The scar is red and ugly, the scabs huge and several blood clots litter my face: some are colored black, others blue, green, or purple. I cried silent tears until a Guard beat the tears out of me. Julia looks at me with scorn and Mark does what he can to comfort me, but nothing works. What would I do when school starts? I will be humiliated and teased constantly. Grandpa still looks tortured from last night—he still won’t look me in the eye, but he pats my head or squeezes my shoulder. Silent apologies, even though I am still upset and angry at him. While I wallow in grief, Julia slyly nibbles on bread Adam gave her before getting into the car. “Stop Claude. We aren’t getting off this train through your ingenious ideas,” she remarks …show more content…
Julia’s eyes widen and her mouth drops open, before she regains her senses and kicks the floor. Everyone is taken aback, onlookers’ eyes jump between Claude and Julia. “How about both of you keep quiet,” Grandpa spits at them before returning his attention to the wall beside Grandma. *** The icy wind at Auschwitz cuts through our thin clothing as we stand along the tracks. The snow is raining down on our heads—the tiny flakes sparkle in the artificial lamp light. The sky glows that light violet color that only happens when the moon and stars are invisible. Mom, Grandma, and Grandpa with some of the older people have been taken to receive a shower. They haven’t returned. I wish they were still here; Grandpa squeezing our shoulders and Grandma hugging us close. I feel awful for being angry with Grandpa for the scars even though I still am. Mark and I cling to each other while leaning against Claude’s legs. Julia and him stopped arguing long enough to lean into each other to get warm. Both have their arms crossed and their teeth chatter. Claude’s eyebrow is twitching with irritation. “Julia Schatzberg,” yells an officer with a brooked nose. “Hier,” she hollers
There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust consisted of many inhuman details, jews were malnourished, beaten, killed, and worked till they dropped. Wiesel and the rest of jews lived in nice homes with fires and good food and water. But then Hitler rose to power and sought revenge so he began to exterminate the jews. Elie Wiesel stated in his memoir as he recalls his time in Auschwitz, “Our bodies frozen. The stones were so cold that touching them, we felt that are hands would remain stuck...the middle of January my foot began to swell because of the cold”(Wiesel pg 78). The conditions Wiesel and the jews undertook were horrific. With all of the physical
.There are five themes that are focused on in AP World History which are significant in understanding World History. First, the major theme of interactions between humans and the environment is significant because the environment impacts a large amount of human society. Though the human society is also progressively making a change in the environment. In addition, the theme development and interaction of cultures is important for because observations from this theme can show how groups in the community see themselves and others, and how they react to varieties of conflicts. Observations such as religions, philosophical interests, and technical approaches. Next, state-Building, expansion, and conflict is another valuable theme for AP world for
Survival in Auschwitz written by Primo Levi is a first-hand description of the atrocities which took place in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. The book provides an explicit depiction of camp life: the squalor, the insufficient food supply, the seemingly endless labour, cramped living space, and the barter-based economy which the prisoners lived. Levi through use of his simple yet powerful words outlined the motive behind Auschwitz, the tactical dehumanization and extermination of Jews. This paper will discuss experiences and reactions of Jews who labored in Auschwitz, and elaborate on the pre-Auschwitz experiences of Jews who were deported to Auschwitz and gassed to death on their arrival, which had not been
The first of Dr. Nyiszli’s experiences is when he arrives seeing “signs in gothic letters announc[ing] it as “Auschwitz,” … which mean[s] nothing to [me], for [I] [have] never heard of it” (Nyiszli, 15). Not knowing what it is, he doesn’t fear much about what he’s about to enter. As he gets off the train, he goes through “selection” which separates” … the
We did not know that Auschwitz was an extermination camp or that we could be put to death. We did know that there was always this sickly sweet smell in the air. We saw a large chimney belching smoke 24 hours a
There were more than 40,000 concentration camps during the Holocaust. One of the worst and most destructive camp was Auschwitz, which was located in southern Poland (“Gilbert” 1). It contained three camps that were all known as Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a death camp and a concentration camp that claimed the lives of thousands. Survivors say that when the doors first open on the boxcar at Auschwitz there was an orchestra playing, this was to trick the prisoners into thinking there were somewhere better (“The Death Camps” 21). Physician Gisella Perl described the overall picture of Auschwitz she received when she first arrived as “Like big, black clouds, the smoke of the crematory hung over the camp. Sharp red tongues of flame licked the sky,
The Holocaust is one of the darkest and most saddening events in European history. The concentration camps in Europe, like Auschwitz, were places of torture and murder where millions of Jews were exterminated. As a Polish citizen myself, I have heard stories of the Holocaust that were passed down from my great grandmother who lived in Krakow, which is a small town close to where Auschwitz was located. My great grandmother and many high school history classes only ever mentioned the horrific treatment and extermination of Jews in Auschwitz. However, in 1944 Elie Wiesel’s account of Auschwitz in his memoir, Night, describes being transported from Auschwitz I, which was SS headquarters, to Auschwitz II, which was a killing centre, and then finally to Auschwitz III, which was a slave labour camp. My interest of Auschwitz’s three camps from reading Elie Wiesel’s memoir has led me to research and write about the different concentration camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Buna), that Elie Wiesel was taken to and discuss their purposes.
