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    were prisons called Concentration Camps. These prisons were very brutal‚ well organized‚ and there were different types of camps. First‚ these Concentration Camps were very brutal. Some examples of brutality are “when a person is captured they were beaten‚ tortured‚ starved‚ murdered by being worked to death‚ and by being put in gas chambers or large furnaces. A result of these actions 100 people died daily at the camps” (The Concentration Camps). The point of these “camps” was to kill and get

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    ideas‚ should be eliminated from the German population.He carried out his goal by using a very systematic plan. One of his main methods of "doing away" with these people was through the use of concentration camps. In a meeting in January 1941 Hitler‚ along with some of his top officials decided on a plan that was called the "final

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    Humans losing their basic rights of freedom leads to delusion and them making questionable decisions. John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Elie Wiesel’s Night both take place during the Jewish holocaust. Both of the authors use multiple literary devices to deliver their respectives ideas about oppression. Boyne and Wiesel both use situational irony‚ symbolism‚ and foreshadowing to convey their message that oppression can lead to madness.t John Boyne uses situational irony relating to Bruno’s

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    During WWII & the reign of Hitler was the Auschwitz Concentration Camp‚ a labor camp‚ which could be considered to be one of the worst places for a person of the Jewish faith place to be at that time in history. Handed down through history‚ it is considered to be one of the brutalist places on earth that a person could be. As James Deem described it‚ “Prisoners receiving punishment were often placed in cramped basement cells and deprived of food” (9). To be put into simple terms‚ it was torture.

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    what is happening. Why is this happening to them? Where are they going to be taken? Little did they know it was not where they were being taken that mattered most; It was if they were going to make it out of this alive or not. In March 1933‚ one of the most gruesome events started in Germany. Hitler was established as chancellor and came into complete power. After that had happened‚ everything began to change. Hitler disliked like the Jews. He never

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    He asks how the people could not have acted against the holocaust when they knew it was happening. “If they knew‚ we thought‚ surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene. They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They

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    million were able to stay in hiding or survive the concentration camps. One survivor‚ Elie Wiesel‚ endured 15 grueling years (months?)  within the camp’s walls. His physical survival coordinated with his father’s guidance‚ personal strength and toleration‚ as well as luck. Shlomo WieselElie Wiesel’s father‚ was able to stay close to Elie through the concentration camps‚ giving each of them a reason to stay alive. During Elie’s time within the camp‚ he endured labour work (which led to further problems)

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    Buchenwald was a concentration camp during the holocaust. It was not cool. People died. Yup. Sucks doesn’t it? MmmmHmmm. Well I’m bored. Got to finish this paper though. So I’ll keep writing. About Buchenwald. And stuff relating to……Buchenwald. There was some stuff that happened at Buchenwald. But I can’t remember anything about it. I did some research and now I have some info on the topic. With all of its outercamps‚ Buchenwald was one of the biggest concentration camps inside the German borders

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    Elie Wiesel: Never Forget Elie Wiesel has written over thirty novels over the course of his life. These novels directly affect society in general and especially impact Judaism. He has contributed not only to his race and religion but to ever human soul who reads his work. Elie Wiesel does this by not allowing any to forget the Halocaust of the Jews. "Elie Wiesel was born in Signet‚ Transylvania on September 30‚ 1928. He grew up the only son of four children‚ in a close-knit Jewish community

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    were horrifying‚ since the Nazi’s took millions of Jews and placed them in concentration camps. One story told by Elie Wiesel‚ in the book Night describes how Elie survived the holocaust and lived to tell his story. His story describes of the mistreatment of the Jews and his father. The Nazi’s attempt to dehumanize the Jews is evident by the many hardships that Elie endured. The Jews treated like Elie Wiesel quotes “For God’s sake‚ where is God?” Mistreatment of the Jews began quiet

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