When I read, I prefer to read books with a lot of surprising events occurring that will keep me interested. For the most part, this book did. In this book, The Dentist of Auschwitz, a man by the name of Bronek Jakubowicz, who was also the author, tells how he lived through and survived the holocaust. He faces things no human should have to go through. He witnessed only abuse and death for around 5 years. Bronek was a Jew, just like almost everyone else put in camp with him. Bronek was from Poland, just like most of his fellow inmates. But one thing that made him different and was the reason he survived was that he was a dentist. In Jewish concentration camps, many of the people in the camp including the Nazi officers would have problems with …show more content…
Bronek Jakubowicz, now Benjamin Jacobs, told just how bad the Nazi’s treated the Jews. He never hesitated to go into full detail just how sick they were. This book really made me thankful for the freedom, home, and life I have. Even though this whole book was only about how bad Jews were treated, I was still pleased with how it ended. It was a true blessing that he survived those tragic years and was able to tell about it. I was shocked at just the living conditions for the Jews not to mention they were killed for any minor errors. I was also shocked that even one Jew survived through this war. I know for sure I would not have …show more content…
Reason being is because they showed just how bad off the Jews were. The first sentence that I read and thought a lot about was, “Look at you. You look like a Mussulman. You are in no shape to be a dentist.” This quote was one of the most important quotes to me because it meant that Bronek was so skinny and dirty, he looked dead. A mussulman was what they called the prisoners that were about to die and you could tell. Another quote that stuck out to me was, “Although minorities were treated fairly, Jews were made an exception. In the late 1930’s in Poland, those who had previously sat on the fence joined Hitler in the Nazi’s racial policy. Even though we were born there, we were considered foreigners.” This quote may not seem like it means much, but it really did to me. This quote meant a lot to me because even though they had been born and raised in Poland, they were not really accepted and were treated like an unknown race. One more quote that stood out to me was, “I left with a heavy heart full of painful memories. I had revisited a nightmare.” This quote was important to me because it tells how it was still depressing and sad to visit the old site where he had been held prisoner. This shows just how bad they were
Intro: This book is about a Jewish boy named Yanek. This gives an inside look of what happened to Jewish people in the 1940s. He had a very hard life in the 6 year time duration he spent in the ghetto and concentration camps.
Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklós NyiszlI is a non-fiction memoir of a Jewish Hungarian medical doctor who performed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. This book is a lot to swallow and doesn’t beat around the bush, it’s straight to the point.
Chapters 3 to 5 express the many pains that all Jewish people alike were subjected to. Many’s perspectives, moralities, etc changed, but what was the Germans to gain for this? Did this benefit their agenda at all? In chapter 3 of Night, by Elie Wiesel, many Jewish people are stripped of their humanities through the processes of assigning numbers in place of names, shaving off body hair, removing gold dental work, and wearing the same clothing in concentration camps.
The Holocaust was a tragic and fatal experience that many Jews suffered from during World War II. The most famous survivor, Elie Wiesel writes about his experiences in his memoir Night. Elie is tortured, starved dehydrated, and beaten. Trauma like this transforms people. Elie’s experiences in Auschwitz also altered his relationship with God and his father.
