Night
From the View of an S.S. Officer
This whole situation started out simple enough. The men and myself first moved into a little town called Sighet. The people there seemed so naive. None of them realized what was about to happen; none of them realized what happened when the Germans move into town.
We first started by imprisoning the officials and made all the Jews were yellow stars. The Jews were then moved into a very small ghetto and cramped quarters. It was obvious that none of them had heard of the horror of the concentration camps and what awaited them once they left the safety of their homes. Some of the officers and I tried to be nice to the Jews because I,
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I know some of them have to be lying about their age. Boys that are barely 15 claiming they are 18, but they only want what everybody else at the camps want; to stay alive.
Some prisoners and myself were transferred to a camp named Buna. It was a four-hour walk to the camp and once we got there the prisoners were required to undergo more medical exams to make sure they are still fit to work. The dentist even went as far as to remove the gold crowns in prisoners’ teeth. Things were going well for a few months although the officers and myself would take nothing less than hard work and cooperation from everyone. One day we had an unexpected air raid on Buna. The planes showered the camp with bombs and that is when things started to get out of control. People were trying to get away, stealing items, and trying to sneak some extra rations of soup. The officers were told to publicly hang anyone who broke the rules during this attack. We were made to do it in front of the entire camp so they could see what would happen if a person disobeyed. I was put in charge of supervising the hanging, but I couldn’t let morals get in the way. I was put here to do a job and that is what I had to do. We executed 4 people in total, including a small child just for trying to get food.
I was aware that the Jewish holidays were approaching and it required them to fast. The rations that were given to the prisoners were hardly enough to
Prisoners that arrived at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp came mostly from Poland or Hungary. When they arrived, they had to take off their clothes. Prisoners were forced to work in the quarry. They had to wear a yellow Star of David outlined in black that said Jew on it. In October 1941 the SS transferred about 3,000 soviet paws for execution
The first reason why I want to participate in NSLI-Y is because I will expand on my language ability. I am currently taking Mandarin Chinese at school, and I have been learning numerous amounts of new words and phrases in class. However, I believe that stepping foot into the country can help me learn more than what I learn in my class. When going to the actual country, I can pick up on tone and fluency more easily, as well as learn modern slang terms and writing. The second reason for participating would be to bond with students. Living in Iowa my whole life, I have not witnessed as much diversity as individuals from certain other states. I become enthusiastic when new exchange students enroll in the school I attend. The students always seem
The prisoners were put to work making radio equipment, flash lights, and stripping crashed airplanes. The prisoners were very hungry. The Camp had two sections. One section was for the political prisoners who opposed Hitler and the Nazis. The second section was used for jews.
Alex Gaudette will oversee operations while acting as the CEO. Sam Scrignoli will be our CFO and make sure our expenses are on track.Connor Wolvers will be in charge of the stocking of the warehouse and the store in Des Moines. Renn Umphress is our distribution Manage that delivers fireworks all around Iowa and also drives around a mobile store front. Alex will oversee any issues and help everyone else out if they need it. Sam orders the fireworks and makes sure the purchase is within our budget. He also balances the books every month. When the shipment of fireworks comes in, Connor is in charge of stocking the warehouse and also putting them in the front end so people can buy them. He also stocks the Bang truck
When the Jews arrived at the camp all abled men were ordered to step to the left and women and children were ordered to step to right. After all the prisoners were separated, they shaved the hair from each person and took away all their clothes. Then they were ordered to lineup and they tattooed them with pen and ink. If anyone were to cried they were beaten. They were no longer a person they were a number. Prisoners who were unfit for labor were sent straight to the gas chamber, which was disguised as a shower to trick the victims. All the prisoners were used for forced labor and spent more than 10 hours each day working. The rest of the time was time was taken up by roll-call assemblies, lines for food or for washroom to remove all the dirt and pests from their
I haven’t spoken to anybody so when i was gathering the items I asked some people if they knew when the guards weren’t there as much. But they didn’t have an answer, except for one guy his name was Abraham but he wouldn’t tell me unless I let him in on the plan which was very risky because if he snitched I’d be executed but i had to take a shot. When we went to bed that night I stayed up preparing myself for what all is about to happen. I woke up Abraham and we started to sneak out of the house when a kapo came up from behind us and started to interrogate us about what we were doing, We had to think fast and Abraham grabbed him up and took him out, I was shocked that was the first up close death I had actually faced but there was no way I could turn back now we went out and towards the side where only one guard would be until the fence. We darted towards the side when Abraham jumped on me and threw me onto the ground and pointed toward the fence where 3 guards and a dog
Writing has many tools and devices that can be used to influence the purpose and meaning of the a piece of work. In the two pieces of work, "Private License Plate Scanners Amassing Vast Databases Open to Highest Bidders-which is written in a way that it is anti-license plate tracking- and "Who Has the Right to Track You?'-which is written to be for license plate tracking- many different tools and devices are used by the authors. These pieces of work describe the benefits and drawbacks of collecting data and tracking fellow citizens, but use different forms of pathos, ethos, and logos to portray what they are trying to say. Also, both articles state how many are opposed to this tracking, arguing that it is against the First Amendment,
Concentration camps were filled with many people, and many that weren’t Jews. Concentration camps were meant to kill them by work or were to reform them. These camps were a terrible place to be because of the living conditions, the beatings, and the diseases that spread.
