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    once said, “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example” (“Auschwitz concentration camps”“). Throughout the Holocaust millions died. The Jews were put into ghetto’s before being boarded to concentration camps. Concentration camps were cruel and killed large sums of people. The ghettos were cramped and didn’t range very far, and possessed Horribly living conditions. The Holocaust was a gigantic slaughter

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    The Holocaust was an extremely difficult time for anyone that went into a concentration camp, and family can become one of the most important aspects of life when staying in one. Elie Wiesel delineates the events he experiences during his time with his father in the multiple concentration camps he travels to. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel portrays the recurring theme importance of family throughout certain characters in the story. Through the characters: Shlomo, Stein, and Elie, Wiesel shows

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    Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir that recounts his personal journey through the concentration camps of WWII. The cruel nature of the concentration camps would completely isolate a person and break away at everything that makes them themselves. The one constant in Elie's story is his father, even though their relationship changes dramatically. At the beginning of the story, Elie and his father have an average father-son relationship. Elie looks up to his father and holds much respect for his father

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    In "Man's Search for Meaning," Victor Frankl describes lessons for spiritual revival and his personal experiences inside the Nazi concentration camps. Frankl disagreed with Freud, a philosopher who believed that life is a quest for power, and Alfred Adler, who believed that life is a quest for power; instead, Frankl agreed with Nietzsche who stated that "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How." (Page IX.) The three most significant factors that Victor Frankl wrote about that gave life

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    informed the readers about the conditions of concentration camps and the horrible treatment of Nazi’s towards Jews and many others. Throughout his time moving from one camp to another, Elie experienced many events that changed him forever. Beginning the story as a fifteen-year-old boy, Elie changes emotionally, mentally, and physically because of the Holocaust. Because Elie was still very young when he and his family were moved to a concentration camp, he relied on his father a lot in the beginning

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    Anne Frank Jewish people were being taken to concentration camps. Anne and her family were jews and had to go into hiding. They hid in a secret annex above her father’s office. The Frank family was later joined with four other people. With eight people in the annex it quickly became crowded. The residents of the annex had several people that risked their lives to help them. They were in hiding for two years, until they were found. After being found, what happened to the members of the annex? Who

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    the aftermath was equally devastating. The systematic mass murder of marginalized groups during World War 2 is an event that can never be forgotten. Under Hitler’s command, many concentration camps were built on European soil and were meant to get rid of unwanted groups of people. Although the conditions of these camps seemed unable to sustain human life, many people survived and were able to tell their tales after the days of liberation. Life after captivity wasn't always easy and many had to persevere

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    people in order to gain control. Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is a retelling of Wiesel’s own agonizing experiences at a concentration camp. Wiesel shares his story of traumatizing events such as seeing people strangling others for food and leaving his dad to die. Wiesel’s was treating less and less like a human during his imprisonment. In Night, the bell at the concentration camp symbolizes the dehumanization of the prisoners by the Nazis. Used as a tool for dehumanization, Nazis used a bell

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    1944, and moved to the Auschwitz concentration camp. This book is Eliezer terrifying record of his memories about how Jewish people were transferred to concentration camps. Eliezer explains how the Nazis treated them like they were animals, made them work hard, and fed them little food. (the food given to them was only bread and soup). Because of the abusive treatment Eliezer witnesses and endures at the hands of the Nazis

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    Natzweiler Research Paper

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    opened a concentration camp, Natzweiler. Natzweiler was a concentration camp in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace, southwest of Strasbourg, France. It was the central camp and the only concentration camp in France. Nearly 22,000 deportees died there. (Struthof) The camp also served as both a labor camp supporting the Nazi war industry, and as a research spot for Nazi professors from the Reich University of Strasbourg to do medical experiments. Although Natzweiler is not a well-known camp, it is one

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