The Holocaust, sometimes is referred as the Shoah, was a terrible event in the world’s history. The word Holocaust is from the Greek holo “whole” plus kaustus “burnt.” It refers to an animal sacrifice in which the entire animal is burned. The word Shoah is Hebrew for “destruction.” It started January 1933, whenever Hitler came to power. Over six million jews were killed by the Nazis during this time period. The Jews were forced into prison camps and they were made to do hard labor work. Young children would be targeted particularly, the Nazis thought if they grew up they would parent a new generation of Jews. Before all this, they were forced to live in ghettos, and in the larger ghettos over one thousand Jews would be picked up and taken by train to a concentration camp. Between 1933 and 1945, 11 million men, women, and children were killed during the holocaust, approximately six million of these people were Jews. Over one million people were killed at the Auschwitz complex, this was more than any other place. The Auschwitz complex consisted of three large camps, Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz. The testimonies of some Jews who went through the Holocaust were put in a book, for example you have the Diary of Anne Frank. Comparisons can be drawn between Night and Maus through author’s purpose, symbolism, and portrayal of religion. The books Maus and Night were written by authors with two different ways of expressing their story, but the stories told some of the same things, just in a different perspective. The main difference between the two books was, Maus was a graphic novel, similar to a comic book and Night was a regular novel. The book Maus was written by Art Spiegelman, he’s son of Vladek Spiegelman who is a Holocaust survivor. He told his father, “I still want to write that book about you… The one I used to talk about… about your life in Poland and after the war.”(Spiegelman, 12) Spiegelman wanted to write about his father’s life because he believed the world should hear about it. He also wanted his father to tell him more about his ex-wife Anja, who was also Art’s mother. Elie Wiesel wrote his book Night to remind people of the harm done to the Jews and all the other races during the Holocaust. He
The Holocaust was a traumatic event that most people can’t even wrap their minds around. Libraries are filled with books about the Holocaust because people are both fascinated and horrified to learn the details of what survivors went through. Maus by Art Spiegelman and Night by Elie Wiesel are two highly praised Holocaust books that illustrate the horrors of the Holocaust. Night is a traditional narrative that mainly focuses on Elie’s experiences throughout the holocaust while Maus is a comic book that focuses on the relationship between Art and his father and the generational trauma Art is going through as well as his father’s experiences during the Holocaust. Night and Maus are very different styles of
Elie Wiesel (Night) and Art Spiegelman (Maus) have both written great books about the holocaust. Night is a personal experience Elie was in the holocaust. Everything in his book was what he saw and what truly happened. Whereas in Maus Art’s dad is where the story comes from. Art’s father Vladeck was older than Elie when he got to the holocaust and got there a little later to. Both of the stories start off before anything happened and all that they knew what was happening was the war they didn’t know about the holocaust.
The book, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is about the Holocaust. The Holocaust took place in Europe but specifically in Germany, between the 1930s and 1940s. Adolf HItler was the leader of that time. The Nazi party and Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate all jews, because they believed jews were the reason they lost WW1. They also believed in anti-semitism. They murdered over six million jews, but before the Holocaust was over, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
The Holocaust was a system established by the Nazis in World War II as a means to exterminate all of the people which they considered undesirable or subhuman. This included gypsies,minorities,cripples, the mentally ill, homosexuals,communists,and anyone who opposed the Nazi regime. The main target of the Holocaust was however the Jewish people. They were the main target because the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, believed that they were the reason for Germany losing World War 1 and thus was the reason that the German economy was in a bad state. Vladek Spiegelman and Elie Weisel were to people who were both survived their experiences in the Holocaust and both told their story in books. These books are Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Vladek Spiegelman.The Holocaust shaped these two different men's lives in the same way. Through their losses and experiences in this horrific point in time they learned what it meant to truly struggle and this ultimately turned them into better people.
“The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy but also a human tragedy,” (Wiesenthal). The Holocaust was all-around a dark patch in history. It was something that although it took a toll on lots of people throughout the world, and the Holocaust had the biggest impact for those being Jewish and living in Europe. There have been many films, movies, and books depicting life during the Holocaust. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, who was a victim of the Holocaust growing up as a Jewish boy and has as a result gone to numerous concentration camps. In Night, he describes a time period of his life which revolved around the Holocaust. Where his family, identity, and innocence were lost in a very cruel way. Elie Wiesel through his use of tone
In the book “night” written by Elie Wiesel, the reader is able to catch a glimpse of the holocaust and how it dangerously impacted not only the Jewish, but the whole world. Written for everyone and anyone, “Night” is an emotionally draining book designed to help the reader understand just how devastating the holocaust was.
