Dbq 11 Jewish Narrative

The ways Jews were treated in concentration camps show an accurate representation of how Jewish people were actually treated during World War II due to the

Describe: Liesel and her best friend, Rudy Steiner, has been walking through town when a woman in a window above them looks to the streets and announces, “Die Juden;” The Jews. This is when a vast amount of Jewish prisoners begins to march their way down Munich Street while Nazi soldiers barked orders at them. To everyone, especially Liesel (who had a Jewish person living in her basement), this was the furthest thing from a pleasant sight. And apparently, Hans Hubermann had enough of this, as if being controlled by God himself, Hans walked over and offered a particularly weak Jew a piece of bread out of pure sympathy, only to be beaten by overlooking Nazis.

It has been days. I stumble, foot over foot to the crack of sunlight that beams into the car. I feel the train rock back and forth, side to side as we tumble over the tracks to a “better life.” A better life. More bread. They care about us. I hear the screech as the cars stop as we are all tossed forward. “Welcome to Auschwitz, Jews.” I hear a man scream be strong. I hear the crack of a whip and gun shots. I know they lied.

The Nazis weren’t the only people who treated Jews like inferior beings; anybody who has the power can treat anything lower than themselves. “…a present whose abnormality suddenly becomes routine.”(Langer 6). The gypsy considered himself as the superior of the group so he could strike anybody he wants (Wiesel 39). When the gypsy’s life becomes too important for him, he has adopted to the way of the Nazis. As the Allied forces advanced, the Nazis led death marches as their last resort because they had concerns about their own lives. “...life becomes too much for man and death assuming the throne in the human imagination” (Langer 6). S.S made Jews run for hundreds of miles nonstop (Wiesel 85). They, the SS, were frightened that their cruel ways dug up, decided they had to bury the evidence which explained that they could not believe what the inhumane actions they engaged in with other people. People had the potential to manipulate other people in mass numbers but the second they think for themselves, they will find out what is right and what is not.

Bang! You door just got broken down by German officers. They yell at you and treat you with disrespect. They accuse you as a Jew and take you to a concentration camp. Well that's what it was like during the Holocaust. Hearing things about the bloodshed history makes you not wanna be alive during that time period, but a boy named Zigmond had to deal with the compelling plans of Hitler.

It happened because of the killing of a German officer, Ernst vom Rath by for a Polish Jew called Herschel Gynszpan (Moeller 105). I witnessed the frightful attack by the Nazis on places related to the Jews such as synagogues, their religious sites, and cemeteries (Bergen “Chapter 5”). All their shops’ windows had been smashed broken. The once graceful streets filled with shops have now been replaced by burned debris and fractures of broken glasses. The Nazis did not only attack their shops and dwellings, but they had also arrested and even murder huge number of Jews (Bergen “Chapter 5”). I saw a young girl being hurled down from a building. I wanted to help her but my timidity had locked both my feet on the ground. An owner of a shop had also been captured by the Stormtroopers, which separated him from his crying wife and daughter. At the sight of this, I thought of Bauer and became frightened for his condition. I leaped to his store, only to find an abandoned and distorted place. Fire has consumed Bauer’s shop, shelf was overthrown, glasses were shattered into pieces, and the safety of Bauer is the only one that I can hope for. When will this violence end? It saddens me to know that Germany is no longer the country it used to be, for racialism has covered it, and ‘unity’ has lost its

As Eliezer confronts Moshe about what had happened, Moshe describes that “Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets” (4). Babies are really fragile and need extra care. Instead of being treated more carefully, the babies were treated as nothing but targets. This stresses why the Nazis were able to treat the babies so carelessly. Elie Wiesel confirms that “Everything was in order, according to the prearranged plan” (80).

He was only a teenager when he and his family were forced out of their homes and into the barbarous concentration camps. He told stories of the things he experienced and witnessed; babies being shot, people being thrown into incinerators, children being separated from their families, and people who were ready to kill over a single morsel of bread. “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children.

The Holocaust is known as one of the most devastating, or perhaps even the most devastating incident in human history. On paper, the dizzying statistics are hard to believe. The mass executions, the terrible conditions, the ruthlessness, and the passivity of the majority of witnesses to the traumatic events all seem like a giant, twisted story blown out of proportion to scare children. But the stories are true, the terror really happened, and ordinary citizens were convinced into doing savage deeds against innocent people. How, one must ask? How could anyone be so pitiless towards their neighbors, their friends? In a time of desperation, when a country was on its knees to the rest of the world, one man not only united Germans against a

During the duration of World War II, the Jewish people of Europe were subjected to such inhumane actions at the hands of the Nazi party. Ellie Wiesel, in his memoir Night, describe this demoralizing treatment in great detail. As the reader delves deeper into Wiesel’s experiences, the dehumanization of the Jewish people becomes greater and greater. First, they were stripped of their possessions, then their names, and finally their dignity, and though the Nazi tried to finally stripped them of their humanity, they were unsuccessful.

The Nazis are very violent to the Jews. They, show no ery towards them, no matter what. They treated them as less than human. “I

“A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes … children thrown into the flames”(41). If you were not fit or old enough to work you were sent to the crematory right away. A lot of families were split up during the arrival. Mothers and their children were sent to the crematory; the fathers and their sons were sent to work. In the concentration camps, the amount of food you received was very little. In the morning you got a cup of black coffee, at lunch you got a piece of bread and at dinner they gave you a bowl of soup. Hard labor and very little food led to a long and agonizing death for the

Have you ever wondered how 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi’s without the world ever knowing? During World War II, millions of Jews in Europe were gathered up and shipped to concentration camps. In these camps, Jews were forced to do work, while death was the only other option. A man by the name of Eliezer Wiesel explains his own experience of living in a few different concentration camps inside his well known book Night. The Nazi’s didn’t care about their prisoners and dehumanized them in these concentration camps.

As I rushed through the fields there was probably no use, about 20 germans rushing after me. Keep running I told myself, keep running. I’m just a kid why are they going after me. Why are there bombs being set off every night and missiles being launched and gunshots, and leaflets.

If people had just stood up to the Nazis during the Holocaust, it may have ended differently. In an excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s Night, Martin Niemoller’s poem “First They Came For the Communists,” and Eve Bunting’s allegory of the Holocaust “The Terrible Things,” there is a common theme: not standing up to evil results in horrendous events. In all of these compositions about the Holocaust, the rest of the population stood by and watched people become diminished, thinking that it could never happen to them. In the end, though, the people, or animals, in the case of “The Terrible Things,” ended up getting taken away and regretting staying silent instead of speaking out and protesting. One piece of textual evidence is found in the poem “First