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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Night Study Guide Answers 1. Who was Moshe the Beadle? Moshe was the caretaker at the Hasidic synagogue. 2. What does Wiesel tell the reader of Moshe? He was poor and lived humbly. He was physically awkward and a dreamer who could appear to be so insignificant as to almost disappear. 3. How does Wiesel describe himself as a boy of 12? He was a serious student of religion who studied the Talmud during the day and prayed at night. 4. How does Wiesel describe his father? He was a
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Vogelmann‚ an Italian Jew who lost family members at Auschwitz‚ rejected the idea of presenting the evil of Holocaust in a manner that might mislead new generations into regarding the film as factual. In the United States‚ critic David Denby led the protest against the film by panning the film as "unconvincing" and "self-congratulatory" and accusing Benigni of perpetrating a Holocaust denial (Denby 96). A cartoon of a despairing concentration camp prisoner holding an Oscar statuette accompanied Denby
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Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camps during World War II. During this time‚ Wiesel witnessed many horrific acts. Two of these were executions. Though the process of the executions were similar‚ the condemned and the Jews’ reactions to the executions were different. The first execution was of a youth from Warsaw‚ a strong‚ well-built boy with three years of concentration camp life. He was condemned for stealing during a bomb alert. The execution
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The Holocaust was a catastrophic event that altered history. Approximately 6 million people were persecuted for being Jews‚ gypsies‚ or having disabilities. They became prisoners to the concentration camps where many were gassed‚ shot‚ burned‚ or starved to death. Maximilian Kolbe‚ a Franciscan friar‚ was one of the millions of victims. On January 8 of 1894‚ Maximilian was born in Zdunska Wola‚ the Kingdom of Poland‚ but later moved to Pabianice with his family. Raymund Kolbe was his original
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to endure the grueling shifts of work in the myriad amount of concentration camps that Adolf Hitler erected during his rule over Germany. However‚ there were those who were able to survive through these hellish conditions and live to tell their tales. One such individual is Elie Wiesel who‚ along with his father Shlomo‚ worked in one of the most famous concentration camps; Auschwitz. Elie and his father were able to survive in the camps for so long because of the father-son bond that they were able
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community and God. Yet his family‚ community and his innocent faith were destroyed upon the deportation of his village to the concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1944."Never shall I forget that night‚ the first night in camp‚ which has turned my life into one long night‚ seven times cursed and seven times sealed." (Elie Wiesel‚ Night‚ Ch. 3). Ellie Wiesel survived Auschwitz‚ Buna‚ Buchenwald and Gleiwitz. He was let free in 1945 and made his way to Paris and started wrighting his first novel Night
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Presented by: GAURAV ANAND 26th Oct‚ 2011 GAURAV ANAND 26th Oct‚ 2011 PRESENTED BY: SUDHANSHU SHEKHAR 17th Oct‚ 2011 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- INDEX: 1. SETTING/ PLOT 2. CHARACTERS 3. MAIN EVENTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 4. BACKGROUND (HISTORICAL ASPECTS) 5. AUTHOR/ TITLE/ YEAR OF PUBLISHING 6. THESIS / VIEWPOINT 7. LANGUAGE/ STYLE 8. CONCLUSION & ANALYSIS 9. TITLE (JUSTIFICATION/
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lose faith no matter how hard the challenges are. As times became harder‚ their relationship became stronger. Although their relationship transformed‚ Elie had to face burden and guilt towards the end of their journey. Before the deportation to Auschwitz‚ Elie recalls his relationship with his father to be extremely distant. Elie and his father did not have a close‚ intimate relationship. The distance between the two is so vast that Elie recalls his father as the one who “…was more concerned with
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deteriorated. “For God’s sake‚ where is God?”(65) “Why‚ but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He kept six crematoria working day and night‚ including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might‚ He had created Auschwitz‚ Birkenau‚ Buna‚ and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou‚ Almighty‚ Master of the Universe ‚ who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night‚ to watch as our fathers‚ our mothers‚ our brothers end
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