Wiesel Interview Journal Prompt 7: What acts of inhumanity are still occurring in the world? What lessons from the Holocaust still need to be learned? The Holocaust‚ which also known as Shoah‚ was a genocide in which approximately 11 million people died‚ including 6 million Jews that were brutally abused and killed by the German military‚ under the command of Adolf Hitler. This is a shameful and scandalous episode of humanity’s history‚ is “Not of one crime but thousands of crimes done every day
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Over 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust‚ almost 1 million of them at Auschwitz. Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is a story about a young boy (15 to be exact) living through the Holocaust. His family is placed in a ghetto at first‚ but is eventually moved into the death camp Auschwitz. Throughout the Holocaust Elie loses all of his family members‚ his mother and sisters almost immediately‚ and his father just a few weeks before liberation. In Night we watch Elie learn many lessons about perseverance
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Analysis for “If You Forget Me” As a world renowned poem‚ “If You Forget Me”‚ which was written by Pablo Neruda‚ can be considered as the benchmark in literary circles‚ not only because of its excellent use of language‚ but also a variety of literary devices that are included. The most obvious device that is used in this poem is metaphor. Although it seems to be as a love poem for author’s beloved‚ it can also be considered a kind of love that the author devotes to his homeland. As the background
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Plot‚ characters‚ and theme page I read the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. It is about a young boy named Eliezer during the era of the Holocaust and is narrated through his words. He talks about his faith through the Jewish readings but is cut short when his teacher Moshe is deported. Moshe comes back and tells him the Gestapo shot them all down in a ditch and how he narrowly escaped. This sets up the story telling about the inhumane genocide of the Jewish people. After this‚ the Germans occupy Eliezer’s
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Watch The poems When You Forget to Feed Your Gerbil and Flash Cards both display the themes of responsibility and‚ they differ through the context of the speakers in each poem obtaining different feelings from their required tasks. The two poems are similar through the portrayed theme of responsibility. In When You Forget to Feed Your Gerbils‚ responsibility is shown throughout the poem‚ but is really given away in the last two lines. The speaker of the poem is a girl‚ and describes how she must feed
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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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Auschwitz Concentration Camp Imagine that you were a 14 year old Jewish girl riding with your family and hundreds of other Jews and Gypsies packed into one tiny railroad car. You stop at an unfamiliar place were a man is screaming at you to get out. You have to watch your step getting out of the railcar because there are already dead people on the floor who passed on the trip here. Once you are out you are separated from your family‚ woman on one side men on the other. Kids are franticly
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others that were sent to Auschwitz? Almost all of the prisoners transported to the death camp were murdered or starved to death. Millions of people were tortured and killed at death camps just because of their religion. Established on April 27‚ 1940‚ in the middle of Poland‚ Auschwitz became the largest killing center during the Holocaust. Auschwitz was the largest death camp with three main camps and 45 sub-camps. Auschwitz I was where the laborers worked‚ Auschwitz II was the main killing
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The Dentist of Auschwitz is the memoir of Benjamin Jacobs‚ formerly known as Bronek (born name Berek) Jakubowicz‚ a dental student and his journey throughout the Holocaust as a Polish Jew in the II World War‚ where he struggled to survive using only his dental tools and rudimentary skills. The author felt that it was his obligation‚ to let the world know how and why the Holocaust occurred‚ he wanted to speak out and let everyone know how they could treat someone else in such an inhuman way‚ where
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parts of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Furthermore‚ it was three different types of camps that were brought together: concentration camp‚ extermination‚ and labor camp (“Auschwitz was the largest camp”). All three camps played a major part in the Nazi’s “final solution” (Berenbaum). There were also subcamps part of Auschwitz. In just two years‚ 44 subcamps were built (1942 to 1944). Auschwitz also had different leaders. The first of the three leaders who controlled all of the Auschwitz concentration
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