After 11 weeks of working in the lavines I am transferred to work in the infirmary. I attend to the sick patients and try to cure them with the little resources we have. I have no experience in the medical field at all, I’ve decided it is my job to keep spirits up or to help people die in peace. Not many people who walk into the infirmary walk out again, as I stated before there were many selections and the weak simply aren 't strong enough to get well. I’ve seen every injury you could possibly imagine from the common killer, Typhus, to internal mutilation from the experiments. I see death everyday, I see the young and the old move on to a better world. There was one girl who was so afraid of death, she was so young, I told her to close her eyes and rest, I sat next to …show more content…
Pain creeps through different holes until it finds it’s way to you. On one particular day I witnessed a puzzling sight, the Germans being nice. Though we were on the other side of the railroad tracks I could clearly make out a guard and a prisoner interacting without violence. Nazis weren’t allowed to be compassionate of empathetic to us. Another two figures emerge from a car with a red cross on it, they’d come to inspect the camp. This was the prize winning pumpkin of the prisoners, those who were fed decently and were healthy. They were the model of Auschwitz, to show the rest of the world that we were okay, nothing bad was happening to us. If they’d only looked across the tracks. If they looked beyond what was presented they’d see what was really going on! The nazis however will try to do anything to cover it up, to cover all this up, they burnt down Plaszow, they destroyed synagogues, destroyed papers and everything that showed we existed. We were here! My hysterical crying put me to bed each night and the cold brush of death sweeps close and close and each new day
“I was desensitized to all the pain, even though it was essentially all around me. ”--Julie Wenzel When one is surrounded by traumatizing encounters, one will get used to it. To illustrate in the novel Night, Elie Wiesel and millions of other Jews experiences the same ordeals while they are being forced into concentration camps and went through traumatizing ordeals.
When Bruno and his family had to leave their home and live near the concentration camp because his father worked for the Nazis, Bruno felt broken hearted since he had to leave his friends. When they arrived at their new home, Bruno kept questioning his parents about the “farm”, “farmers”, and if he could play with them. But, his parents never told him the real truth by telling him it’s not a farm. (Herman). The innocent eight year old Bruno never knew it was a concentration camp where they killed thousandths of people a day.
When asking anyone what the Holocaust is, there is a very standard answer as to what it was. It is infamously known as the mass killings and imprisonment of Jewish people throughout most of Western Europe. What people fail to acknowledge is that there is more to the Holocaust than this “standard answer.” There have been multiple accounts of what it was like to be in the Holocaust such as the famous books The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Night by Elie Wiesel. The memoir A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal serves the same purpose as any text about this atrocity has served: to inform the public about what truly went on in the concentration camps and beyond.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 3.6% of adults in the U.S. have PTSD. Throughout the Holocaust, prisoners were faced with an immense amount of abuse. Mentally and physically, people were put through so much trauma, making it almost impossible to fight against death and to survive the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Literature regarding the Holocaust often juxtaposes two ideas, despair and optimism, helping the authors to show a shared theme. In “Coping” from Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviett, and “Night” by Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel, juxtaposition reveals the theme of in severe trauma, people’s reactions fall into two groups, those who choose to hope and fight to survive, and others who fall into a state of despair
Not only did the camps cause physical pain it also caused mental pain. Sick patients didn't get the help they needed and deserved. Depression and anxiety was not treated correctly as well. Everyone has this pressure to be perfect but yet not to stick out. In the story there is a sense of hope and aspiration toward life going back to normal.
Every single human being, at some point in time, goes through various troublesome experiences, be it a natural disaster, illness, an abusive relationship, a violent incident, or the loss of a loved one. However, some experiences are more devastating than others. Each survivor has his/her way of coping with the trauma and maintaining sanity. Elie Wiesel, one the survivors of the Holocaust, gives us some insight into dealing with tough experiences. He spent a year imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, the same camps where he lost all his family members (Wiesel 15).
I 've got this planet in my hands You know I 'll waste it if I can Come on let 's give it a twist And if it all turns to shit- Oh wait, let 's try that again. My life 's too short to have a plan Here, let me help you understand First take this drink and this pill Relax your mind and be still Let 's find out who I am 'Cause I- I 'm just American trash Stupid American trash I 'm just American- Stupid American trash I 've got this planet in my hands
Moving on from tragedy is painful. Our memory has a tendency to interfere at the most haunting times in our lives. Recovering after a tragedy is a crucial time for an individual in coping for emotional, physical, and mental healing. Survivors of the Holocaust struggle trying to get themselves together after enduring agony and distress from the genocide. Survivors of the Holocaust suffered harsh working conditions, starvation and dehydration, dark and crowded inmate cells, a tattooed number for each inmate, and losing their morals from chaotic concentration camps.
The stories of what happened in the Auschwitz camps are very saddening. The liberation of the camps were just as bad. People were put on trains and they froze or starved to death. All this happened because Adolf Hitler decided to blame the loss of a war on people who really had no part of it. The whole experience of the Holocaust is something that is that should be continued to learn about and
Without the fear of being afraid of the camp at first arrival or the fear of the Jew not eating because they know they will be killed, there wouldn’t be much hope. This proves the point on why fear overpowers people and make them not do what they would normally due since there life is at risk. This truly shows the bad of the holocaust. Due to all the fear no one could stand up to
There are many events in history but Holocaust left a permanent scar on the face of history. The event soaked in blood and tears of innocent would be unforgettable. Holocaust also known as Shoah (in Hebrew) was a genocide that took lives of millions of people from different backgrounds. Approximately 1 million Gypises were killed, 1.5 million mentally and physically handicapped people were victims of T-4 program, but Jews where the primary victims and 6 million Jews died in holocaust (Neiwyk and Nicosia). The Holocaust took place between 1933-1945.
Hitler was a horrible person for the things he did to the Jews and it shouldn’t be forgotten. Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. (page 62 and 63) This is crazy Hitler made young innocent teens and older men stare at the young teen being hanged. Then they had to go back to work like it wasn’t that big of a deal and just acted like nothing really happened.
After going through so much, many people do not have the same mindset as they did before. Being tortured and watching others being tortured changes a person’s life, especially Elie’s, his father’s, Moshe the Beadle’s, and Rabbi Eliahou’s. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, shares his own experience of going through a concentration camp, and it is clear that many things in his life changed
The Effects of Suffering on a 12 year Old Boy “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars” - Khalil Gibran. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel copes with the agony of the Holocaust first hand. Suffering by definition is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. In Wiesel’s Night, suffering forces people to make inhumane decisions, shatters hope, and destroys self identity. Suffering forces people to be put in bad places where they feel pressured to eventually make inhumane decisions.
Did you know that Pavel Friedman, the author of the book The Butterfly wrote “A total of around 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through [the concentration camp] Terezin. Of these, around 100 came back”. This is a completely, absolutely horrid statistic, and yet it is true. Speculate about being a child back in Nazi Germany. Not all of these kids were Jews.