The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and hopelessness for Jewish people. About two thirds of the entire Jewish population was brutally killed. One third of all Jews persevered and survived the appalling events happening in and out of the concentration camps. One boy, out of that one third that survived and pushed through was Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel, the holocaust survivor, displays stamina in his memoir physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust and an author, was put in Auschwitz with his family which consisted of his father, Shlomo Wiesel, his mom,Sarah feig, and his little sister,Tzipora wiesel.Adolf Hitler was behind the concentration camps and world war two, he was the leader of the SS officers and the germans. He was put in the camp in 1944 and was liberated by the russians in April 11th,1945.The book Night shows how the SS officers broke the jews and installed fear and hopelessness in them. “Night” also shows how Elie was dehumanized from a young and religious jewish boy to a blank, walking corpse by the end of the liberation. We ,as readers , see these acts of dehumanization throughout the book many times, but these three are the main
In the book Escape Children of the Holocaust I learned about how important the Jewish legacy is, how difficult the holocaust was on Jewish children and families and how brave Hanci, Halina and Gideon were. I hope the Jewish legacy goes on forever; you can tell they lived a long hard life and they need an ovation. The book gave me a very accurate account, in my opinion, of the Holocaust. It showed me how the Jews lived during the Holocaust in an actual first person perspective. I admire Hanci for her bravery and endurance to hide in the snow while Nazis searched for
This book was effective and achieved the purpose of describing the Holocaust in a personal and relative manner. I do not think anyone who reads this book does not finish it with a better understanding of what the victims of concentration camps experienced. This book
Dear Mr. Wiesel, I have read your book ‘Night’ and I really like it. In fact, it's shed more light on things I didn't know about the Holocaust. I never fully grasped what people could actually go through and how much hurt they could go through before they break. You didn't break tho, you were able to stay strong and not let anything get to you. You may have changed while you were in that camp, Mr. Wiesel but most people wouldn't have made it out if they went through that today so in my eyes you are a hero, if you wouldn't have been strong I wouldn't have read this story and I wouldn't know how strong I have to be to get through life. If you can live through that I can live through anything, so thank you. I'm so very sorry that you went through
Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.
The average person’s understanding of the Holocaust is the persecution and mass murder of Jews by the Nazi’s, most are unaware that the people behind the atrocities of the Holocaust came from all over Europe and a wide variety of backgrounds. Art Spiegelman’s Maus: a Survivor’s Tale, Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution, and Jan Gross’s Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedbwabne, Poland, all provides a different perspective on how ordinary people felt about their experiences in the Holocaust both perpetrators and victims.
One of the many important and most memorable incidents of World War Two would be the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Germans who were known as the Nazis, considered the Jews to be “enemy aliens”. As part of this, the Nazis thought that “Aryans” were a master race. Therefore, they decided to destroy the Jewish race, and created genocide. The Jews were put into unbearable torture at many concentration and death camps. In fact, 6 million Jews were killed in this incident; however, there were many victims who survived this anguish. One of the many survivors was Simon Wiesenthal, who survived the Nazi death camps and began his career as a Nazi hunter.
In the past many horrific events have happened that many people choose not to believe. One of those events was the Holocaust. Millions of innocent people died during this tragedy, but what about the people who survived? How did this affect them? A survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote about his experience during the Holocaust, and how it changed him as a person. In his book “Night”, the main character Elie went to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Throughout the story, he gained new character traits that he carried for the rest of his life.
Overall, the film did exactly what any good dramatic film would do and that is make the audience feel something. The tragedy of the Holocaust has never been fictionally depicted from a German child’s view until this movie. The depiction of how a child who is protected from certain elements war might have thought in that era makes this film unique. The unbelievable conclusion is what makes this film unforgettable. The most important scene in the film is the ending, when Bruno
Dentistry has a long and complex history, with the earliest evidence of it being performed being dated back to 7000 B.C. from the Indus River Valley Civilization. Later, an ancient Sumerian text mentioned “tooth worms” around 5000 B.C., and from 2900 - 2700 B.C,Egyptians began drilling teeth to drain abscesses. Etruscan and Greek physicians further progressed dentistry by pioneering dental prosthetics and writing texts that contained information about dentistry. The Roman Empire later conquered the Etruscans and absorbed some of their culture, including dentistry. In fact, the Roman medical writer Celsus wrote on many topics pertaining to dentistry. In Asia, although the Chinese did use silver amalgam fillings as early as 200 B.C., a proclamation from the Qu’ran that prohibited body mutilation prevented the advancement of dental surgery for many years. The first book to focus solely on dentistry, Little Medicinal Book for All Kinds of Diseases and Infirmities of the Teeth by Artzney Buchlein was published in Germany in 1530. Known European dental achievements were mostly French and English in the 16th and 17th century, with James Hunter, an English surgeon, pioneering the idea of teeth transplant. When the English began settling the United States, many of them brought along their dental practices. Notable American dentists during the colonial period include Isaac and John Greenwood and Paul Revere. In the 19th century, America was a hotbed for dentistry related