Comparing Fela Bernstein 's The Long Way Home

In the movie, Schindler’s female Jews were accidentally sent to Auschwitz instead of to Schindler directly. In real life, Jewish “deportees were forced to stand in crowded cattle cars without toilet facilities and upon arrival, were sorted into those fit for work and those— like children, the elderly, and frail— destined for the gas chambers. Camouflaged as shower rooms, the gas chambers held about twenty people each. Instead of water, the spigots released deadly Zyklon-B gas” (Berger 2). The women in the movie had to go through this horrific transition into an excruciatingly laborious and deadly place. In both—real life and the movie— “those not immediately killed had their arms tattooed with blue identification numbers and sent to work… literally until they dropped. They were clothed in stripped uniforms, fed rations of bread and watery soup, and forced to sleep in bunks crammed with other inmates” (Berger 3). Once Schindler released his Jews from Auschwitz, the women were deprived, starved, changed inside and out, and unhuman looking. One “hesitates to call them living; one hesitates to call their death death, in the face of which they have no fear, as they are too tired to understand” (Berger 3). The concentration or death camps left the imprisoned and survivors forever scarred from the experience as a

concentration camps! Marion Blumenthal Lazan was 7 when she first was forced to be put in a

The story I listened to was about a young lady, named Bella Jakubowicz. She went to the concentration camps. The Camp Bella went to was called, Bergen-Belsen. This camp was meant to be a death camp. This camp did not have a gas chamber, like the ones at Auschwitz. At the Bergen-Belsen, they had very minimum basicas. They spelt on the floor, on hay. There was nothing in the areas, they slept. Bella was told multiple times, they need to be punished (Oral

No one thought that the German army would go that far. “The Russian army’s making gigantic strides forward... Hitler won’t be able to do us any harm.” (Wiesel 6) Ellie suffered from inhumane and unacceptable handling, beatings, sickness and deprivation thought his time in concentration camps. He

“The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead” (47); even when there is a break in between the horror and pain of working for Nazis in concentration camps and suffering from hunger, it is dead, empty and inhuman; this meaningful passage about the complete and utter truth of concentration camps comes from a memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel. Vocabulary in this passage, is nothing short of exemplary, the words completely compliment the message being shared in this quote. Elie Wiesel describes the atrocious Buna camp as if it were through an epidemic, an outbreak, rendering people empty and dead due to starvation, lack of sleep, and over exertion. This paints a complete and thorough visual of how he viewed concentration

Many of Jews in the camp would work day and night, hours without food, and barely got any sleep. During the solemn service on the night of Rosh Hashanah, Wiesel thought, “But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, burned, what do they do?” (68). Wiesel had begun to feel angry at God due to the effects of emotional death from all the death and mistreatment in the camp. When Wiesel first arrived to Auschwitz, he claimed,“Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky,” (34).

One of those former prisoners of war being World War II veteran, Bob Nobels. "See we were good for three days, we had ammunition, food everything

The Holocaust was one of the most brutal, dehumanizing events in the world. American history explains how the United states fought for liberation of the many occupied by the Nazis. Throughout my years in school, I have learned about this topic, but not in detail. I had the chance to watch an amazing documentary titled One Day in Auschwitz. It featured a woman named Kitty Hart-Moxon, a Holocaust survivor of Polish-English background. Separated from her family, she was thrown into the well-known death camp, Auschwitz. She described her story of survival to two young girls; they were the same age as Kitty was during that time.

Irene’s father took action, determined to find a way out of Europe. He was told the name of a man who would be able to get the Butters visas and a passport to Sweden. Mr. Butter wrote to the man, receiving the passports when they were in the transit camp of Westerbork. These passports are what prevented the Butters to be sent to Auschwitz, instead they were sent to Bergen-Belsen.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

After liberating Buchenwald, Harry J. Herder described the conditions they had found in the camp as something that had haunted him for decades. “The things we found then were grotesque enough without knowing some of the other things we did learn later” (Herder 1). As they explored the camp, they discovered what had been happening to the people that were kept captive. Similar to many concentration camps, Buchenwald had a high death rate, starvation, and sickness. There was a nauseating stench that had permeated throughout the air because health and sanitation were the least of the Nazi’s concerns. Bodies were systematically stacked throughout the camp, ready to be burned. “Human bodies neatly stacked, naked, ready for disposal (Herder 4). The Germans couldn’t dispose of the bodies as quickly as they accumulated. The conditions of the living were equally horrifying to the

On January 27, 1945, a unit of the Soviet Army, opened the gates and entered the Auschwitz camp. The liberators discovered around 7,000 surviving prisoners across the three main camps of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buna Monowitz. Within those survivors there were 180 children; 52 of them under the age of eight. Many of these survivors had been decided to be unfit to join the final evacuation of thousands of prisoners by the SS just ten days earlier on what would become known as the ‘death marches’.

Once the americans came and rescued everyone. “ By 1945, 750,000 people were still alive in the camps, between 250,000 and 500,000 were to die in the last 6 months of the war. Victims of executions or the denial of food and medical care. By early 1945, the evidence of the holocaust was becoming clear, even to people who could not believe this would go on in the 20th century.” This citation is proving that after the marches many survivors was still alive. Another cite that proves my thesis is “The women were saved by the US medical team. They were amazed to find that the skeleton women who they thought were in their 70,s were in fact only 25-30 years old.” In this cite it explains how the girls got rescued by the US medical

They were searched and any possessions of value were taken by guards. Families of civilians were separated and anyone who dared to even speak was beaten. When the gates to the concentration camp opened, Robert heard screams, gunshots, and much worse. The guards then classified different prisoners with a marking system. Robert was classified with a red triangle, meaning he was a prisoner of war. Anyone who was deemed unfit for work was executed on the spot, and the rest of the prisoners were assigned arduous tasks. When a woman was separated from her crying baby, Robert protested. A large, intimidating guard instantly beat him for speaking out, knocking him unconscious. Everything then faded to

Concentration camps were made to keep Jews or people of different kinds away from the Nazis. Iby was sent to Auschwitz in the year 1944. She had no idea what was coming. Then, she and her other friends went to volunteer as nurses. At first, they had doubts that the offer was real since maybe it was to trick them into going a gas chamber. Then, they took the risk and volunteered as real nurses