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Despair sets in when Danilov believes Tanya has been killed while attempting to help a friend escape the madness that was Stalingrad. He searches for Vassily and finds him in a desperate standoff with the German sharpshooter, each patiently waiting for the other to show himself. Danilov mourns the loss of his dream of a life with Tanya

The concentration camps from World War II are part of a painful and tragic incident that we have learned about in school for many years. And while we are taught the facts, we may not fully understand the emotional impact it had upon the humans involved. Upon reading Night by Elie Wiesel, readers are given vivid descriptions of the gruesome and tragic behaviors that the Jews were forced to endure inside he treacherous concentration camps. Among all of the cruelties that the Jews were exposed to, a very significant form of the callous behaviors was the demoralization of the prisoners. Each inmate was given a tattoo of a number, and that tattoo became their new identity within the camp. Every prisoner was presented with tattered uniforms that became

The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender is based on her experiences during World War Two in the Holocaust. Riva and her family lived in Poland before the war, but once it became occupied during the war, they along with thousands of other jewish families were moved into the ghetto where hunger became part of their everyday lives. Once they arrived they were torn away from their loved ones, and sent to concentration camps where the horrors progressed at a very rapid rate. This book is about the emotional and physical battles Riva and her family endured during the war. They may have killed us physically, but we will remain strong mentally.

Imagine a missile coming through the peace of which once used to be a beautiful clear blue sky. The sound of the shell is low but builds as it comes down to break for impact on the streets. Giving a group of innocent civilians not enough time to flee, or at the very least take cover. Before time to react, the shell hits and explodes leaving twenty-two people dead. The civilians were simply hoping to be able to buy some bread for their families, but ended up facing death. The Cellist of Sarajevo, a novel by Steven Galloway, brings an interesting story by using internal conflict of three characters living through war, to demonstrate a theme, of the great possibilities of regaining humanity with the belief of a better life and a brighter future,

The central idea of this book is a little girl and her struggle in concentration camps the author shows this by “ tomorrow is deportation”( Leitner 3) . This happened on May 28, 1944 where she started her journey in the camps. She explains her feelings and fairs of them too and how she's not ready to leave this place called home because she was living in hungary and she ends up having to move away. Something else that is showing Isabella’s struggle is ”Every since childhood,I remember them with terror in my heart.” (Isabella Leitner 5). In this quote she is talking about the people that heard them like cattle and stuff. This was also the people that would kill them and make them do horrible things.These were the people that didn't make them feel like people. “75 to a car... no toilets... no doctors ... no medication”( Leitner 7) Isabella is talking about how they were moved place to place in these little cattle cars and how horrible the conditions normally where. Imagine being shoved in

When people look at two extremely different stories such as Night and Life is Beautiful, they would not expect there to be many similarities. However, these two devastating tales are more alike than suspected. Both Night and Life is Beautiful may be two accounts of the holocaust, but that does not mean that they bring the same thing to the table. They both may include a somewhat similar father-son relationship, yet they still aren’t that same. Night, a tragic memoir of Eliezer Wiesel, and Life is Beautiful, a humorous and still somewhat depressing movie of Guido and his family, have numerous similarities as well as drastic differences between them.

You would think, a young boy, sent to different camps, fighting to live, gets luckily abandoned by the surrendering Nazis and saved by the allies. But, the story is so much more. The boy is taken from everything he knows and loves and has to find a way to live. He is left with nothing and everything valuable is taken away. He is then marked as an object and treated worse than a

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

Loss of humanity would leave the world with nothing but darkness and despair, likewise, in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he expresses some of the hardest and scariest situations that he or any human can experience in the early 1940’s concentration camps during the reign of Hitler. He uses metaphors and figurative language to describe his machine-like and deathly body that only burdened him during this grueling time. He uses asyndeton to describe the feeling of ceasing to be alive and how his body is merely thinking and not feeling anything that is going on around him. He describes what he sees and hears around him through the use of short sentences and figurative language so the reader can focus on the scenes he describes. The author’s purpose is to express the feeling of the loss of hope in humanity because he is trying to teach a lesson by using his own personal experiences as a way to show how terrifying it would be to feel as he did during this horrible time.

He left his innocence and is weisel’s first glance into the horrors of the holocaust. Another extended metaphor in night is juliek’s violin. Julieks violin represented hope. A last bit of hope that withstood brutality and sorrow. “Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.”

The short story “The Death of Dolgushov” by Isaak Babel is a gut wrenching story, at times literally, about the dilemmas of killing. Babel, a master of the short story, challenges readers’ morality by contrasting two soldiers plights. On the one hand, a soldier, Dolgushov, pleads that he has “had it (241),” meaning that he wants his comrade to kill him after being mortally wounded by machine gun fire; while on the other hand, another soldier, unnamed, cannot bring himself to kill Dolgushov. Throughout the story, war is depicted as a game until a soldier gets seriously hurt. This device, combined with the vivid imagery associated with both soldier’s plights, complicates how readers’ judge the act of killing and war in general.

The main characters are people who want to survive but there is a long and difficult way in front of them which they will have to conquer. However, they have already adapted to this kind of life and they are survivors. This page is interesting and admirable because of the middle panel where the readers can see Anja and Vladek from behind going in the unknown direction. They are singled out because other survivors seem to know where they are going because one of the people says: “We’ll be hiding at this address. When you find a safe place, try to contact us, Vladek” (Spiegelman 125). The survivors care about the well-being of one another. Anja and Vladek are depicted from the upper angle which implies their vulnerability and the fact that they have no shelter. There is nowhere to go and the only path is through the road in the shape of the swastika. It is clear that they are the survivors of the Holocaust, but it does not mean that they have solved all of their problems. They are alive and they have to find new life now which is going to be difficult. It can be observed from the panel that they are elegant and brave people and they are Art’s parents. They are holding hands, because their intimacy is all they have and they are probably wearing all of the clothes they possess. It is obvious that they were people who were not poor, but the Holocaust happened and made them lose their

This book shows that the Germans and Hitler had something wrong with the Jews, and it shows that people should not get mistreated just because they are different than them. The physiological need of the people in the camp are trying to stay alive, and trying to defend for themselves,and trying to find food and water, They also dehumanize them by putting numbers on their wrist, and making them work in the cold weather that makes them feel dehumanized.

Viktor Frankl explains life and wonder if it has any meaning or value. The whole point of this book was to simply describe how life holds a potential meaning under any condition, even the most miserable ones. This is a reliable source because the author explains his experiences he had at a Concentration camp based on everything he went through and still surviving to this day. My topic is the Holocaust that occurred in the 1945’s and that how it ties into Nonna Bannister in The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The untold story of Nonna Bannister. I will use this source and compare Frankl and Bannister and how they both survived the horrible tragic. This source draws in perfectly since I examined how the people have survived during this awful time and how it affected both Viktor Frankl and Nonna

The holocaust has effected more lives than anybody could imagine, the tragedy has not only affected those who were there or primarily affected but those of every generation to come after that. This illustrated by Art and Vladek’s inability to get along, Vladek’s personality quirks, Anja’s suicide, Art’s guilt, are all factors that contributed to the rocky family relationship the Spieglemans had, and are all due to the horrors of the holocaust. The horrors of which did not end when the Nazi’s were defeated in WW2, rather continuing to have an impact on further generations, in which all of their stories will never be