during WWII. In camps such as Birkenau‚ Buna and Auschwitz people change. They lose faith‚ hope‚ families and their physicality. Every day‚ we go through situations that affect us in some way. The more difficult situation is‚ the more of an effect it has on us. A few days it`s enough to change the personality of a Human and to start acting like hungry animals. Elie`s experiences during WWII change him change him a lot physically‚ mentally and emotionally. In Hitler`s concentration camps the Jews were
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settled one day. The next day they were being deported to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In 1944‚ this is precisely what occurred to the community of Jews in Sighet‚ Transylvania‚ including a boy named Elie Wiesel. Wiesel depicts the story of his time during the Holocaust in his novel‚ Night. In Night‚ Elie was taken from everything he knew‚ his home‚ his family‚ his friends‚ and his spiritual mentor. The time spent at the camps transformed him into someone he could not recognize
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me most‚ and most likely everyone else is the concentration camps. The cause of the main event‚ which is the concentration camps is the Germans blaming the Jewish race for their loss in the war. The Germans then put most of the Jewish race in concentration camps to beat‚ starve‚ and torture them. One of the three effects of the cause and main event are Ellie got separated from his mother and his younger sister‚ Tzipara. They got separated when the camps were beginning to take place. An SS Officer said
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After being found by the Green Police‚ Hermann van Pels‚ also known as Mr. Van Daan‚ was taken to camp Westerbork by a passenger train. Since he had not reported voluntarily‚ he was taken to the barracks in the punishment block. There‚ Hermann worked and cut open batteries daily. Eventually‚ on September 2‚ 1944‚ Hermann was put on a long train going to Auschwitz concentration camp. Upon arrival at the camp‚ Hermann split up from the women and then had to undergo a selection process done by the Nazi
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unchangeable up until the moment he left his train car and arrived at the death camp. It was at that point in his life when he would never regard his faith with the same view again. He did not understand why the God he had spent so much time on throughout his life would just suddenly desert him and the whole Jewish race. He felt deeply betrayed because God has let Jews be taken from their homes‚ brought to concentration camps‚ and be left to be tortured and even cruelly killed. These events are permanently
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Wiesel’s memoir Night is based on his experiences in the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. Having grown up an Orthodox Jew in the Hungarian village of Sighet‚ Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and youngest sister were immediately sent to the gas chambers. While both his older sisters survived‚ his father‚ with whom Wiesel had fought to survive the labor camps‚ died shortly before the war ended. Night tells the horror
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Nazis wanted to wipe out‚ or they spoke out against Hitler. The Nazis killed their victims in concentration camps‚ gas chambers‚ death marches‚ and trains. Many also died due to disease‚ suicide‚ and starvation. Overall‚ the Holocaust was the mass murder of about six million Jews plus millions of others‚ during World War II. An example of one of the many concentration camps is the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Oświęcim‚ Poland. It was established in 1940 by Germans and is made of three parts. Auschwitz
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were lost‚ but how many souls were lost. Those lucky enough to survive Auschwitz‚ Buchenwald‚ and the like came out changed men and women‚ and not for the better. While some‚ such as Elie Wiesel‚ were able to contribute to the world and keep alive the memory of the victims of the Holocaust‚ many left the experience shells; shadows of their former selves. So much had changed during their time in the concentration camps and they had lost so much of their dignity and identity. This issue is a major aspect
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Holocaust‚ there were many concentration camps spread throughout Europe. Fort de Romainville was built in the 1830’s. The Nazis used it as a concentration camp during World War II (Fold3 .com). Fort de Romainville is located in France approximately on the outskirts of Paris. When translated to English‚ Fort de Romainville changes to Fort Romainville (Wikipedia). Fort de Romainville was a Nazi prison and concentration camp. Sometimes the Fort was also used as an extermination camp. Inside the Fort‚ people
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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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