Leon: A Short Story

In view of the officials wanting their religious celebration to be over quick because the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community and how their first edict was “Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days”(wiesel 10). It clearly shows how the jews were even not being able to have peace on studying their religion. In addition, was when Hungarian police was kicking all the jews from their house. When the police start saying “All Jews,outside!Hurry!”(wiesel 16) it conveys how the police are not being fair to the Jews.

Although Eliezer survived the bloodcurdling Holocaust, countless others succumbed to the Nazi’s inhumanity. The Nazi’s progressively reduced the Jewish people to being little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place, as the Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Germans dehumanized Eliezer, his father, and other fellow Jews for the duration of the memoir Night, which had a lasting effect on Eliezer’s identity, attitude and outlook. Wiesel displays the Nazi’s vicious actions to accentuate the way by which they dehumanize the Jewish population. The Nazis had an abundance of practices to dehumanize the Jews including beatings, starvation, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, among other horrific actions.

Nechama Tec’s autobiography Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood tells the narrative of her experiences as a young Jewish girl in Nazi occupied Poland during the second World War. Nechama was able to survive, and protect her family, through the Holocaust by hiding her true identity and pretending to be Polish. She was able to do this because of her blond hair, light skin, blue eyes, and ability to speak unaccented Polish, which made her physically indistinguishable from an “Aryan” child. Nechama Tec’s story emphasizes the themes of identity, cultural assimilation, and passing, both socially and physically, as something that you are not, while also attempting to convey the entirely contradictory, hypocritical,

In 1944-1945, Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors to witness the lives during the Holocaust. He was only 15 years old to experience many brutal and harsh treatment between the Jews and the non-Jews. Growing up, Wiesel had faced many prejudice in the concentration camp as a prisoner by the Gestapos and other non-Jew workers. In 1960, Wiesel wanted to share his past experiences from the Holocaust by writing his memoir. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel discusses the theme of Racism. Through his use of atmosphere, tone, and foreshadowing, Wiesel is saying to reader that when one group deems themselves superior to another, they take the humanity away from the lesser groups.

The Gestapo were under Nazi rule and the leader of the police force was Heinrich Himmler. The Gestapo's main job was to hunt down jewish people and deport them to hard labor camps also known as Contraction Camps. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” Mr. Frank had to take his family the long way to get to the annex to avoid contact with the Gestapo. Everyday the Franks and VanDaans heard noises of the Gestapo marching and chanting, they worried one day they would be caught. When Anne heard her friend Jopie had been sent to a Concentration Camp she hated the Gestapo even more.

Racial hatred is prejudice and hostility targeting groups of color or ethnic backgrounds in various ways. “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a story about the author's experience during the Holocaust and how he survived through the harsh treatment of the concentration camps. Paul Rusesabagina’s “From An Ordinary Man” is about how the author saved many people from an ongoing tribe attack by putting them in his hotel. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”and Paul Rusesabagina's “From An Ordinary Man”, both the author's use of overall purpose, theme, and use of rhetoric help tell the stories of survivors.

I wonder what would’ve happened if the jews weren't exiled. Things started getting worse for the jews when nazis came into power in 1933. They already had a bad reputation sol when someone as powerful as hitler comes in it’s bound to get worse. With everything you heard about jews you wouldn't wanna look or touch one. But if for some reason you see one you would know that all of it isn’t true. To the hook nose, giant ears, flat feet, bad dressing, all of that isn’t true. Those are all stereotypes that people heard, and if you look at some kids you can really tell they’re just like us ordinary people.

Karls family were troubled by the Nazi’s throughtout the text. Their troubles gave us an insight into what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi

In fact, there are good mice and bad mice, good cats, and bad cats, and so on. The book reveals a relatively real society at that time to its readers, and it also considers how racial stereotypes still exists today, questioning that if we as a society learned something from the Holocaust.

Wladyslaw Szpilman’s story was both tragic and inspiring in some ways. His story teaches us that human nature cannot be broken down easily without trying to fight and survive first. Szpilman had to go through many hardships for him, as a Jew, to survive in Germany. No human beings should be treated the way Jews were treated during the Holocaust. At that time Hitler was in power and he used the Jews as a scapegoat because he believed that the Jews were the main cause of many Germany’s problems such as the Treaty of Versailles. Jews were treated like animals, they were caged and had no choice but to be confined to the Warsaw ghetto where walls built around it by the order of Hitler. They were also not allowed to walk beside the Germans on the

The main character, a young, German man named Peter Muller, was very traumatized by what the Nazi's and Gestapo (the terrorist political police of the Nazi regime founded by Hermann Göring, whose purpose was to persecute all political opponents of the Nazi regime) did to his father. Over the course of the movie, Peter went through a change; he saw his father in a new light, and realized what really mattered in the world around him. Peter's father was a violinist and professor at the university. He spoke out against the expulsion of the Jewish professors and the entire Nazi movement. Because of this, one night, in the middle of dinner, he was taken away by the Gestapo. He was brought back home

Rachel Roth had told us about her part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Jews infamous fight against the Nazis. This was not the same story we heard from Andrzej Wiczynski, who was a veteran in the Polish Warsaw Uprising. His story was full of “killing Nazis” and taking back Warsaw. There was no mention of Jews, or the Warsaw Ghetto until prompted by one of the students from the class and the professor. His silence speaks volumes and seems to be a theme throughout

I myself have always found this extremely interesting since they had a distinct hatred toward Jews. Also, People from certain parts of the world tend to share noted characteristics, so how were these German officers sure they were tormenting only Poles and Jews. The book even talked about people that were Jewish who could pass as Polish or other ethnicities. Per my readings, “A young girl lives in Warsaw on false papers not far from where the ghetto used to be her. Her blue eyes and blond hair make it possible to move about the city-cautiously.”

This passage from the story relates to the universal concept of Ourselves and Other but doesn’t support the idea of accepting other people who are different from themselves. The quote shows how the Nazis were deporting Jewish people and killing them because they were different from themselves. The Nazis considered the supreme race as the Aryan race, who had blue eyes and blonde hair. They were malevolent people because they killed a massive number of Jewish people just because they did not have the same appearance and beliefs as them. It also demonstrates how they were also cowards because they would say that the Jewish civilians who were deported were taken to work camps but in reality, they were being killed.

John Boyne has created a sophisticated and meaningful novel “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” through his portrayal of prejudice and discrimination. Throughout the text, he exposes society's perception, attitude and behavior towards different racial groups and people during the Holocaust in WW2. Bruno’s curious nature, captures the attention of the reader, and provides a platform from which to explore the atrocities of war. Bruno’s innocence shields him from the monstrosities of prejudice and discrimination, depicted by the attitude and behaviour of the people around him. In particular, Bruno bears witness to prejudice and discrimination propagated by Hitler, The Commandant and Lt Kotler.