On June 12‚ 1929‚ at 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt‚ Germany. No one realized that this infant‚ who was Jewish‚ was destined to become one of the world’s most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank‚ and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto Frank. She had one sister‚ Margot‚ who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and normal childhood‚ and on her 13th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became special to her as years went
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Elie Wiesel Look‚ it’s important to bear witness. Important to tell your story. . . . You cannot imagine what it meant spending a night of death among death. —Elie Wiesel The obligation Elie Wiesel feels to justify his survival of a Nazi concentration camp has shaped his destiny. It has guided his work as a writer‚ teacher‚ and humanitarian activist; influ- enced his interaction with his Jewish faith; and affected his family and personal choices. Since World War II‚ Wiesel has borne witness to
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during the research. During the Holocaust at the concentration camp at Auschwitz different kinds of subjects were used for experimentation. Dr. Josef Mengele‚ the camp doctor‚ focused his work on living humans. The results found during the experimentation by Dr. Mengele helped lead to advancements in the modern medical field despite the numerous lives lost and discomfort inflicted on the test subjects. Before Dr. Mengele was assigned to Auschwitz he led a distinguished career in genetic research
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individuality. “I became A-7713‚ from then on I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). And once again the Germans had taken a bit of Human from the Jews. Many factors contributed to the reason that the Germans tried to dehumanize the Jews in the concentration camps‚ partly so that they would lose the will to live. I feel like the German soldiers‚ ruthless as they were to the Jews‚ needed to dehumanize the Inmates because they didn’t have enough immortality to kill. But since the Jews were viewed‚ treated
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Dehumanization- Night of adversity The process of Dehumanization shows three different stages; Co Dependence‚ Rejection and Survival of the fittest. In the book Night‚ these three stages are shown through Elie Wiesel and other poor souls in a number of Concentration camps. The first stage in which dehumanization is shown in Night is Co dependence. The first example of Co Dependence is when Elie’s father holds his hand‚ which shows his father giving his son protection. The second example is when Elie’s father
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Mengele is an Auschwitz doctor born on March 1911. He grew up studying medicine‚ Biology‚ and Racial Hygiene after being accepted into the Nazi party. His career was interrupted by the war and was placed within the reserve medical corps and a Waffen SS unit. He then was served as a medical officer to do experiments‚ brutal experiments and was nicknamed as the “Angel of Death”. This put him in charge of thousands and
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fit the German Aryan race of having blonde hair and blue eyes. The plan was to send everyone who was strong enough to concentration and death camps. Of those‚ Auschwitz concentration camp was the deadliest and the harshest. The weak would be shot on the spot‚ babies would be killed and anyone over 50 would also be killed in the gas chambers. Not only were the prisoners at Auschwitz murdered and worked to death they were also experimented on. Josef Mengele‚ a Nazi doctor who was most feared‚ during
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angrier. The Jews on the train find out that they have reached Auschwitz station when they stop‚ but they have no idea what that means. The locals tell them it is a labor camp where they will be treated well and get to stay together as a family. As they arrive by train into the camp they see burning furnaces and smell horrible odors‚ to only find out that smell is burning human flesh. They have arrived at Birkenau a concentration camp that is the process center for arrivals at
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the Germans came and took him and his family away. When they were taken to a concentration camp‚ Elie had to give up his childish beliefs in order to ensure that himself and his father both survive. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses the idea of how he was forced to mature in order to show how he as a result has lost his humanity. When the Germans
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Written to reflect on the horrors faced during the Holocaust‚ Viktor E. Frankl analyzes the different mental states experienced by a concentration camp prisoner in his book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl includes many of his own personal examples to support his theory of logotherapy which focuses on finding the meaning of man’s life. He demonstrates throughout his book that if a man has a reason to live and the right state of mind‚ he can endure any condition. In one section of his book‚ Frankl
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