Viktor Frankl

Document-Based Question: The Camps In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, he recalls an incident when Elie and his family were in the cattle cars being transported to their first three concentration camps after being unreasonably taken from their homes. There was barely any food or water, they were forced to stand the whole time because there wasn't enough room for sitting, and they were cramped up for hours on end in the concentration camp (pages 22-24). Elie Wiesel was a little boy with his family. Nazis transferred them to the Ghettos and eventually put them on a train to concentration camps where most of the families would end up passing away.

Work at labor camps was hard and endearing. Labor camps did not change the overall plan of death, but was just temporary setback in the exterminating process. Many children died. Victor was a strong and healthy, fifteen year old. He was chosen to work at a labor camp instead of immediate death like his family. (Victor Rona) During his life he was sent to four different slave labor camps. He was in the system from June 1944 until April 1945. (Victor Rona) Victor survived the horrors and the brutalness of the camps, miraculously. Victor was “liberated April 1945”. (Victor Rona) Then five days later he died of a bayonet wound in his left arm. He received this wound in a “labor camp two weeks earlier and had no medical attention”. (Victor Rona) Victor was sixteen when he died. He was one of the many Jewish children to lose everything because of the Germans. (Victor Rona)

After the concentration camps, he was able to push past the cruelty to live through it all.

He was once kind, thoughtful, and caring of others. But, as his sufferings increased, he becomes heartless, filled with hate, and begins to abandon all that he once held dear. He stops praying early during his imprisonment, and in general becomes selfish. His only concern is himself, and how he is going to eat and survive until the next day. Once concerned about others, he is now focused on himself. Wiesel also feels “free” when his father dies, presumably because he no longer has to look out for or take care of anyone but himself. Wiesel also details another example of changing behavior in the camp, as he tells the story of a son who killed his father simply for a piece of stale bread. These and other behavioral changes describe the kind of environment Wiesel and others were exposed to in the

Walter Rosenberg, who later changed his name to Rudolf Vrba, was 15 when he was locked out his school because he was Jewish. Walter Rosenberg then went on to work in a factory until 1942, where he was arrested and sent to the concentration camp of Maidanek. He later was sent to Auschwitz. He managed to escape the camp by hiding under a pile of wood until the

While imprisoned, he and other Holocaust victims witness appalling scenes and are given the choice of work or death. Eventually, after months of persecution,

At this point, he was already at the concentration camp and this was towards the beginning. “The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain”(Wiesel 36). All of these things are breaking human rights, and this was not acceptable at all and needed to be stopped. The Hungarian police expelled all the foreign Jews from the Sighet. Sighet is a place in Hungary where the Jews lived.

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 concentration camp forced him to learn to think about himself “I had watched it all happening without moving I kept silent… that was what life in a concentration camp has made of me” (Wiesel 54). He became self-centered and determined to survive. He survived because he had to for his father, but it was only after his father died that he truly lived. He only thought of food and surviving “I spent my day in total idleness… I no longer thought of my father, or my mother” (Wiesel 113). When people go through any trauma they change, life changes people for either the better or for the

His mother and younger sister were killed in a gas chamber there (Nobelprize.org). Wiesel lived with his Sholomo in Auschwitz as forced laborers. They had no choice but to work for the Germans every day, for nothing (Bos, Carol).

He spent a little less than year in the concentration camp

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.

Faith is confidence or trust in an otherworldly being, person, thing or an obligation of loyalty. Before the Holocaust the Jewish communities throughout Europe continued to practice their faith and their faith in humanity as well. When the Holocaust took its grasp on the world, it broke down people and simultaneously made people stronger. The effect of this on the Jewish Communities differed from community to community, but the overall fact of it all was that some took it on themselves as a way to strengthen their overall faith in god and inhumanity and be optimistic while others took upon themselves to become pessimistic and let that slowly diminish their faith. In the memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel, Elie had lost complete faith, in himself,

Frankl endured much suffering during his time in the concentration camp. All of his possessions were taken away, including his manuscript in which he recorded all of his life's work. He went through rough manual labor, marching through freezing temperatures, and little or no

While being held prisoner in the death camps, Frankl began to observe his fellow inmates. He payed close attention to