Viktor Frankl

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

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.

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)

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

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).

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.

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.

Torture and death within concentration camps were common and frequent. Wiesel flawlessly depicts the holocaust in his memoir “Night”. Wiesel was only 15 at the time of his capture. Soldiers took him to the infamous concentration camp known as Auschwitz. The Nazis forced Wiesel, his sisters, mother, and father to go to the camp.

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

While the police made his life at home hard, the concentration camps where he was put were brutal on him. "Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat!

At some point he had not responded at all towards the cruelties happening around him. Many thought he might of had no feelings or apathy towards losing his family and friends. For example in this section when his father died he said “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...” (Night-Wiesel p.112). He almost saw his father as a burden that manacled him. Elie gave him his ration and had tried to complete his every wish even though he knew his father wouldn’t survive. But he still had this hate and kind of annoyed feeling that all this had gotten to where he took care of his father instead of his father taking care of him. Although he would randomly get this rush of emotions and realization of what he was going through, but still didn’t make it a big scene. Viktor Frankl, on the other hand, had a completely different approach and reaction towards the Holocaust. He had seen the Holocaust as a challenge from God. (Viktor- “Question of God” ) While Elie was losing his trust and faith towards God. Elie’s ways of seeing the Holocaust were at the time understandable, but to people now see it as heartless. But he has grown and has learned to make those times useful. He matured from the Holocaust going in at the age of

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,

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

After staying at the internment camp for three days, Weissmann escaped the camp. He lived from orphanage to orphanage until the Nazi occupation ended in August, 1944. He also described one of his duties at the orphanage. That duty was to clean the bucket underneath the wooden boards which was used as a public toilet. In the bucket, he discovered money which was thrown by prisoners who didn’t wanted to hand it to the commanders. He used that money for survival. He is currently living in