The Holocaust was a time of death. It was initiated by Adolf Hitler and his German army and was the mass genocide that killed over six million Jews. Among those were women and children being sent to death right away, the others were then “selected”, Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky ones. He was a survivor who lived to tell about his experience in the death camps. Elie Wiesel wrote the book ‘Night’ because he felt it was his duty and responsibility to show readers what really happened during the Holocaust. His writing style effectively develops his point of view so he is able to convey a compelling story-his story.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about the Holocaust, that goes through step by step of the traumatic experiences of Elie Wiesel’s life. Holocaust is a word meaning to sacrifice by fire. It started when the Nazis came to power in january 1933. The Holocaust was a gruesome, brutal, and vicious state-sponsored oppression and killing of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Nazis, believed they were rationally superior and the Jews were inferior which cause the murder of millions of people. Since Wiesel’s experiences in the Holocaust were unimaginable, Elie lost his faith in God, himself, and humanity all together.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that "During the Holocaust up to 6 million Jews were rounded up and killed"(Documenting numbers). The Holocaust had many groups of people involved, Adalf Hitler, the Germans, European Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. The Holocaust was when the Germans believed they were a master Aryan race and wanted to get rid of everyone who wasn’t. It took place in all of Europe and lasted from 1933-1945.Through a variety of texts, people can learn more about the Holocaust. The book Night is an autobiography of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the poem "To The Little Polish Boy" is about a bystander to the Holocaust. These texts made me realize how much the Nazi's changed the views and ways of life of all the people they prosecuted.
The Holocaust is a horrific genocide that took the lives of 11 million people. In 1933, the Jewish population stood at over nine million. By 1945, the Germans had killed nearly 2 out of every 3 European Jews. One of the few survivors, Elie Wiesel, was able to create a memoir called “Night” about his trying times at the camps. In the story, a young jewish boy and his family get ripped from their home in Sighet and sent to horrendous concentration camps where most people's lives come to an end. During their time at the concentration camps, Elie, his father, and his fellow Jews are atrociously dehumanized by being starved, put through unrealistic amounts of physical activity, and having their identities revoked.
The Holocaust lasted from 1933-1945, when the Nazi army used the Jewish people as a scapegoat and persuaded parts of Europe that they were responsible for all the issues being faced at that time. Hundreds of thousands of Jews, and other groups of people, were thrown into forced labor camps called concentration camps. The majority of those who were in the camps did not live to see liberation. The stories of the survivors are indispensable resources to completely understand the heinous events during the Holocaust. The overall feeling of emptiness is extremely evident in the book Night.
The Holocaust was a tragic time in the mid 1900s of Germany and other parts of Europe in which up to six million Jews died. At this time, Jews in the residential areas of these places were deported to ghettos and concentration camps, where they suffered tremendous physical pain and were left mentally destroyed. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, it tells of the real experiences that he faced during the terrible years of the Holocaust and how it affected him. The theme, faith, impacts Elie by diminishing over time.
There are very few books and stories left from the holocaust nowadays due to the fact that many did not survive through the holocaust and most of those that did are no longer alive. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about his times in the concentration camps throughout the time period of the holocaust. He accounts his experiences of the holocaust from the rights of the Jewish community were taken away to the train rides to being in the concentration camps to being liberated in 1945. Throughout the story, there are a lot of deaths. Death is a very pervasive theme in this story and makes the story very emotional. In Night Elie Wiesel makes the theme of death the most impactful in the story.
The Holocaust is one of the major tragic events that we are taught as a part of history. The Holocaust and all other anguishes of certain groups of people that have taken the time to impose on others, this opens the door for the dispute that religious faith is unsustainable. Religion is something that one holds near and dear to them. It is even a part of them, their personality, their overall being. They look to their religion when things go wrong and praise their religion when things go right. With that being said, it is not hard for religion to be questioned when things go awry.
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