Teens Who Fought Hitler By Lauren Tarshis

The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.

During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.

The holocaust took the lives of six million persons, Jews, Catholics, and homosexuals. Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel was a book about the life as a Jew in the 1940’s. He explains how he suffered during the year that he was there, the camps he was at. The pain that he went thru getting separated from his mother, finding out that her and his sister Tzipora got sent to the crematorium. Life for a Jew in the 1940’s suck. Elie went thru dehumanization because of the way he gets treated in the concentration camps, from getting called dogs to being choosen like cattle.

In 1944, World War II was close to over, but not for everyone. Six million Jewish people had been taken from their homes and put to the most dehumanizing work in history by being transported to concentration camps to work 12+ hour shifts. With little to no food, complete segregation, and torturous treatment by sadistic guards, this time of life was a literal hell for these Jews. The SS guards stationed there were so brutal, that the prisoners felt constantly in fear for their lives. In the award winning memoir, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he narrates his experience as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. At the concentration camps, they were separated and put to work, not office work, interminable amounts of forced labor, no mistakes, and if so, shot or beaten to death. The Nazis decimated the Jewish population, and in doing so, exposed Hitler’s true intentions and cruelty. Wiesel discloses the radical changes that the Jews undergo, from normal people, with family and friends, into violent, self-centered crazies who look out for no one else and must fight for

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

Over the past couple of week I have been reading the book Prisoner B-3087 which is a book about a Jewish boy named Yanek Gruener during WWII. Yanek was very young at the start of the war, around 10, and he lived in Poland his whole life in a flat apartment. He was growing up with Germans approaching him. His father always said that they would never reach them, but one day they did. The Nazis came marching in, took over the city and built a wall with gates so no one could leave. The let out all the non Jews and kept pushing more jewish families into the “Ghetto”. When the Ghetto started to fill up the Nazis would soon start killing people and taking them to the concentration camps. Yanek’s family soon started to be taken in trucks off to

The actions the Nazis committed during WWII were unbearable for even the strongest people. Prisoners were tortured, starved, and slaughtered just for being Jewish. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, had to endure the atrocities at the age of 15. Wiesel describes these events in his memoir Night. A result of the dehumanization and other cruelty that he faces leads Elie Wiesel to a loss of his faith.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrible and dreaded events in history. Millions of Jews were killed, leaving many families devastated and hopeless. With the goal of racial purity, Adolf Hitler- along with many other Germans believed the Jews caused the defeat of their country, and led the Nazis to the elimination of Jews. For this reason, “Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures…as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day” (The Holocaust). Later, Hitler organized concentration camps, where mass transports of Jews from ghettoes were brought and typically killed also. However, the fortunate Jews that were not killed still had many restrictions on their

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

It was a true, real life time. When the Germans built the Ghetto, they placed 30% of Warsaw population it in 2.4% of the city (“Film”). People were very crowded in the Ghetto compared to the world they had before the Holocaust. The most they had in Ghetto the city was almost half a million (“Ghetto”) Jews. With Jews only getting little food a day they weren't playing games and having a lot of energy to make time go by. Prisoners only got about 181 calories (“Film”) a day. That is only about one cheese crisps and an apple butter a day. When people hear that they think about starvation and that is exactly what they

Elie Wiesel talks about his experiences he encountered at the concentration camps during World War II in his novel Night. Under Hitler's command, the Nazis rounded up Elie and his family. They were taken from their home town Sighet and was put into the ghetto. Then, they were put onto a train and transported to Auschwitz. Their experience in the concentration camps changed the Jews’ attitudes, personalities, and behaviors.

In the spring of 1944 so many Jews driven out of their homes, and forced into Ghettos. Beaten by the German Army treated like prisoners and sent off to concentration camps. “The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one.”(Wiesel42) This quote made me stop reading because the

The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just two of the millions of stories that exist. Their experiences in the concentration camps have many similarities as well as many differences and not only has the Holocaust left physical scars but psychological scars too, which Viktor Frankel has written a book about, being a psychologist and a Holocaust survivor.

For example, Ben sneaks out of the ghetto, and blends in with the other polish people since he has blond hair and blue eyes, to steal food for his family. The text says, “Ben soon learned tricks for sneaking out of the ghetto to find food for his family. There were holes in the wall and tunnels that led to the other side. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Ben blended in easily with the rest of the Polish population.” This shows that Ben was able to find food for his family. The next example is Ben leaves the ghetto and joins a group called the partisans, who fight against German forces. The text states, “But Ben would soon learn that he could do something after all—if he dared. Tens of thousands of people, including thousands of Jews, were fighting back against the Nazis. They were called partisans.” Furthermore, Ben decides to leave his family and the ghetto to fight against the German soldiers, which could lead to Ben getting killed if he gets caught. The last example is that Ben helps to blow up trains with weapons for the Germans. In the text it says, “Ben volunteered for dangerous missions blowing up trains that carried supplies to German troops.” This shows that not only is determined enough to escape the ghetto to find food for his family, but he is so determined to defeat the German troops that he joined the partisans, risking his own life in fighting against

Human rights and life go hand in hand as two of the most important objects in world that should never be violated or abused in any way, shape, or form. Life in the concentration camps during the events of the Holocaust that took place between 1939 - 1945, did exactly those two things to the inhabitants. In short, life in the concentration camps was so cruel and inhumane, that those who suffered the unimaginable throughout their time there should not have had to call their placement in these camps “living” because life should never be as horrid as The Nazis made it out to be.