A Sad Picture Taken In The Holocaust

According to the texts and eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused.

The quality of life on the Relief camps were horrible .Majority of the men working on these camps were broke and tired farm boys. These men were treated like salves. They would receive 20 cents a day for manual labor. A few of their tasks would include: widening a trail, putting in a culvert, or cutting and stacking wood. These jobs were very physically demanding and stressful on the body. The camps were run by the Department of National Defence, so the workers were under “army law”. So, the people in charge could say or do whatever they wanted. An 18 year-old who experienced a relief camp said “{We} were treated like dirt”. The only semi-positive thing about these relief camps were that they kept the workers well

We gave them soup and rations of bread. They had beds to sleep in. What was there problem. It was one normal day. The Americans were getting closer we had to move. When we loaded them onto cattle carts one hundred could fit into one. That’s how skinny they had got. Did I start to feel remorse. Sadly, no I didn’t, not yet at least. We traveled for five days. Every stop dead bodies were thrown out. They threw their own friends out just for more room. When we threw scraps of bread they fought to the death. All SS officers and people would laugh. They fought like savages. That is when it hit me that I now feel bad.

The Holocaust, yet another unpleasant time in history tainted with the blood and suffering of man. Human beings tortured, executed and starved for hatred and radical ideas. Yet with many tragedies there are survivors, those who refused to die on another man’s command. These victims showed enormous willpower, they overcame human degradation and tragedies that not only pushed their beliefs in god, but their trust in fellow people. It was people like Elie Wiesel author of “Night”, Eva Galler,Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser, and Solomon Radasky that survived, whose’ mental and physical capabilities were pushed to limits that are difficult to conceive. Each individual experiences were different, but their survival tales not so far-reaching to where the fundamental themes of fear, family, religion and self-preservation played a part in surviving. Although some of these themes weren’t always so useful for survival.

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

     The world that people lived in during the Holocaust is described by the personal experiences of the oppressed throughout the story Jack and Rochelle, written by Jack and Rochelle Sutin, and the memoir by Alexander Donat titled The Holocaust Kingdom. The horrifying mindset of the oppressors, particularly the Nazi`s, is illustrated in both books. The vicious and relentless emotional, physical, and psychological abuse the Nazi`s targeted at their victims is depicted in detail. The unspeakable cruelty received by the Jews dramatically altered their state of mind and how they lived their lives. The emotions of despair, distress, depression, hopelessness, helplessness felt by the Jews

Alena Synjova once stated, “ I’d like to go away alone where there are other, nicer people, somewhere into the far unknown, there, where no one kills another. Maybe more of us, a thousand strong, will reach this goal before too long” (Volavková, 1994, p. 50). During the Holocaust, people craved opportunity to escape to a place where there were polite people and no one killed each other. The Holocaust affected everyone, ranging from the elderly to the young children, who were faced with horrific situations. They witnessed the death of the people around them and were forced to live under unmentionable conditions. The holocaust altered non-Jewish and Jewish

Elie Wiesel’s short memoir Night recounts his experience surviving the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the third chapter of the book, he focuses on describing what it was like to arrive at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the process the men had to go through to transform from men into prisoners. In addition to lying about his age and occupation, Wiesel lost his hair, his clothing, his mother and sisters, his name, and most importantly, his faith. Elie Wiesel's use of imagery and diction in Night makes readers understand the true atrocities of the Holocaust.

Being a prisoner of war can change a person, dramastically. World war two, one of the most devastating wars; over fifty million people died, and yet this number is just a roundabout. One main factor, called the Holocaust, the extermination of six million Jews, gays, and anything German’s deemed unfit. Based on a true story, we venture through the mind of a young Jewish boy named Elie. Elie one day was taken from his home, and sent to a German concentration camp known as Auschwitz. Elie is soon to realize that this place is no joking matter. Through the process of selection, the disassemblement from his loved ones, and the deportation of saved ones to specialized camps, Elie questions his faith in God, himself, and his welfare of family members.

This essay will be about the author telling the readers everything and every little thing that had happened at the concentration camp that he went to. He wrote this story to let everyone know that the memory of what happened still goes on and other people should know about it. Writing this story will make sure that no one will forget the torture or pain that every last person had went through while their time at auschwitz. Elie Wiesel said a statement that related to the fact that no one cared about the people at the camps, that they didn’t put any effort to try and stop anything that ever happened. He wanted everyone to know all the hurt and torture that him and everyone else went through.

“Life is a matter of perspective. It can be amazing or wonderful, or it can be depressing and worthless” (Gray, n. d.). In this quote Stephen Gray (n.d.) dials in on the psychological view on life. Furthermore, he details on how in the novel Night (g, 2006, p. 94) and in the movie “Life is Beautiful” (2000), the Holocaust was experienced both similarly and differently through the father/son relationship, the tone of the piece, and experiences of the Jewish prisoners. This essay seeks to juxtapose two historical works on the Holocaust.

By seeking the opinion of other prisoners and other people whose stories are found in the book, the author seeks answers for the question of whether it is possible for the victims to forgive their tormenters. It is said that the environment, the practices and tradition of the surroundings of the victims of the holocaust are shaped by the experiences that they had in the concentration camps where they were

Throughout the film Image Before My Eyes, directed by Josh Waletzky, viewers are shown videos, pictures, and interviews regarding European Jewry from the late 1910’s to the 1930’s. Though this is a film explaining the events and upheavals that led up to the Holocaust, the word Holocaust is rarely ever mentioned. It is through the use of multimedia in this film that the devastating history of the Holocaust becomes illuminated. The film allows the viewer to begin to fathom the destructive events that occurred between the two World Wars as well as the secularization of daily life for Jews throughout this time period.

Indeed, whether it is in history or everyday life in general, a new comprehensive vision on the Holocaust, in affiliation with discrimination and predisposition, will convolutedly fuel our burgeoning brains. Similarly, not only our collection of knowledge about these matters will proliferate, but rather it may even institute some new inquiries and symposiums to even you, providing you with more insight on the arguments relating to the Holocaust. In addition, speaking and conferring with a class may even bring up some new challenges and milestones for you to overcome, as presentational and communication skills are a key in such discussions and panels, and in any field of study. Moreover, in speaking to millennials shall validate a gap, as millennials are more frivolous and one dimension, unlike the ongoing students at St. Elizabeth’s School. Not to mention, an exceeding extent of mastery we have acquired about the Holocaust has come from a grimy and predominantly outdated textbook, unable to advance with ongoing studies in this field. Thus, we very much yearning for a taste of your expertise in the field of study, concerning the Holocaust, to make critical connections between the past and the present, through the themes of discrimination, prejudice, and