The framer's intent of setting up the American government will never be known for sure, but it is gathered that they preferred a republic to a democracy. In the constitutional convention the drafters had to decide how much power they would entrust with the people of the United States, and how much should be controlled by representatives. They chose to have Congress make the laws, and congress would be selected directly by the people. But another branch of government, the executive branch, needed a sole president and the framers had to decide how to choose this president. They chose from three main systems: elect the president by congress, the people, or electors. Many debates were made over this topic in the
Throughout time you may hear of a this place a place where some of the most unspeakable events occurred, some argue Ausccwitz is the worst place ever, some may even refer to it as hell on earth. In the book The boy was the striped pajamas it gives us a glimpse of how the main character had to leave his home and go live right next to Auschwitz. Throughout the book we see and get to imagine how gruesome and horrible living conditions were at the camp during that time. Although I personally feel like everytime the holocaust is brought it is almost inevitable to not mention Auschwitz being that the camp did play a huge part in what they were trying to accomplish at the time. Having said that I claimed to believe that there really isn’t much that we don’t know about the camp, but while i’ve conducted some research in the past recent days i have came across some interesting facts that I did not know or have never heard of.
Officers are the ones who protect the people. They need respect from the communities and the society.“If I get knocked down six times, I will get up seven times”(White). Police officers go through a lot of things on patrol, but they never give up. They do everything by their might in order to serve and protect. Officers who patrol are the ones who interact with the community everyday. In the green bay area, each year Green Bay Police Department (GBPD) patrol officers’ respond to or self initiate over 80,000 calls for service in the city of Green Bay. That is an average of 219 calls for service per day and equals almost 1 call for service per resident of the city. “Although call volume spike during the warmer weather, the patrol officers handle at least 3,000 calls per month, even in the dead winter”(GBPD).
Auschwitz was amongst some of the most diverse and intricate concentration camps during the Holocaust. The goal that the Nazis had was to make the camp look comely in order to blind the world from the evil that was taking place just inside the gates of the camps. Upon arrival at the camp the prisoners would see a railroad station, but one thing they didn’t know is that it was fake. The railroad station was just a disguise to make you feel like everything was normal, and even the clock itself was fake, it was painted on the wall to represent how endless time felt while in the concentration camp. Another decoration in Auschwitz was the Star of David stitched onto a purple curtain that was
Sit back, and imagine this: you’re sitting on a hard mattress. You can smell the smoke. The screams and tears of adults and children, just the same, fill the dirty air you breathe. Outside, acres upon acres of barbed wire and fortified walls. Platforms, cremation ovens, gallows, and gas chambers. The year is 1945, January 27th to be exact. This is a day that will be remembered for years to come. This is the day that the prisoners at camp Auschwitz being held by Nazi German soldiers were liberated.
There everywhere, we are coming in knowing it won’t be good. The soldiers yelling at people, dead bodies everywhere, grown men crying, and an awful smell. I wish they could feel the pain us jews are going through, losing everything in our lives, our friends, family, and our hope against them. A bird just passed by, which makes me think of that one phrase “Hope,” we have to show hope as a group because we will never get through this alone. Auschwitz is a very dark place where we, Jews, do not belong. We have nothing to live for here, more people will be killed and it seems like things are getting much worse.
In the background, multiple smokestacks, undoubtedly those of the crematoria, burn brightly, revealing the fate of those who cannot work: Murdered in cold blood by the SS. The products of their handiwork drift off morbidly, spelling out the name of their organization, juxtaposed against a blood red sky. Olere uses this imagery in order to contrast the Holocaust to hell, where one finds that the differences between the two are few are far between: The Jewish people are in a literal hell on earth. These crematoria stand as the defining feature of the concentration camps, symbolizing the mechanical efficiency of the Jewish Holocaust and making the hellish landscape a factory of death. This “hell” is the only path open for this family: The SS officer simply directs them to their fate. In the background, a mass of bodies, faceless, gray, and shapeless, are shown shambling away from the crematoriums, but not towards freedom: Only an uncertain gray. Elie Wiesel’s account of his experiences during the Holocaust more clearly reveals their fates: Upon entering Auschwitz, an inmate remarks: “We must do