of horrendous experiments. The Germans killed almost 1.5 million children in total‚ including a million Jews‚ thousands of Romani kids‚ and mentally and physically disabled children. Children were killed when arriving in camps‚ killed immediatly after birth‚ were hidden in camps‚ put to work in hard labor‚ used for medical experiments‚ and killed during anti-partisan operations. Many Jewish children were forced to do hard labor as a part of “annihilation through work”. The working was usually pointless
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home and heads towards the camp. There he meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon)‚ a young Jewish boy. While trying to understand what is happening in the world around them‚ the boys become friends. While
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dehumanized‚ and as a result of this dehumanization he became numb. At the beginning of the novel‚ Elie was a naïve young Jewish boy with an incredibly strong faith‚ who wept “over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 14). By the end‚ years of concentration camp life have broken his spirit and Elie is no longer fazed by the death and torture occurring all around him (Wiesel 103). This numbness manifests itself in varying ways throughout Night‚ each more disheartening than the last. First‚ Elie loses
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The setting of Night takes place in 1944‚ in a concentration camp called Buchenwald. It all starts out when the main character‚ Eliezer‚ has his Jewish hometown overrun by the Germans. Eliezer’s hometown gets turned into a ghetto by the Germans‚ and they are forced to stay in the ghetto until the whole neighborhood is sent to the concentration camps. Since the neighborhood is Jewish‚ they are shipped off in cattle carts to the concentration camps‚ where most of the neighbors will spend the rest
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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ there is a motif of survival and a central idea that when one is put in a desperate situation‚ developments that may otherwise seem either mundane or horrifying may instead be seen as remarkable or amazing. When all the guards leave their posts because of an alarm signal‚ two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. All of the prisoners quickly take note of the soup and are in awe‚ “two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast” (Wolff 59). The author’s
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The Devil’s arithmetic is a book and movie about a very tragic time “the Holocaust” and about what the daily life was not just for a jew but anybody who was in the camps. Hannah is a kid our age who must endure through the whole thing only to die saving her cousin and best friend rivka by going into the gas chambers for her. Though the book and the movie are the same they have many similarities and differences except for one thing that stays constant throughout the book and movie. Throughout the
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This was stated by a German officer as Elie and his community were being transported to the concentration camps. To be referred to as a dog is humiliating and mentally restraining. Not only that‚ but the inability to retaliate or express your opinion would degrade the human mind. As Elie reached his first camp‚ he was immediately separated from his family. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel‚ pg 29). Here the Germans view the Jews as if they were a herd of animals
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someone you look up to‚ model after‚ he is someone you want to be like. But‚ entering a concentration camp could have a tragic impact on that relationship between a father and son. In Night‚ Eliezer and his father go through many ups and downs that reflect on how strong their relationship really is. Elie Wiesel uses an effective father and son relationship to illustrate the effects of what concentration camps have on human beings. Eliezer and his father own a quite distant relationship‚ a strong
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a story how twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel himself spends much time in trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In a train car eighty villagers have to survive on slightest food and water. When Elie Wiesel is 16 the United States Army in April 1945 saved him‚ but it was too late for his father‚ who died after a beating. “I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.”-George Takei
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of Jews ever existing‚ but through all of the horror and dead bodies someone survived. His name is Elie Wiesel‚ many years after his experience with the Germans; he wrote a book called Night. His book consists of the childhood he experienced at Auschwitz and the dehumanizing experiences that he faced. His book won many metals‚ like the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal‚ the French Legion of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize. His story‚ and many others from other people who lived‚ have
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