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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....” –Elie Wiesel expressed shortly after his harsh experience with the Holocaust. As many read through Elie’s book Night, they recognize what Elie fought through while he was staying in the Concentration Camps. People have realized the brutal conditions that the he had gone through and have came to the thought of how it effected his future and what he has done ever since the horrible Holocaust.

“The War Against The Jews” by Lucy Dawidowicz explores a very dark time in history and interprets it from her view. Through the use of other novels, she concurs and agrees to form her opinion. This essay will explore who Dawidowicz is, why she wrote the book, what the book is about, what other authors have explored with the same topic, and how I feel about the topic she wrote about. All in all, much research will be presented throughout the essay. In the end you will see how strongly I feel about the topic I chose. I believe that although Hitler terrorized the Jews, they continued to be stronger than ever, and tried to keep up their society.

Dzungar, Holodomor, Rwandan, Cambodians, Armenians, Circassian, Ottoman Greek, and the Jewish. All too many genocides. When will it stop? When will we learn? When will we stop forgetting about the past and when will the history books end the patterns of war and death? When? The survivors share their stories, but do we listen? Elie Wiesel was a fifteen year old boy with the a life ahead of him, when his religion, following Judaism, made him a target in Adolf Hitler's extermination plans. He was only a boy. He had done nothing wrong, absolutely nothing, yet his life had been ended before it began. From Auschwitz to Birkenau to Buna to Gleiwitz and Gleiwitz to Buchenwald. Wiesel endured separation and starvation, to survive the brutality of the Jewish Holocaust that left millions of others dead. Individuals with lives, with hopes, with dreams, suffering with no end, and losing everything upon survival. Adults, children, elderly, everyone one of them innocent. As individuals living without these threats we cannot empathize for the horror stories we hear, since we have no personal connection, we can only sympathize for them. With no personal connection to the events, it is sure that we will forget Wiesel, but why do we forget? Because humans are imperfect beings? How do we stop erring and forget the mistakes that have preceded us? Humans struggle to understand that the mistakes of one individual do not define those similar to them. If human can attempt to

Elie Wiesel was a Jewish American born in Romania. His principles were influenced by being raised in a heavily religious and liberal family. In the 1940s, his own country forced his family to flee to the ghettos, and not long after, Wiesel, “a young Jewish boy from a small town,” was captured by Nazis, waking up to the perilous realization of “eternal infamy”(Wiesel). In April 1945, after enduring through starvation and punishment, he was finally liberated.

I was born on February 1, 1932. Eleven months before Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and fourteen months before the first Nazi concentration camp opened up. On my ninth birthday the German authorities started to round up all Polish Jews and send them to either the Warsaw Ghetto or concentration camps. The full effects of the Holocaust and World War II didn’t start to affect me until I was in the first grade.

Who is Elie Wiesel ? Elie Wiesel  was a holocaust survivor. He struggled during the holocaust, but he managed to fight threw. He survived during this horrible time period where everyone kept silent. Many times he thought to himself that he was not going to survive the days would get worse for him. The Nazis would treat them horrible they also lived in horrible  conditions.  Him and the other men and children there would only get a little portion of foods. Many of them would starve and some would share between them some food they would

You wake up from your crowded bunk. You drink some watered down coffee. As you work, you smell the scent of burning flesh. You work hard but your stomach aches from hunger. You work some more, get very little lunch, then go back to work. You then eat dinner, get tallied that you survived another day, then go back to work. Finally, after a long day of work you go to bed to repeat this whole day tomorrow. A-7713 permanently printed on his arm as his name. Eliezer, more commonly named Elie Wiesel is a proud survivor of the Holocaust. He was taken from a ghetto as a child to go to a concentration camp named Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel was greatly influenced as a person from the concentration camp.

“I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer--or my life, period-- would not become what it is: that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory” (Wiesel, Night viii). As a result of the horrors that Elie Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, he devoted his life to become meaningful. Wiesel’s decent disposition changes through atrociously inhumane conduct toward Jews during the Holocaust as he becomes a brute to solidify identity, levy fears, and boost morale.

The Holocaust was a tragic event that involved the murder of millions of Jews from the years 1938 to 1945. Elie Wiesel was a victim to this, being a Jew himself. The book he wrote, Night, tells his story and how he survived, changed, and adapted to being put into labor camps and forced to work and was starved. Elie was forced to work for nearly four years in these camps surrounded by hundreds of other enslaved Jews. His experience was the definition of trauma. The traumatic experience altered his relationship with his father and emotionally changed him.

Such a heinous event that has marked the world and the Jewish religion, Eliezer Wiesel as a young man recalls the story of the horrid occurrences that he went through in the concentration camps. He has been able to express throughout the book changes in himself, changes in his faith, and changes in his decisions as he went through the course

During the holocaust, many Jews were persecuted, killed and tortured because of their religion and it kept happening for years, but sadly no one ever did anything about it and millions of lives were lost. Mr. Elie Wiesel was one of the brave survivors of such a horrid event. He had hope that someone, anyone would come with help and him and his family would get to go home safely. However, during this period of time, believes were different and the people had less rights, therefore they couldn't

Although many people have written about The Holocaust, Few have done so with the eloquence of Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust was the period between 1933 and 1945 when Nazi Germany persecuted and systematically million murderer of Jews and other innocent people. His works speak of the need for people to feel compassion for their fellow human beings. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small town in Romania who had been a sanctuary for Jews since they were driven south out of Ukraine in 1640. He was the third of four children and the only son born to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel Feig. Wiesel had three sisters, Hilda and Batya were younger than him and Tzipora was younger. Education is very important for the family. The region was an important part

In 1983 Aharon Appelfeld published a work of fiction titled Tzili that closely resembled his own personal Holocaust experiences. This work of fiction revolves around a maturing teen who is alone and on the run during the Holocaust. In Tzili, Appelfeld brings to life his characters, which include Tzili, Katrina, Mark, and Linda. Throughout this literary analysis Appelfelds’ memoir Story of a Life will be used to access the parallels that exist between Appelfeld’s own personal experience and his fictional work Tzili.

Anti-semitism is a concept that has been around in our society for a few centuries now, and has played a significant role in the world for many of those years. Although we see anti-semitism fade and diminish, its historical symbolism will hover over society for years to come. The Holocaust, taken place in Eastern Europe, is known to be one of the largest genocides this world has ever seen, and is the gruesome platform that people relate to anti-semitism. The Holocaust was in reaction to the successes of the Jewish population and the conspiracy of Zionism. Moreover, the alliance that Nazis had established with Zionists and how they were able to collaborate in order to accomplish the alienation and extermination of European Jews. This genocide affected numerous Jewish families, leading to many fatalities and a crackdown on the discipline of all Nazi soldiers.

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg once stated, “Nobody is in the process of making any change that we can be specific about” (). Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg a man that had great influence on the Jewish community and an activist for civil rights. Rabbi Herzberg was born on June 9th 1921 in Lubaczow, Poland (). In 1926 Herzberg's family moved to Pennsylvania, ten years before Poland was invaded by the Nazis. During Herzberg's teen years he followed the path every family member took and went to Belz Hasidim to become a Rabbi. However Rabbi Hertzberg did not only study to become a Rabbi, he went to John Hopkins University to receive a degree in History and Oriental Language. In 1943, Rabbi Hertzberg wanted to study further in Jewish Theology and go back to Poland to study but he could not go to Poland because the Nazis had invaded Poland.