In the book Escaping Into the Night by D. Dina Friedman, Mrs. Rudowski, Halina’s mother is a victim because she was shot into a pit by the Nazis. When the Nazis were killing everyone in the ghetto, Batya found Halina sneaking around and told her that she saw what happened. Batya says, “they took my father and brothers; they took the men away and put them on a train. There was a deep pit. They told the women- No!” (Friedman 17). When Halina found out that the Nazis were going to kill everyone in the ghetto, she was on high alert. As Halina was sneaking around the apartment, Batya spotted her and told her what she saw. The Nazis were putting men on the trains to be deported, and killing the women as they shot them into a pit. I know that Mrs.
Trauma’s Effect on Identity Life experiences such as trauma shape and reshape people into their individual identities. Things such as faith, mannerisms, and general world views are all affected by a unique human experience on earth. This development of an individual is unveiled in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Through this novel, he details his experience in a concentration camp during WWII and thoroughly showcases how such agonizing life events affected him, which he usually describes through metaphorical light and dark and his development/loss of faith through this part of his life. In later speeches Eliezer makes, he explains his opinions on indifference in our world as worse than evil and some basic research of trauma responses in humans
Most people wake up and never think about being murdered by someone they once loved. Tracy Allen most likely thought the same way until one fatal night Garland Allen, her ex-husband and the father of her two children, took her life. In this episode of Cold Justice, Kelly Siegler and Yolanda McClary uncover how the crime was solved, the typology of the crime and the motivation for the crime. As Wolf (2014) wrote in the episode, on May 18, 2001 in Altus, Oklahoma was the last time anyone saw or heard from 27-year-old Tracy Allen.
and he wanted to kill her himself. ¨And at that very moment she spat in his face and he pushed the chair away and she died¨ (Chasia Bornstein's testimony). Seeing this tragedy made Chasia angry at the Nazis. She stood staring at the deceased girl for hours, even after everyone else had left. (Chasia Bornstein's testimony ¨Everybody had gone, but I couldn't move.
Decisions do not change your chance. In Night, a Memior written by Ellie Wiesel in 1958, a young boy by the name Ellie Wiesel suffers through the Holocaust with his father Shlomo Wiesel. Ellie Wiesel first experiences the Nazi party after being evacuated from his house and put in a ghetto. At this time Jewish people did not know the motive of the Nazi party. After being in the ghetto for a few months Ellie, his father, his mother, and sister where forcefully taken from their home and put in concentration camps.
In the book Night I believe that family is the highest priority to Elie. His father is very important to him and a great motivator to stay alive and keep trying. The book Night is set in a small town in WW2 the main characters are Elie and his father. They are both jews and are soon taken to a concentration camp and the book is about them surviving the camps they go to. Elie’s father is a big motivator for Elie, but in the end of the book Elie’s father dies.
During this time Jews were imprisoned in “ghettos”, dirty, cramped, awful torture, death, and work camps where thousands were killed everyday, including children (Heilke). Irena Sendler was a young woman with a fearless outlook on life. She saved over 2,500 Jewish children out of the ghetto, risking her life (Mazzeo). She could have been killed for her actions, but continued to save others.
First, when Isabella’s family first got to the concentration camp there was a piece of wood being passed over each fence trying to get to the right person. When Isabella’s family got the block of wood ‘The instructions said“My four sisters are in Lager C. Their name is Katz. Whoever finds this piece of wood, please toss it over the fences until it reaches them.” The message was shorter: ”You must live.
It was the summer of 1991 and Jaycee Dugard was facing the typical issues an eleven year old girl would. She had plans to go on a school field trip to a water park and wanted to ask her mother if she could shave her legs. However, she was never able to present the topic to her mother. On June tenth, she was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido outside of her Lake Tahoe home, in central California, while she was walking to her bus stop. Dugard remained hopeful throughout her first days of abduction that she would return to her mother, step-father, and baby sister shortly, but the Garrido’s had a much different plan.
Morgan Newton Debbie Kincaid English 12 8 February 2023 Into The Wilderness Into The Wild written by Jon Krakuer in 1997, sheds light on the true story of a twenty four year old man. Christopher McCandless’ 113 day odyssey, which was cut short by a fatal mistake. McCandless’ journey took place in 1992, and his body was discovered after spending approximately four months in the bush. Christopher Mccandless’ journey or even life was full of chance and bad luck, but unfortunately during his odyssey his bad luck outweighed his luck.
The poem, “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood, embodies the alluring ideas of Daisy Buchanan. The speaker of the poem describes the song she sings that “forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls.” We see Daisy doing the same in The Great Gatsby. She gives Gatsby false promises about how she never loved Tom and that she will divorce Tom in favor of Gatsby. We can almost imagine Gatsby reaching out on his dock towards the green light coming from Daisy’s dock.
Then the women started seeing flames and yelling. Then the people started beating her up and hitting her as hard as they could. Then they arrived at the camp and some were shot some were not shot. Some were taken to the gas chambers and killed. Some were sent to a ditch with fire in it to burn to death.
Humans' natural instinct to survive takes over when they are in perilous circumstances. The need to save yourself would be the first thing that would come to mind, regardless of how self-centered the choice might be. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel talks about his experience while in the concentration camps and how every often they were faced with life and death situations. When the Jewish people first arrive at the camp, they seem to care about each other and help each other. However, as the Holocaust progresses and the conditions the prisoners are forced into worsen, they are left with no choice but to focus solely on their own survival.
Camus said, 'Where there is no hope, one must invent hope. ' It is only pessimistic if you stop with the first half of the sentence and just say, There is no hope. Like Camus, even when it seems hopeless, I invent reasons to hope,” People often say that Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness, but what if there was no light? Elie Wiesel was almost 13 when he and his family and the rest of his town's Jewish population, were sent to the two confinement ghettos set up in sight. Elie Wiesel wrote this book to tell us his story and his experience in the Holocaust.
Despite the constant danger and unimaginable suffering, Vladka Meed stayed determined to survive and help others. Her bravery and resilience are an inspiration to us all. Vladka Meed's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto were characterized by suffering, survival, and losing loved ones. She witnessed the deportation and murder of family members, friends, and fellow Jews. This constant trauma and grief and she struggled with depression and survivor's guilt throughout her life.
When Madame exclaims that there’s a fire, Madame is not validated or heard. Rather, Madame is told to "shut up" and then forcibly beaten into silence. Once again, dehumanization is evident in how victims of evil treat one another. Throughout the camps, examples of children abandoning parents, people betraying one another, and internal aloneness dominating human actions until survival is all that remains are examples of dehumanization. These examples show that the Holocaust happened because individuals dehumanized one another.