The World Of The Holocaust

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

When did the Holocaust begin? The holocaust began in 1933 and roughly ended in 1945. The holocaust began when Germany gave Hitler the power to rule over the because of the things he promised.

The Holocaust started in the 1933, when the Nazis and Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. The Holocaust from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned) cause chaos and tragedy for Jewish people. At this time Germany was a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000 people. Nazis thought that they were the most inferior race and no other race was better than the Aryan race. This cause a lot of discrimination and hate against other people based on their beliefs and looks. The Nazis provoked the outbreak of World War II, when they invaded Poland. The Holocaust lasted 12 years and it end it on May of 1945.

about his own experiences during the Holocaust, what he saw, the changes he noticed in himself

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.

The Holocaust was a mass slaying of groups of people which that Germany saw as inferior. This included the jews, Soviets, disabled, gay people, etc. The holocaust mostly ran from January 30, 1933 - May 8, 1945. During this time period, concentration camps were made in most of Europe, mostly the nazi occupied territory. These camps

The Holocaust began around 1933 when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party. During that time, the first concentration camp, Dachau, was established to torture and kill Jewish people. Soon after, in 1935, Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews were decreed and depriving Jews of German citizenship. Germany then invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe. With the start of World War II came many more concentration camps, and millions of deaths. Six million European Jews lost their lives during this horrific time. Many survivors shared their stories after they were freed, so that the world would know of the horrors they experienced. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, told his story in his book, Night. Elie Wiesel was a teenager during the Holocaust, but lived on into his eighties and continued to speak out against what the Nazi’s did to his family.

There are many records of first person experiences in the Holocaust that show what it was like to live during the time period, and most records are the victims; telling their story. During the Holocaust, about 6 million jews were killed. A spectator witnessing this horrendous brutality was Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was born in Transilvania and was sent to a death camp when he was around 15. He witnessed horrible things and wrote a book about his experiences in 3 Austwitz death camps. The plot of his memoir,”Night” follows him through his life in the death camps with his father and how they stay together until the enevitable death of his weak and ailing father. A big part of the memoir is how their relationship changes throughout the story.

The Holocaust was a very terrible time in history over six million Jews perished in concentration camps. Even though in every tragedy there are survivors. Elie Wiesel was a little boy when all of this happened. He experienced all of the terrible things that happened during this time frame. While suffering in the terrible condition of the camp Elie and his father’s relationship goes through a drastic change.

The Horrifying event all started when Germany appointed Adolph Hitler as their leader. The Holocaust began January 30, 1933 and lasted through May 8, 1945 (History 1). The Holocaust affected numerous of Jews and killed approximately 6 million (History 1). To blame for this uncivil act is Hitler and also the Nazis. The Holocaust was a very traumatic event that was a big reality check on how cruel humans can be to each other.

The author name is Elie Wiesel and wrote the famous poem “Never Shall I Forget”. His poem shows how people can be overwhelmed and lose their faith in the holocaust. Wiesel uses a lot of hyperbole: “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and turned my soul and dreams into ashes” (Wiesel 6). Wiesel was exaggerating how it felt at the time of the inhuman activity and he couldn’t do anything. He began to lose his faith at the time because how his god would let this horrific disaster

Imagine being lost in a store when you were younger, and not being able to find your parents. During the holocaust, this is what happened to many people, but it was far more drastic. Hitler was the dictator of Germany and separating and killing people, fast. This was happening to people everywhere, all the time. Not everyone went through the same thing, though. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about his experiences, and Yitskhok wrote in his diary that was later found about what he went through. These are just two documented reports of the holocaust. Elie Wiesel of Night, and Yitskhok of his diary went through some similar experiences of the holocaust, as well as some different experiences that changed them.

The point of view of a surviving holocaust victim is essential to the realization of the severity of the holocaust. Elie is one of those who has survived the holocaust. Within the book Night Mr. Wiesel does an amazing job at describing his experiences to his readers. Mr. Wiesel tell his readers how the SS officers treated the victims. He wrote about how the SS officers beat and killed anyone who was defiant. Mr. Wiesel also writes about the Jews that had been killed. He wrote about the reasons the Jews were killed or die. Like starvation or being killed for not being strong enough to work. Elie Wiesel wrote a lot about his experience. I find that to be brave do to the amount of detail he put into it and have it think of

Although Samuel Steinberg’s experiences in the Holocaust may seem very similar to Elie Wiesel’s experiences, I contend that their experiences were also very different in the hardships they experienced, different camps, and family members lost. I looked at the testimonies of two different people, Elie Wiesel through the book Night and Samuel Steinberg’s through a video testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation.

Between 1933 and 1945, 11 million people were murdered in the Holocaust, of this six million were Jews and of this, 1.1 million were children. Of the nine million Jews who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, an estimated 2/3 were murdered. Despite all these odds and statistics, Vladek Spiegelman managed to survive, and then share his story with his son, so he could share their story with the world. Another reason that Vladek Spiegelman is a good subject to write a biography on is, his personality. He seems to have to sides to him, Vladek Spiegelman before war and Vladek Spiegelman post - war. We get to see the impact and affect the Holocaust had on it’s victims, with our own eyes. Moreover, Vladek Spiegelman is an inspiration and a reminder of the potential dark side to human nature. Thus, writing a biography on Mr. Spiegelman is informative, moving and above all, inspirational.