The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of over six million Jews that can be traced back to the beginning of the Nazi’s rise to power in Germany in January 30, 1933. The Holocaust is the most well-known genocide in human history, and it is important to note that there were many groups whom of which were alongside the Jews. Homosexuals, POWs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and many more were persecuted by Nazis during their 12 year regime. As one would guess, drastic changes were made to the lives of those who were under control of the Nazi’s SS officers. As the book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel demonstrates, the biggest changes they faced were linked to their attitudes, personalities, and behaviors. While in the concentration camps, the attitudes …show more content…
Of course this is normal behavior for the time being in the late 1930s and early 1940s when the world had a larger religious platform. As Eliezer Wiesel demonstrates, when prisoners first began to enter the camps, they were exposed to great horrors, with the beginning being the train ride there. Even during the ride, they were stripped of basic human rights, such as a bathroom and shelter. During the ride, a lady on the train, Mrs. Schachter, begins to completely lose her mind. She furiously proclaims that she sees a big fire and huge flames all while they’re on the train. Multiple times she is beaten and told to be quiet. It can be assumed that this is because those who were on the train wanted to worry about things to the least extent, and her constant claims of a big fire were not helping anyone keep their hopes up, even though they might have already lost some. When people began to arrive at the camps, they were exposed to the crematoriums. While it was unclear what the crematoriums were for to some people, the fact that they saw piles of dead children thrown into a …show more content…
The people who were thrown into these camps had personalities that weren’t the same by the time they were done with the camp. Deprivation of hope can be the blame for this. However, many people who went into these camps were still very caring of others. After a while in the camps, Elie became more caring of his father than he did for himself. He would trade things for extra bread for his weak father. His father, in spite of his son’s help, felt that Elie should help himself and leave him be. His father began to lose his hope, for he knew his end was near. This was because he began to grow weaker and weaker. Elie had witnessed someone proclaim that he was glad that his father had finally died because now he was free and he could look out for himself now. Elie still kept his hope for his father and promised himself that he would never do the
Furthermore, while Mrs. Scheater was shouting on the train, she was attempting to warn the Jews about the destruction of their lives and danger. The people on the
At the camps the people are forced to work, and are killed for not working, or not being able to work. The people were taken to gas chambers, beat to death, or just left to die. Often after a person died they would burn the body. “ It cannot be true what they whisper here, that people are being burned in there …” (Sender 164), Ruth does not realize that people are really being burned in the chymes, because they don’t tell the “prisoners”.
During all of the struggles Elie gains a bit of life knowledge, and learns more emotions about himself. If this journey never happened Elie would still be focussing about his studies and not about his family. A fact Elie acquires during the holocaust is always to stay positive in hard times. An example of this is when Elie is running for miles and notices men giving up just makes Elie think about when he can sleep and eat at the next camp. When news comes that the Russians will save the prisoners, Elie keeps this as a positive and keeps thinking this horrifying journey will be over.
During the time of 1933-1945 the Nazi’s implemented a series of dehumanizing actions towards the jewish. In the book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel discusses his life before being deported to a concentration camp, his experience in concentrations camps, and how he was finally liberated. Through Wiesel, we are able to witness the way these unfortunate jewish people were stripped of their rights, experimented on and objectified. First of all, there were many laws that were being established that were specifically targeting the Jewish population as time was progressing in Nazi Germany. These laws made a huge impact and made it more difficult for the jewish community to live as “normal” human beings.
During Eliezer's captivity, many parts of him died and new parts developed in their place. In confinement, Eliezer's innocence and positive outlook towards life was diminished. In their place grew apathy and indifference. His innocence was stripped away when he was subjected to cruel punishment for doing nothing wrong. He quickly learned that not everything in life was fair.
They even took children to these inhumane camps. At the camps they would gas
The holocaust was known as a “systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its supporters. The Nazis who came into power in Germany in January 1933 believed that German’s were ‘racially inferior. '” (Introduction to the Holocaust, USHMM). During the peak of the Nazi regime, which was in the midst of the world war, the government implemented concentration camps as a method to “detain political and ideological opponents.” (Introduction to the Holocaust, USHMM).
”I did not weep and it pained me the i could not weep. But i was out of tears. And deep inside me, if i could i have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, i might have found something like: Free at last!... ” When his father died Elie wasn't sad all he could think of was the weight that was lifted off his chest, that he no longer had to be constantly worried or tending on his
In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.
They were putting tea over her face and gave her some bread to eat. Her teeth were sore when she woke up. She had typhoid, and she survived through it with the help of the women who were treating her. Many people died from typhoid every day in the camp. The Nazis gassed many people in the camps.
Think of a circumstance where you were so hungry and thirsty, that you did not even care to think about your father anymore. That circumstance goes against common father-son relationships. The common father-son motif is where the father looks out and cares for the son. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he explains why the circumstances around a father-son relationship can change their relationship, whether it 's for the better or the worse. Since the book is about the life of Elie in a Nazi concentration camp, the circumstances were harsh and took a toll on multiple father-son relationships.
Near the beginning of the novel, Elie wanted to be in the same camp with his father more than anything else. The work given to both his father and himself was bearable, but as time passed by, “. . . his father was getting weaker” (107). The weaker Elie’s father got, the more sacrifices Elie made. After realizing the many treatments Elie was giving his father compared to himself, each additional sacrifice made Elie feel as if his “. . .
The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.
In 1939, World War II began when the Nazi Party, invaded Poland, causing six to nine million Jewish people to fear for their lives. This fear began when all citizens had to register with the government, and the Jews had to wear the Star of David. Second, the Jews were forced into ghettos. Third, they were moved to concentration and death camps. For example, in “Resistance During the Holocaust” we see different ways of actively and passively resisting Nazi atrocities.
These consequences are discussed in detail, first through the personal experience of an Auschwitz survivor, and then through an examination of the coping techniques utilised by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as the long-term psychological and mental effects on survivors and their families. The Survivor or Concentration Camp Syndrome is described, as well as its relationship to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Holocaust's indirect consequences have manifested themselves in a variety of ways, most notably in the varying degrees of psychologic denial displayed by Holocaust perpetrators and the German populace (at least in the early postwar