Yanek Gruener

The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.

Concentration camps are similar to the things people see their nightmares. The creation of a twisted government that spread hatred and suffering throughout the world. Night is an in depth account of the atrocities committed in these horrible places. The story of dehumanization of an entire group of people through the eyes of a young boy,Elie Wiesel. In Night Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of the jewish people as unnatural and undeserved. The difficulties Wiesel went through are all collected in one small book

Prisoner B-3087 was an intense story about a ten-year old boys will to survive during World War Ⅱ. Throughout the story we are brought through ghettos, concentration camps, death marches, and work camps that are all made up with the intention of wiping out the population of Jews. Each place he ends up is worse than the last they have less food, stricter staff, and harder work. The only way to survive is to work and be invisible because if you stand out you are a threat and you will be killed. Yanek, the ten-year old boy who tells this story is surrounded by death. His entire family is wiped out by the Nazis, but he must survive, he will not let them take his life. He succeeds with much determination and follows his dreams to america where

caracter Yanek is a young 10 year old boy. Yanek Gruener was a jew, and Hitler was telling Germans that jews were the reason about all the problems that were going on at that time. Yanek Gruener was having a happy life until the Natiz came and invaded Germany. Yanek and all the other jews were banned from school, stores, libraries, and more. Yanek had to stop going to school because he wasn't allowed.

The Nazis kill and Harangue the prisoners causing this to make them depressed. The Jews are fed from cauldron that is somewhat filled with food. So the Jews have to ration their food. Prisoners would traffic with officers to buy food. The Jews who barely got fed where emaciated Then there are Hangings that are from gallowls.

Intro: This book is about a Jewish boy named Yanek. This gives an inside look of what happened to Jewish people in the 1940s. He had a very hard life in the 6 year time duration he spent in the ghetto and concentration camps.

While some managed to escape and go into hiding, others were captured and sent to labor camps. While a large quantity of Jews were killed upon arrival, others were evaluated and sent to work. The Jews were starved, beaten, or killed and set on fire to make space for more Jews. All of their valuables had been taken away from them for the Nazi’s greed. They were put in blue striped Joseph Mandrowitz spoke of his journey while travelling to Auschwitz,

The date is April 11, 1945. A 17 year old boy looks towards the ominous gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp after nearly two years of misery and sees his first sign of hope: an American tank standing at the entrance of the gates. This young boy was Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the gruesome events that occurred in concentration camps during WWII. Elie shares a chilling memoir about his experience in his book Night. Throughout the novel, Elie and other Jewish inmates constantly used their families as their primary motive to overcome hardships even while being challenged by tough circumstances.

On the day of Yaneks’ Bar Mitzvah, the day that he was going to enter adulthood, he and his family were hiding in a pigeon coop on the roof of their appartment afraid of being caught by the Nazi’s.

What would it do to a person to go to a concentration camp, see the horrible things, and come out alive? This book, Night, is about Eliezer Wiesel, who is both the main character and the author. Elie’s book is a memorial about his experience in Hitler’s concentration camps, what he went through, and how he survived. This paper is going to be about Eliezer’s horrific experience and the ways that it changed him.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

Secondly, the Nazis treated the Jews like animals rather than humans at the concentration camps. To start, they were herded around from place to place just like animals are. The book said that the prisoners from the different blocks were forced to fall into ranks and were forced to march and run to another concentration camp, and the SS (Schutzstaffel) made sure they kept going and sustained the pace. If they failed to do that, someone from the SS shot them (Wiesel 84-85). The Jews were basically herded to another concentration camp, just like animals are herded from one pasture to another. Next, the prisoners were also treated like animals because they got little food and did what they need to in order to survive. The text states, “In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling themselves

According to Hilberg, concentration entailed the segregation of the Jewish community from the rest of the population. Their economic ties would as well be cut or restricted. Concentration entailed the containment of the Jews in special houses where they lived in poor conditions to prove to them that they had been subordinated. The concentration was also another tool used to engage them in forced labor leaving them under the control of the Nazi who controlled the manner in which food would get into the concentration camps. Completely cut off from the society and without money, the Jews were now defenseless and at the mercy of the Nazis. Spiegelman account had it that the Jewish prisoners would be forced to live in tents in the autumn cold weather feeding on crusts of bread. The Polish prisoners were better placed in heated cabins and were assured of two meals per day. Vladek had been put in the concentration camp after killing a German soldier whom he was forced to carry for burial. Although it was cold, Vladek would go to the river to bathe as a control measure to the lice that were making the life at the camps to be difficult. Vladek was, however, hopeful that he would leave the camp that was characterized with forced hard labor that could be equated to flattening mountains. In a dream, he dreamt with his grandfather who told him there could be chances of getting released in the day

As the Soviet Union made their way for the camp, the camp began to evacuate its three main camps and 44 subcamps. “SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system” (“Auschwitz,” n.d.). Prisoners were transported to Germany concentration camps. The travels to these camps were unbearable, and many prisoners lost their lives during the travel or were killed if they could not keep up during the marches. These marches are often referred to as “The Death Marches.” “On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered [Auschwitz-Birkenau camps] and liberated around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom were ill and dying” (“Auschwitz,” n.d.).

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the