Therapeutic sessions assist in enhancing the member’s individual’s thoughts as well as those they are building relationships with. The support that they have from family, friends, significant others and the community is essential in their well-being as interactions with others are crucial for development of a sense of self (Meyer, 2003).
Regardless of who was healthy or not fasting is not supposed to happen during a time of a fight for survival. If any prisoner had a ration of food
1. As it is quite obvious in the story, the narrator does not think that these men and women deserve to die. This is abundant when in the very last line of the story the narrator states, “when will it be light?”
The SS officers would put everyone through selection and only the grown and strong would survive. Truckloads of children “Babies! Yes...children thrown into the pit of flames”(Wiesel 32) and grown men hung for all to see, their bodies waving in the wind like a flag. For those who did survive selection, they lost their names and were tattooed with their new titles “‘A-7713?’ ‘That’s me.’”(Wiesel 51) The Jews were consistently treated like animals by the Nazi’s and if that was not enough, they were also told how worthless they were.
All contact outside of the camp was forbidden. So, no one could talk to any friends or family outside of the camps. Starving was another way the Nazis killed the prisoners. The prisoners had the most revolting food. Some of the food they got was rotten. For breakfast they got 10 oz. of plain bread, a piece of salami, and a cup of bland coffee. For lunch the prisoners got plain soup with carrots. For supper they got 10 oz. of bread, rotten salami, or rotten cheese. Starvation was the second cause of death, some prisoners would wake up finding the people on their bunk dead.
When the Jewish first arrived to the camp, (tired, dirty, hungry, and thirsty from the train ride), they were immediately split into two separate groups men on one side and women and children on the other. After they were brutally separated from their families all of their personal belongings were taken away, and they were tested to see who could work and who was at this point, too weak. The weak workers were either shot or put into a gas chamber, while the strong workers moved on in the process. After tested for strength and endurance their heads were shaved (both men and women) and they got a number tattooed on there arm, to show what number prisoner they were. When that was over they6 were sent to the barracks, these were wooden or brick shacks full of 3 tiered bunks meant to comfortably hold 100-200 people. However there was an average of 700-800 people per barrack, or even more. The Jewish were fed 3 times a day, but it was a thin soup made of water and vegetable scraps (rotten bits, ends of vegetables, skins etc.) and bread made out of sawdust. Also the “prisoners” were forced to do grueling work such as carrying heavy bricks up a mountain or even collecting the dead bodies of their fellow religion, if they failed to do this work correctly or efficiently they would be beaten, shot, or gassed. By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million Jewish people and 5 million
I sprang up ran outside only to see everyone standing around at the bottom of the tower smoking and talking; it was just a test fire. Later that day we received a brief from the platoon that we were replacing about how things in the area had been going, and how much contact they had been taking lately. I turned to one of the privates from the unit we were replacing and asked him, “How much contact have you guys been taking lately?” He looked at me and smiled as he walked off. Our brief included a tour of the COP and all of the watch towers that we had to man at all times during the day as well as dismounted patrols through the neighboring ridgelines and villages. As the day drew to an end, I saw the guys we were replacing start to put on their plate carriers and grab their weapons to go sit near the towers. I was confused, so I asked, “Are you guys heading out now?” One of the team leaders looked at me and explained how they had been taking contact every day for the past few months at sundown. As soon as he told me I ran to go grab my plate carrier and go wait near the mortar pit with my rifle. As the sun began to set back behind the ridgeline that faced us, there was an eerily calming breeze that filled the air. For a moment I almost began to think Afghanistan would be a nice place for camping up in the mountains with your family. My short mental vacation was abruptly ended by the sound of automatic machine gun fire followed by the north tower yelling, “Contact!” before unloading into a mountainside across from him with the M2 .50 Caliber machine gun that was mounted on a tripod. My mind was overwhelmed with different reactions and feelings all at once. I was scared, pissed off, excited, and confused all at the same time. I started to panic for a second until I took a deep breath and remembered what I has been trained to do. I ran to the mortar pit and