Summary Of Hope's Reprise By David Newman

From the years 1942-1943, the world saw the ordinary men of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 murder roughly 60% of the Jewish population in Europe. The Nazi’s specifically called a Blitzkrieg against the Jewish community in Poland, leaving only a miniscule amount of Jewish people alive, the majority of which were placed in ghettos. Prior to the Nazi’s rounding up the Jews and forcing them into ghettos, the Nazi’s established the General Government. This establishment took place after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and began with Nazi’s stuffing Jews in rail road cars and dumping the Jews in the General Government, telling them to “get lost”.

In Livia Bitton-Jackson’s memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Bitton-Jackson recounts her experience of surviving the Holocaust through the character of Elli Friedman. Elli is a blossoming, intelligent adolescent girl who lives a normal life until the events of the Holocaust take place. Even a broken relationship with her mother does not stop Elli from giving up. This illuminates aspects of Elli’s admirable personality, such as wisdom beyond her years and her strong ambitious attitude. Elli’s young spirit still fights keep her mother alive in the camps despite her mother’s animosity.

During the holocaust, The Nazis used a form of treatment towards the Jews to make them feel less and less human it was called dehumanization. This means to deprive someone of their human like qualities and merely make them feel like a “thing” that gets in peoples way. They used this method to make it seem like the Nazis were doing them a favor, they were killing the jews to “purify” germany in their eyes. To begin, some inmates at the concentration camps (mostly the newer ones) were usually told that if they were fifteen, “No. you're eighteen” (Wiesel 133).

In the sea of “thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz and Birkenau”[pg.62], it was that one rebellious kid who sparked hope in the hearts of others. For those whose liberty is squashed, the bold words “long live liberty”[pg.62] can have tremendous meaning. But rather, it was due to the respect the boy deserved that hope arose. It was due to his courage that “the soup tasted better than ever”[pg.63] — or else his death would have gone in vain. In contrast to this, when the little pipel was hanged, the “Lagerkapo [head of the camp] refused to act as executioner.

As a result of the Nazi’s disregard for the Jews, they were stripped not only of their humanity but also of their chance at

Quotation from the Text Language Analysis “You cannot understand. I was saved miraculously. I succeeded in coming back. Where did I get my strength? I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves while there is still time.

When all hope is lost and it seems as if nothing mattered anymore, society is left with nothing but their family, faith and the unknown future. As the Jews of the Holocaust experienced the horrid acts of humanity, many were stripped of their true identity and fought for survival, abandoning their connection with family and faith. One of the Jews, Elie Wiesel, survived the horrors to retell his testimony of how the concentration camps wiped him of his faith, leaving only his father and a bitter, yet life-changing journey. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s novel, Wiesel has an unbreakable bond with his faith but has a distant connection to his father, yet after experiencing the horrors of Auschwitz, his faith deteriorates while he grows closer to his

From the very beginning of World War II, the Jews practiced denial as a form of survival. The prospect of the rumors of concentration camps and slaughtering of their friends and family being true was too great a burden for many of them. As a means of survival, the Jews attempted to keep their lives as normal as possible. Continuing to live in denial of their ever changing surrounding, the Jews remained peaceful and formed their own community. With no resistance from the Jews, the Germans had to exert little force to maintain control.

Introduction: During the Holocaust, many people suffered from the despicable actions of others. These actions were influenced by hatred, intolerance, and anti-semitic views of people. The result of such actions were the deaths of millions during the Holocaust, a devastating genocide aimed to eliminate Jews. In this tragic event, people, both initiators and bystanders, played major roles that allowed the Holocaust to continue. Bystanders during this dreadful disaster did not stand up against the Nazis and their collaborators.

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.

There were many who collaborated and murdered Jews, yet there were even more who kept silent and did nothing to stop this from happening. There were Nazis at the time who laughed at their victims, saying: If you try to tell people about this afterwards, no one will believe you! (Today, if you look on the internet, you will encounter hundreds of evil sites dedicated to anti-Semitism and denying that the Holocaust, a historical fact, took place.) So, the role of witnesses like Elie Wiesel is to fight the amoral indifference in this world, to remind us that he saw how the "cultured" Europeans degraded and murdered so many innocent individual human beings.

Many Germans, during WWII had started to take on the ideology of Hitler – that Jewish citizens in Germany were the cause of their poverty and misfortune. Of course, many knew that this was merely a form of scapegoating, and although they disagreed with the majority of Germany’s citizens, many would not speak up for fear of isolation (Boone,

People Who Helped in Hidden Ways Topic: Germans that helped Jews during World War II Working thesis statement: Helping Jews was very dangerous in Nazi Germany during World War Two because of Hitler’s bigoted nationalism, yet numerous Germans civilians and soldiers assisted a Jew in some way during the time of war. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel’s fictitious family and friends help Jews in the same ways that real life Germans helped Jews to hide and escape during World War II. Rolling Introduction Introduction Paragraph #1 Introduction Paragraph #2 Religious intolerance and persecution of Jewish people was common in Nazi Germany; however, there were some Germans that helped Jews despite the dangers. Some brave German soldiers and

The theme I chose to best represent these quotes is “Hope in the face of devastation”, because throughout all of the hardships the Jews endured, they kept their hopes up with their strong beliefs for salvation. The Jews tried to lift up other Jew’s spirits by telling them to be strong and to believe that they will survive. Strong beliefs in their ability to survive, helped the Jews to last in the concentration camps longer. The theme of hope even during all of the devastation surrounding the Jews is depicted throughout the novel.

In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, hope changes the mentality of forlorn prisoners. Previous to all the loss and misery, the Jews were a hopeful and trusting group of individuals. Any wrongdoings the German’s did, the Jews would assume it was for their wellbeing. “Who knows, they may be sending us away for our own good” (21). Believing they were being sent away for their own sake was their way of coping with the bad news.