Daniel Libeskind Research Paper

Elbert Frank Cox was born December 5, 1895 in Evansville, Indiana He grew up with his parents, maternal grandmother and two brothers. Elbert F. Cox was born and raised in a college town in a racially mixed neighborhood, but at segregated schools. In fact, his father, a school principal, had graduated from Evansville College and had done graduate work at Indiana University. Raised in a close knit and religious family, Cox learned the importance of education and fostered a talent in mathematics. During his life, he overcame various difficulties which arose because of racism. When young Elbert demonstrated unusual ability in high school mathematics and physics, he was directed toward Indiana University. With all the separation and hardship and strife around him at the time it inspired him to strive for a better education. At high school Elbert showed talents which made his choice of career a difficult one. He was a talented violinist but also showed remarkable talents in mathematics and physics. Cox was awarded a music scholarship which would have enabled him to travel to Europe to study at the Prague Conservatory of Music. His love of mathematics won and he entered Indiana University.

The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden.

The relationship between a father and son is one of the strongest relationships between family members. A son looking after his father might seem unusual, but in unusual circumstances, relationships are often forced to adapt. The father is the mentor and the son should look up to the father for support and guidance. This relationship plays out in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, through the concentration camps. Hitler and the Nazi’s have been deporting Jews to concentration camps and eventually killing them. Wiesel travels through the horrible circumstances. In 1944, Elie Wiesel lives in Hungary with his parents and his three sisters, but they deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and is split up, but remained with his father. Wiesel describes his experiences traveling through different concentration camps with his father, Shlomo. Wiesel tells about the different people he meets and events that happen. Wiesel meets other fathers and sons, whose relationships are not going well. Elie and his father stick together as they face many challenges. As time went on in the camps the fathers became weaker and their chances of survival decreased. The sons helped their fathers go on, but this would slow the sons down. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses the motif of father-son relationships to show that while there are benefits to having a strong connection with someone amidst extreme circumstances, there are also disadvantages because the other person may become a burden.

In 1940s Germany, during Hitler’s “Third Reich”, Jewish families were determined to be a threat to the economic and spiritual development of the nation. In order to “save” Germany, the first solution was simply to force Jews into ghettos. Later this led to them being forced into concentration camps where they were systematically destroyed. Millions died in such a manner and of the survivors, many families were destroyed. Jewish families were separated primarily because during the forced labor expeditions of the concentration camps, they were separated according to gender. Men went one direction and women went another; after the war was over, many assumed their families were dead and if anyone had survived they hoped that they might one day reconvene somewhere far safer than Germany. Nazi emphasis on utility and practicality led to the separation of many Jewish families, as they gladly relocated Jews according to their needs and killed those who they had no use for.

Regarding to how the Nazi’s treated the Jews and changed their life politically one of the

Before World War II, Elie Wiesel led an ordinary life for a teenage Jew at

All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” (30) They were each other’s reason to keep on living. As much as the situation they were in brought them together, the concentration camps also put a strain on Wiesel’s and his father’s relationship. “What had happened to me?

Eliezer and his father were separated from his mother and younger sister when they arrived at Birkenau. Eliezer’s view began to change and he started to see his father as someone who he admired and did not want to lose. The horrors of the camps made them value their relationship. Their goal was then to remain alive and to remain together. As his father’s health began to worsen, Eliezer did everything to try to keep him alive.

Elie Wiesel, a pious boy, grew up in Sighet with his family until anti-Semitism imprisoned all Jews in ghettos skirted with barbed wire. The Jews of his town, were upbeat and grateful, despite the hard times, to be together as a religious community. Bronia’s Polish hometown of Kosowa was also separated into ghettos. When the Nazis planned to liquidate the ghettos, Bronia’s family hid away in a small 12x6 foot underground room with a pipe installed for air circulation, in contrast Elie’s family marched from their home with a few souvenirs to a destination of unknown fate. Each families’ decision resulted in two extremely different experiences, in which both struggle to survive through starvation, persecution, mental and physical abuse.

Elizer Wiesel, Elie for short, was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30th in 1928 to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. He had two older sisters and one younger sister. He was born into a very religious family, starting his religious schooling at the very young age of 3. Though this widely recognized author, journalist, and social activist is mostly known for his memoir telling of the horrors of the Holocaust it was even during his childhood he, his family, and his fellow Jewish community faced discrimination and injustices for their religious beliefs. In an interview for achievement.org he told of how twice a year on holidays such as Christmas and Easter he recalls the “anti-Semitic outbursts” and how he and the other Jewish people were afraid to go outside of fear of being beaten

When Elie asked his father to sell everything, and move like his friend said to do, Elie’s father refused because he was too old and he was afraid of the new world he may find. Elie’s father is getting old and he does not feel like moving because to move would mean that he would have to start completely over and make a new life some other place. The Jewish police were roaming the ghetto’s where Elie and his father lived. “They were followed by Jewish police, who, their voices breaking, told us: "The time has come … you must leave all this … “‘ (Weisel 16). Elie had to move out from where he grew up, and this quote is from where Elie is being told to move by the Jewish police.

Wiesel had a typical childhood until 1939, the year when Germany invaded Poland and Jews were forced under Nazi rule. Elie Wiesel was born on September thirtieth 1928, in Sighet, Romania. He wanted to grow in his relationship with God as a young man and even had a spiritual mentor. However, during this time Jews were being prosecuted. His family was forced into Jewish Ghettos under the Nazi regime. The ghettos were a part of a city, especially a slum area occupied by a minority group. The family was not able to escape in time and had to deal with the loss of their home and possessions. Elie and his father were prisoners at Auschwitz, the main concentration camp, here, Wiesel witnessed the death of newly born babies and the killing of hundreds

In the 1940s WWII was in full swing. People in both Europe and America were having their civil liberties taken away from them wrongly. In the story Night by Elie Wiesel and the story Return to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston show the real lives of people living in these camps. One of the most eye-opening parts of this book was the way Jeanne and Elie’s family were changed. Though their experience differed their biggest change was their relationships with their fathers.

At this point he had just woken up from his first night in Auschwitz, he had look at his dad and said how he changed and had a veiled look in his eyes .He said,

vacations to museums in Europe. When he was 15 he really became intrigued by his