Prisoner B 307 : Oral Report

Prisoner B-3087 was an intense story about a ten-year old boys will to survive during World War Ⅱ. Throughout the story we are brought through ghettos, concentration camps, death marches, and work camps that are all made up with the intention of wiping out the population of Jews. Each place he ends up is worse than the last they have less food, stricter staff, and harder work. The only way to survive is to work and be invisible because if you stand out you are a threat and you will be killed. Yanek, the ten-year old boy who tells this story is surrounded by death. His entire family is wiped out by the Nazis, but he must survive, he will not let them take his life. He succeeds with much determination and follows his dreams to america where

During this week I read Prisoner B-3087 By Alan Gratz, Yanek was moved around to handful of concentration camps. Yanek was moved a camp called Birkenau. Right when the Jews arrived at the camp they were ordered to take their clothes off. They had been put in a room with sprinklers on the ceiling. Yanek was thinking to himself this is going to be the end, I’m going to die. Then the sprinkles turned on and ice cold water came out. In the text I read, “ I was going to live! I laughed I cried, and so did the other men.” This made me realize how thankful Yanek was. I can relate to this because I have been thankful, last year my great grandma had a stroke, Half her brain ended up dying and she was paralysed. After I found out she pasted away I was

In the 1940’s, the typical way to attain News is by radio, so it is a mistake if one takes the only news source he or she has lightly. In Night the Jews of Sighet perform this mistake by ignoring the change of power to Fascist. During the time Germany invaded Hungarian territory, Ellie and his family received terrifying news of how the Fascists are treating the Jews. The Budapest news reported this: “The Jews in Hungary are living in an atmosphere of fear and terror. There are anti-Semitic incidents every day, in the streets, in the trains. The fascists are attacking Jewish shops and synagogues. The situation is getting very serious” (Wiesel 7). Here and there, anxiety begins to stir up, but in a while, confidence begins to settle right back in. Accepting that their Hungarian brothers were being persecuted may have led the Jews to escape but they deny that anything of major significance could happen to them. An additional form of

As the war dwindled down, the Bilecki family lingered to their Polish home. Though they were rich in heart, the friction between the slips of tinted cash and the jangling of the metal coins were the only sound that seemed to be worth hearing. Sadly, for them there was a lack of it. The Jews that they saved acted as their guardian angel, as the Bilecki clan did for them. From all around the world, across the sea, the Jews kept them from malnutrition and naked chills. It wasn’t until 1998 that the secret of the Bilecki kindness was unveiled. Not only did they get the recognition they deserve, the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous had planned an infinitesimal surprise. Waiting, as the sounds of aircrafts roared, stood five of the survivors the Bilecki family had guided to asylum. The vulnerability of the raw moment was exposed as they shared their tears. The applause throbbed emphatically like the robust flapping of an angel’s wings. Their life saving feat did not go unacknowledged by the Righteous Among the Nations. Their unselfish deeds of valor and grace set themselves into being heroes.

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.

The rumors were the people taken were killed or went to the camps but you didn’t know for sure until you were on the truck. Yanek was soon taken away to a concentration camp shortly after his parents were trucked away. After Yanek was trucked away he stopped at multiple concentration camps where people were killed daily. He could see in plain sight around 30 dead. There were additional rumors even more people were made into soap for the Nazis. At approximately age 14, Yanek finished his first concentration camp. He was then moved to Auschwitz, the most well known camp. Yanek met lots of people at the camp despite his uncle telling him not talk to anyone because it could get you killed, Yanek made friends but soon after he made friends Yanek would watch them be killed. After he had been in concentration camps for years and he could hear guns and bombs in the distance and growing closer every day. When he was at his tenth camp, Yanek was barely alive. He wondered if he could survive additional years in the Nazi camps. He questioned whether he might be shot or turned into soap for

“Why had I worked so hard to survive if it was always going to end like this? If had known, I wouldn’t have bothered. I would have let them kill me back in the ghetto. It would have been easier that way. All that I had done was for nothing.” Based on a shocking true story, this excerpt shows one of Jakob Gruener’s largest conflicts throughout “Prisoner B-3087” by Alan Gratz. Jakob, a young jewish man from Poland, perseveres many concentration camps and death marches, and seems to vary between the determination to live, or give in to the Nazi brutality and die. The story takes place during World War II, when the jewish people were taken by the Nazi Rich (Rike/Bike) in concentration camps, Jakob being one of the millions of jews taken. Jakob

In 1940 , Hungary annexed sighet and the wiesel’s were among the jewish families and forced to live in the ghettos.May 1944,Nazi Germany with the Hungary’s agreement, forced jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of Fifteen Wiesel’s family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million jews. Wiesel’s family was affected during the holocaust, all jews were forced to have their heads shaved and a number tattooed on their heads after all the men left the barber they were all standing around naked finding acquaintances and old friends, they are joyful at finding each other still alive. Elie Wiesel’s Night highlights the overarching issues of discrimination toward the Jews as they are forced to abandon their lives and face a death that consumer their existence, relationships and faith.

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

The most exciting chapters of his work were his “Early Years”, “Refugee Years”, and “Alerting the World to Genocide”. Lemkin uses imagery to tell his story of running away from his town Wolkowysk, Poland after it was invaded by the German Nazis. Lemkin states, “ My entire Jewish population and family was exterminated” (Lemkin 15). His family wanted him to be the one who tells the world what the Nazis did to his people.

Source B is all about the eight stages of genocide. The second stage of genocide is symbolism. The stage symbolism states, "Names or symbols are given to those who are classified as 'different'. Jews living in Nazi occupied Europe were made to wear the Star of David. This quote provides that the government was enforcing laws that any Jewish person had to wear a Star of David on their clothing.

The Nazis acted evil and completely hated all Jews. They didn’t believe in Judaism which increased their hatred towards the Jews. The Nazis tortured,starved and beat the Jews to death. They made them work very long hours in concentration camps. Yanek and his family were affected by many of these unspeakable horrors from the Nazis.

The year was 1942, and many Jews were living in Paris, France. The French didn’t have a problem with the Jewish people, but the Germans did. Germans had ended up taking over the French Administration, and the Anti-Jewish Policies were all worked up. July 16th was the night that everything changed. Around 4,500 French policemen began a huge arrest on the Jewish people. There was around 11,000 Jews arrested and placed into the winter stadium. The prisoners were kept in crowded conditions without food or water.

Don’t let other people bring you down, the Nazis are trying to make the Jews feel hopeless and make them feel like their lives are useless. But, Yanek somehow finds strength within himself to not feel pointless. He is devastated when his mom gets taken away. (On page 62) It made Yanek

During August, a new regulation ordered all but working essential Jews to be relocated. Jews would beg for jobs on the streets. Oskar hired unskilled workers just to make sure they weren’t deported. Oskar’s factory was distinctive from other workplaces, for one thing, no one was ever