populations during the early time of the holocaust. Dehumanization is when a human feels like their life is not worth anything to even be alive anymore. They feel deprived of all their human qualities. The Germans threw the Jews into harsh concentration camps. They placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a person was not worth anything‚ they would be sent to the gas chamber or an inferno. The Germans were a harsh army that desensitized the life of the Jewish
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Bruno who moved to a residence near Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Berlin after his father is promoted to the Commandant of the camp during World War 2. Sometime after arriving to his new “home” Bruno becomes bored without his friends and disobeys his mother’s rule against leaving the front yard. He explores hoping to find others his age. Awhile later‚ Bruno finds another child named Shmuel on the other side of a fence that surrounds the concentration camp‚ despite the vast sociological pressures that
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to making speeches‚ he has shared his story with people across the world. In his memoir Night‚ He shared his experiences be taken to the concentration camps and his journey through all of it. In his speech‚ “Perils of Indifference” shares about the dangers of being indifferent towards something and the emotion that he felt while being in the concentration camps. Even though “Perils of indifference” shared his message about the dangers of being indifferent‚ Night not only shares that message but other
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Auschwitz was a concentration camp in Poland enforced by the Nazi Germany regime. There were three camps in one: Auschwitz I was built in 1940‚ Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) in October 1941‚ and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz-Monowitz) in October 1942. Auschwitz was the largest extermination camp at the time and became known as the “final solution”. An estimate of 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at the camp‚ ninety percent of that number were Jews‚ and the second largest amount of people killed were
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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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Jew. It covers his life while he was hiding from the German army and after when he was brought to Auschwitz. Vladek Spiegelman was lucky to have survived the Holocaust because‚ of the dangerous situations he encountered‚ the time he spent in concentration camps and the deadly illnesses he contracted. While living in Poland during the height of WWII Vladek Spiegelman experienced many life threatening situations. A significant time Vladek got luck was when he was in Srodula‚ “Vladek had ran into a
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in various concentration camps. Both stories are viewed from a child’s perspective who has suffered a great deal physical and emotional pain from living within the camps‚ and if it weren’t for their fathers‚ they would have not survived. Life is Beautiful is a film that will make you feel a variety of emotions as it depicts the life of Guido Orefice’s love that he had for his family‚ and the sacrifices he made for his child Joshua. The movie shows how Guido is trying to make the camp as fun as
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people are willing to sacrifice‚ purely for the survival of others. “Night” also demonstrates the nature of the human qualities by showing that even in the most inhuman and cruel circumstances‚ we can survive something like “hell on earth” Concentration camps showed us inhumanity on a scale previously unimagined. However the setting in place of such inhumane behaviour began some years before with the systematic dehumanising of the Jews by breaking down social structures and relationships and taking
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In Elie Wiesel’s memoir "Night"‚ Wiesel tells of his horrifying experience in a Nazi concentration camp as a boy of 15. Deported by the Nazis‚ Wiesel and his family were transported in cattle cars to Auschwitz where he and his father were separated from his mother and sister‚ who they never saw again. At this point he starts his excruciating journey into the terror of the holocaust. In portraying his story‚ Wiesel uses a variety of literary devices including foreshadowing‚ poetic language‚ and a
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The author thinks that the gypsies would not be able to live where the germans wanted to put them. They thought this because the gypsies were not peasants and the area was very isolated away from cities and stores. Another solution was to send gypsies to labour camps so they would not reproduce any of their “kind” with any germans. The author thinks that the gypsies should be isolated away but should not be hurt and should be decently fed clothed and looked after. If there was ever a shortage of labour the gypsies would
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