Night Take Home Exam The one most significant theme in Night is inhumanity. This is displayed continuously throughout the book. When Elie first arrived at the camp the SS soldiers separated him from his mother and his sister. Later on he learned that his mother and his sister were sent to the gas chambers. The SS soldiers have no humanity indeed to have no emotion to be able to separate families and to know that they will most likely never see each other again. Another example is when the power
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Concentration Camp Research Paper The Holocaust‚ being one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century‚ was Adolf Hitler’s attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish race. Before World War II‚ close to nine million Jews lived in or near the European area. Nearly six million of those Jews were dead after the war. Hitler created these death camps or better known as concentration camps and used them as his main weapon against the Jews. These concentration camps played a big
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something we know that we have as a person. This is what the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights define. Even though it is our freedom‚ many of the actions in the memoir “Night”‚ a book about Elie Wiesel’s experiences at different concentration camps‚ violated these liberties. Article 3‚ 5 and 9 are infringed in this book of terrors. Certainly‚ Article 3 states that‚ “You have the right to live‚ to be free‚ and to feel safe.” Nevertheless‚ the book “Night” wasn’t following this
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Hitler created the Euthanasia program and put it into effect in 1939. The Euthanasia program aimed to eliminate “life not worthy of life”‚ meaning those who are not worthy of living. It “targeted‚ for systematic killing‚ mentally and physically disabled or ill people” (“At the Killing Centers” 3). This program was secret at first‚ intended for kids under the age of three. It rapidly started to widen its scope to seventeen years‚ then to full blown adults. Children were “killed when they arrived at
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Mark Herman opened my eyes to a different side of the Holocaust. The film was told through the point of view of a young child outside the camps and how this horrific event looked to them. Bruno being so young and naïve had no idea what Shmuel was going through. For example‚ when Bruno first found the fence and Shmuel he asked if he had any friends and Shmuel responded with kind of and Bruno was jealous that he had someone to play with and that Bruno was all alone
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to be sent away to concentration camps. The biggest of which was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was originally a camp for Polish political prisoners. Then it shut its doors‚ but little did anyone know it got reinstated. The camp of Auschwitz was soon to be the site of the most mass murderings ever in the history of mankind. The camp was rebuilt three times before it was reinstated. Bigger and badder each and every time. The camp had 3 major camps in the middle of the camp and 36 sub camps on the outer skirts
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Seventy-five years ago today‚ in a concentration camp in Oświęcim‚ Poland‚ a scientist named Josef Mengele conducted experiments to study the results in war-like scenarios that benefit the Nazis. Mengele was worse than Hitler himself and was one of the most wanted people for capture after WWII ended. Mengele was a notorious doctor responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. The Angel of death had the tasks of deciding whether people would be working in the camp or be sent to the gas chambers‚ and
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In chapter 3 of Night‚ Wiesel’s use of fire symbolizes death and destruction‚ and helps convey the main idea that the lives of the Jews have been altered by the war. When the train finally arrives at the concentration camp‚ all of the Jews on the train begin to worry for the safety of their families. The German men start to shout and beat people with sticks as they depart the train. Wiesel writes‚ “In front of us‚ those flames. In the air‚ the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight
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Metaphor—a literary technique used to clarify the “darkness inside a cloud” (Selection 2). The power of metaphor is utilized throughout the world of language on a daily basis to clarify‚ explain‚ and act as a moral instrument. Metaphor can be described‚ as it was by Cynthia Ozick‚ author of The Shawl‚ as “the mind’s opposable thumb”: just as one cannot grasp objects without an opposable thumb‚ one can also not write successfully without the aid of metaphor (Selection 1). Metaphor evidently has great
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like Eliezer when he was in the holocaust. He saw death and many more unhuman things done to children‚ women‚ and man. Throughout Eliezer’s dramatic adventure his faith was slowly consumed by the flames. Hitler declared all Jews to be put into concentration camp. Jews ran and hid under beds‚ walls‚ floors etc.‚ but it did not work because they were eventually killed. That ones that willing went outside were put in lines. Boys and girls are put in different lines and this is when his mother and sister
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