Do you know about the holocaust? In the book, Night, by Ellie Weisel there were many terrible things that happened. Among these terrible things were the loss of many innocent people, Jews were separated from their family and undiagnosed PTSD from the few survivors. In the story many people were separated and some put into gas chambers and suffocated. They were mostly transported in cattle cars that were extremely crowded. The Natzi’s had no empathy for any jews no matter if they were children or elderly. With that being said, the holocaust was very gruesome physically, also mentally and it was extremely detrimental to our history and is still discussed today. The holocaust was physically gruesome in ways such as, Jews being sent to camps where most of the time they were treated more like cattle. At these camps they were terribly fed and most of the time were left starving. This can be seen in the book when Ellie Weisel writes “We went to fetch the evening meal: bread and margarine” (Weisel 44). At these camps they were constantly being tortured and experimented on. Those are the reasons that the holocaust was physically gruesome. …show more content…
They were also constantly tortured and experimented on randomly. They were constantly dehumanized and treated more as cattle. In the book, Ellie Weisel discussed how the Jews lost their identity, which was the only thing making them human. Being called a mix of words and numbers takes a toll on your mental health, mainly to the Jews. During the time of the holocaust there weren't many doctors that knew about PTSD, so many Jews that survived, went undiagnosed. These are the reasons why I think the holocaust was also mentally
The Holocaust was a horrible point in time where around 6 million Jews were tortured and killed in what was called concentration camps back in the early 1900s. The things that Jewish people went through were nothing like anything we've seen before, almost inhuman the things they were forced to do. The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the horrific things that went on in the Holocaust that were dehumanizing. Wiesel shows how the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish people by putting in great detail as to what was going on like the carts they had to travel by and the way they are lined up to be thrown in a pit
In the book “I Had Lived A Thousand Years” by Livia Bitton-Jackson talks about Jews being tortured by the Germans. The Germans hate the Jews because they blame the Jews for losing World War 1. Ellie and her family were sent to concentration camps where they face their nightmares and are separated by the Germans. They were suffering, but were afraid to run away.
Hitler’s mass genocide of European Jews is now known as the Holocaust, which resulted in the death of over six million Jews as well as other ethnic and religious minorities and political opponents of his political party, the Nazis. The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is a first-hand account of the conditions inside one of Hitler’s extermination camps. The story focuses on a fifteen year-old boy, Eliezer Wiesel, and his father as they suffer through time in both Auschwitz and Buchenwald, two of the most notorious Nazi death camps. Eliezer experiences unimaginably horrific events, such as the hanging of a young boy and people being burned alive in ditches filled with flames. Although many people were aware that these appalling acts were occurring, very few chose to make an effort to save those affected.
Have you ever been told the specific details pertaining to the Holocaust? Have you heard the gruesome stories explained by the Jewish people? Have you seen the horrid movies and re-enactments of what the Jewish people went through during the Holocaust? The Jewish were beaten! Killed!
Elie wiesel was born september 30 1928, He was a basic jewish child. He grew up in a small village in romania. His world was centered around his family, god and his religion. All of this was nearly destroyed in the years to come in his lifetime. .His
And the ways they were transported to those different camps were cruel and insensitive. When they shipped the Jewish prisoners from camp to camp, they didn’t care about their health conditions. “The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one” (22). This was their first of many ways they were transported. They shoved 80 people in a cattle car with only a couple buckets of water, and a few loaves up bread.
These children were persuaded to believe that the Jewish people were plotting against them and were known as the “enemy within Germany.” Whereas, Natzis were known as “the people who wanted the best for Germany and who did something about it.” Then these people, with mindsets raised to have hatred towards the Jews and faith in the Natzi, enlisted in the army and began work in concentration camps. These people who performed barbaric acts of inhumanity daily, felt as though they were exterminating nothing but enemies. If they were in war, holding a machine gun, as Russians came running towards them, they would shoot and try to kill as many as possible.
Also the SS men made all the prisoners look the same so they could all feel like there was no place for them. Also the SS men’s form of dehumanization was abuse and the SS men were hurting the prisoners in many violent ways including, whipping , hitting, blows to the head, barley feeding them, forcing them to get tattoos of numbers on their arms that they have to live with forever, and much more. The prisoners had to live with these scars and memories for the rest of their lives and always have a memory of what it was like in the holocaust always in the back of their mind. It's a very awful experience that they went through while in the concentration
Anyone interested in the holocaust or what happened during those times would find this book very informative. Almost anyone looking for a historical story of hardships and trying to be optimistic, would like hearing this story. If any reader is willing to learn about the hardships Jews went through during World War 2, they would enjoy reading this text. Audiences with historical tastes and a wanting to hear an inspirational story would enjoy this story. The authors reason to write the text would be to inform of the horrors of the concentration camps, and to inform of what life was like for the many Jews that endured long-lasting suffering.
“During the years of the “Final Solution” between 1942 and 1945, Jews and several groups of non-Jews targeted by the Nazi regime were interned, enslaved, humiliated, and exterminated in ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps” ("What We Value" - Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust). In conclusion, the Jews were treated less than vermin, and killed, because they were viewed as a lesser form of human. Death was an inevitable ending for a multitude of Jews during the Holocaust. Millions of Jews lost their lives to inhuman acts. Nazis forced the surviving prisoners on long marches to camps out of the way of the advancing enemy armies.
In the memoir Night, the Jews were dehumanized by the Nazis until they had so very little left, whether it was their dignity, friends and family, or will to live. The moment the Jews entered the concentration camps, they were subject to dehumanization. The Nazis abused them and threw their babies into furnaces. Families were separated, and everyone was beaten. They were given a single tiny rations of food that could hardly count as a serving.
In 1939, a man named Adolf Hitler, a veteran of WW1, rose to power with a group of people in the “Nazi Party” and they had planned to overthrow the government. Their big plan led to a mass genocide of many groups of people but the most well-known group of that was the Jewish people. They were put into concentration camps where they would end up malnourished and treated with horrible/animalistic treatment where they would work day and night just to end up weak and unfortunately die in the process. In the book ‘Night’ written by Eliezer Wiesel, he goes into detail on the experiences that he and his father, Shlomo, endured while in the concentration camps because they were ripped apart from the other half of their family in the year 1944. Eliezer
Schindler’s List displays this by showing how the Jews were sent to forced labour camps such as the Plaszow. When they arrived to these labour and concentration camps, they were separated by gender as told “men to the left, women to the right”, this separated families causing more effective discomfort to the Jews. In the labour camps, many Jews were shot often resulting in death because they were not working to the satisfaction of the Nazis or SS officers who were in charge of that labour camp. If any Jews were seen as unhealthy they were sent to death camps. During this stage of the holocaust many Jews were
Jewish citizens had to experience this every day, and a variety of other inhumane events both in the Ghettos and in the concentration camps, which led to most Jews suffering from horrendous
Dehumanization of the Jews During the Holocaust, dehumanization of the Jews took place. The Natzis would do several things to try and make the Jews feel like animals and nothing more. They wanted to show that the Jews were a race that should have not existed. They would go to any means to complete their objective of an Aryan race.