Polish Civilians During The World War II

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel gives an account about his life in a concentration camp. His focus is of course on his obstacles and challenges while in the camp, but his behavior is an example of how human beings respond to life in a concentration camp. The mood, personality, behavior, and obviously physical changes that occur are well documented in this novel. He also shows, as time wears on, how these changes become more profound and all the more appalling. As the reader follows Elie Wiesel’s story, from his home in the ghetto, to his internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to his transfer and eventual release at Buchenwald, one can see the impact of these changes first hand.

Elie Wiesel, the author and the character in the memoir Night, fights to live through the Holocaust with his father. Wiesel, a 13 year old boy from Transylvania, his father, his mother and three sisters struggle to live through the Holocaust. Together the father and son battle against starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, and the multiple of brutal beatings given by the Nazis, while the mother and three sisters are separated from them. Finally after a hard year and a half Wiesel’s father dies of dysentery in Buchenwald, another concentration camp outside of Auschwitz, just shortly before Wiesel and his father could be liberated from the camp by the Russians. Hitler, a man corrupted by power, lead the Axis against the Allies. While doing so

Before the war started Solomon Radasky was living in a small town in Warsaw called Praga. “I had a very nice life there, I had my own shop. I used to make fur coats”(Radasky). The last week in January in 1941 his Mother and his older sister were killed. “One morning I was caught by the jewish police on the street and they forced me to keep the trains running and to keep the snow off the tracks, one day I was returning from work

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.

Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.

Literature encapsulates the human experience, reflecting facets of our culture, traditions, and beliefs. Literature functions as a tool to develop and explore empathetic links with other individuals and can provide insight into experiences removed from our own reality. Peter Fischl’s poem ‘Little Polish Boy’ is one such text in which we can attain a unique understanding of the horrors catalysed by war. An expression of Fischl’s own Holocaust experience, this poem is set in WWII, and addressed as a letter to an innocent child of the war from a photograph Fischl found years after the war ended. We can also learn of the loss and grief children face in times of war through the picture book ‘a Soldier, a Dog and a Boy’ by Libby Hathorn. The story follows a young boy orphaned by the Battle of Somme and he’s only left to survive with his dog before an Australian soldier comes to his rescue. These texts allow us to reach a better understanding of the different effects conflict has on children.

The movie Kanal presents a very realistic and factual representation of the Warsaw Uprising that took place in 1944. The main goal for the Polish resisters was to push the Nazi Germans out of Warsaw and help fight against other Axis Powers. However, the resisters’ plan was very unsuccessful, and subsequently, 200,000 Polish citizens were killed. In the movie, the resisters were characterized as low-level officers who didn’t have much

The chaos and destruction that the Nazi’s are causing are not changing the lives of only Jews, but also the lives of citizens in other countries. Between Night by Elie Wiesel and The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, comradeship, faith, strength, and people of visions are crucial to the survival of principle characters. Ironically, in both stories there is a foreseen future, that both seemed to be ignored.

Elie Wiesel’s life has been molded by the events he endured while in Auschwitz during World War 2. His memoir, “Night,” illustrates his life during the darkest moment in Jewish history. The story begins in 1941 in the town of Sighet, where Eliezer his parents are shopkeepers and he strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law. By 1944, the Hungarian government fell to the Fascists which resulted in the eventual oppression of Jews in Sighet, where Eliezer, his family, and other Jews are forced to wear yellow stars and succumb to the strict measures of the Germans. Later, the Jews are herded into ghettos, where they unknowingly awaited their trains for Auschwitz. By the end of his ordeal and his liberation from the camp, he had witnessed the

Several conditions in the Nazi concentration camps and work camps made it very hard for children to survive. The camps were tremendously ruthless.The epidemics that broke out in the camps, including the awful living conditions were very diverse mainly during the years that the camps operated. They were also uniquely contrasting in each different camp. Whereas many other conditions such as, executions, hard labor, etc. had a great effect of death of the children, some conditions were worse than others causing the children to pass away real quick. Medical experiments and living conditions had the greatest effect of death of children in the Nazi work camps during WWII. Not only were the children involuntarily used for medical experiments they were also forced to live in brutal living conditions.

Can you imagine seeing the glow of a blazing fire killing thousands of your people trying to set you free? Or having to crawl through a small hole to get food for you starving family. Or having to see the man that made you see and do all thoughts things. This and more happens to a little boy during his survival in the Warsaw ghetto. This is from the book milk weed written by jerry spinelli. And in this research essay we will be talking about 3 things that spinelli accurately depicts in the Warsaw ghetto.

The most memorable genocide constructed abruptly by German Nazis left both Jewish and German-Jewish residents of Poland in a whirl of destruction. 1933 had been the year that changed the lives of billions, but one young lady by the name of Stefania (Fusia) Podgorska managed to save thirteen, including herself along with her young sister. Upon moving to Przemysl and working a steady job as a grocer, ghettos in Poland had begun to be invaded, and her mother and eldest brother were not too lucky. Podgorska’s family had been sent to Germany for forced labor, like the rest of the Jewish community in that vicinity. While still without question, going through a rough patch at the grocery store, oddly enough, she had also been relieved simply because

Roma Nutkiewicz’s book re-tells events of what she went through from her childhood, leading all the way up to the end of the Holocaust. Roma shares her personal account of what living in the Nazi-era was like. Roma explains how in her early years she was just like any other child. She never saw herself or her family to be different from other communities, because everyone surrounding her was Jewish. Until World War II started. Not to long after Germans started to move into Warsaw, Poland where she lived and everything in her life changed. In the beginning it started with curfews, then she needed her identification cards at

Mala Weintraub Dorfman remembers looking out her window and seeing German officers, violently cutting off beards and ripping out peyas from Polish Jews in the streets of her neighborhood in Lodz, Poland; she was terrified of the German soldiers, and rightly so. The Nazis had invaded Poland and World War Two had begun. For safety, Mala’s mother sent Mala and five of her siblings to live with their grandmother in the Kozienice ghetto. There, she worked as a nurse in the ghetto’s hospital. Mala recalls a moment that she claims is one of two reasons why she survived the war. It was late and the end of her shift when she heard a man crying for help in his hospital bed. She went into his room to help him because no one else would. After she helped

In the graphic novel The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, the Polish people were conveyed as “selfish” and “ cruel” for the actions they chose to carry out, protecting themselves before the Jews. I do not necessarily believe the Polish people were as evil as the Germans during the Holocaust, but I believe that in this world no one is perfect. Everyone has done things that they are not proud of as human beings. I am convinced that the Poles are better than the Nazis because the Poles actually tried to assist some Jews by hiding them in their homes. As humans, we cannot really know what we would do in circumstances like the Holocaust unless we are faced with them. People may still judge the Poles for their actions however, they were humans beings making a human decision.