become poor by giving." Is that because being generous makes your heart feel rich? Frank A. Clark says "Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never notice." If no one ever acknowledges when someone does a considerate deed for them‚ why does generosity
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and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things‚ even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." ( page 34) - Elie Wiesel. The mass killings in Germany activated against the Jews created a new word‚ genocide. The Nazi almost exterminated more than half of Jewish‚ and other. The book ’ Night’ was about Elie‚ and how he was sent to the concentration camp with his father‚ the story tells all of hardship and the endurance that he and his father need to have and
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one at all. A great man such as Elie Wiesel would agree to that statement. He believes standing up for what is right by showing compassion for a fellow human being than for letting good men do nothing while evil triumphs. The message he passes was how indifference is showing the other man he is nothing. He attempts to grasp the audience by personal experiences and historic failures we need to learn from to grow to the compassion human being we all can be. Elie Wiesel show great respect for America
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impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe‚ in spite of everything‚ that people are truly good at heart." from the Diary of Anne Frank (last entry). I’ve been thinking about what it would be like to be that daughter or sister or mother of someone killed in cold blood. And I still can’t say another dead body would soothe my pain. The last time Anne was seen by two of her friends‚ most of her precious family were dead. She was bald‚ emaciated and shivering. In February‚ 1945 she told
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Kapo‚ a prisoner for the police to watch the Jews. Not many of the Jews know that I am a police for the Nazis’ but they will learn if they underestimate.We took in more Jews today. I supplied Elie a job and if he doesn’t do it well or does anything wrong‚ then he or other Jews will regret it. I am mad at Elie now‚ I was in a private room with a girl and he decided to skip his job to spy on me. My punishment for him was to have him get beaten with a whip for what he had seen and told him he needs to
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