Holocaust. Eliezer‚ when living in Talmud‚ was the perfect gentle person devoted to God. Suddenly‚ after getting deported to the concentration camp‚ he started to become aware of the horrors that life can reserve and he began to doubt his faith to the point that all values of compassion and charity were vanished. The process of de-humanization which developed in the concentration camps allowed him to see the real nature of selfish human beings‚ and after this experience his beliefs would never go back to
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Night Traumatic. Horrifying. Life changing. In the memoir Night by Elie Weisel he tells about the struggles Elie went through. The torture he suffered in the concentration camps during the holocaust. From losing his family‚ being beaten‚ starved‚ and worked to death at only 15 years old. Although one of Elie’s biggest loss was his faith. In Night Elie’s faith goes from strong‚ to questioning his beliefs‚ to having anger towards God. In the beginning Elie’s faith was strong‚ he would pray everyday
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They had to wear yellow stars to show that they were Jews. “The yellow star? Well what of it? You don’t die of it…” (Wiesel 9) said Elie’s father‚ trying to keep an optimistic perspective. They were also treated like animals‚ being shipped to concentration camps in small cramped cattle trains were they traveled under the hot sun without being able to sit‚ something that never in their lives would they have thought of as a privilege. Adding to making them feel like animals‚ they also called them things
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Contrary to many peoples’ beliefs‚ Dr. Josef Mengele’s cruelty and mutilation to Jews and Romas was necessary. During 1943 and 1945‚ a period already infamous for European mass killing‚ known today as a holocaust‚ and World War II‚ many humans taken prisoner were used as guinea pigs in experiments. One question remains from that time frame: What was Dr. Josef Mengele trying to prove or discover using information from his medical-based experiments? The gruesome knowledge derived from Dr. Josef Mengele’s
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would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? 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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During world war two‚ the holocaust affected millions of lives‚ especially those of the twins and the children at Auschwitz‚ who were brutally experimented on with no pan management while under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Mengele. Many died and the rest lived the rest of their lives with severe medical problems. Dr. Mengele was not a simple creature though. The creation of the Nazi angel of death began as a child in a cold distant family‚ and gradually evolved with his enrolling into college‚ joining
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holocaust and he has so many amazing stories about his family and his time that he had in the concentration camp. I feel like honestly i wouldn’t pick it up before 8th grade but now that this year we were learning about wwii i find it more interesting and i feel like i /would read some of his book. If i could ask this author anything during an interview i would ask him what was i like being put in concentration camps‚ and what was it like after
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experience of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps during the Second World War. Due to Frankl’s profession as a psychiatrist he gained insights on the camp life and human psychology that other people might not have been able to gain. This gives his account of his time in a Nazi concentration camp a specific perspective that is seldomly found in other reports. One of the major things Frankl focuses on in his novel is how the prisoner survived inside the camps. While Frankl’s standpoint was that
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with disabilities. If the children weren’t killed they would most likely be used for forced labor. They would either be worked to death to benefit the camp or do unnecessary jobs like digging ditches. Jewish men‚ women‚ and children were rounded up and
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of the Jews had lost their trust in their lord after seeing the horrors of the Nazis. Elie is one of these prisoners who loses his faith while in the concentration camps with his father. In the book Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses the motif of his and his fellow prisoner’s faith to show the waning of their hope and humanity while in the concentration camps. When Elie’s faith in humanity is diminished‚ so is his belief in God. When fifteen year old Eliezer first sees the horrors of Buna‚ he is still extremely
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