ipl-logo

Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiseel

558 Words3 Pages

For the last few months, we have been reading the book Night by Elie Wisel. Elie is s 15 year old boy who survived the tragic events of the holcaust during World War 2. In this book, 86 year old Elie tells his compelling story of hardship and strength as he goes through the death camps of burkenwald and Aushwitz. In this essay, I will tell you about Another survivor and her story. Her name is Hanna Szper and I will tell you about her life before, during, and after the holcaust. I will start off by telling you about Hanna Szper before the invasion of Poland in 1939. According to http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html Hanna lived with her mother, her father and her older brother in Lublin, Poland. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html states that they lived in big house and were very fortunate. Hanna had many friends in her hometown and had a fairly normal life. …show more content…

According to http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html, Hanna was 24 and living in Lulin when the invasion was going on. She was teaching literature. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html also states that Hanna tried to flea to Warsaw, but was caught before she arrived. She was arrested and a German officer was assigned to tell her her fate. The officer allegedly told Hanna she will be hung from a tree. He also told her that he would let her go but he would be killed. I received all of the i formation in this paper from

Show More
Related

  • Teens Who Fought Hitler By Lauren Tarshis

    463 Words  | 2 Pages

    The article,“Teens Who Fought Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis describes the tragedies that happened during the Holocaust to Ben a Jewish boy, and Ben’s family and all the other Jews which millions perished at the hands of the Nazis including his parents. Ben Kamm lived during one of the most horrific and traumatizing events in world history, the Holocaust. Him and his family lived a normal life but in 1918 was when he would no longer live that life when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Warsaw and sent all Jews to the ghetto then to bring them to concentration camps killing them with gas. However, some of the kids went through holes in the walls joining partisan camps to sabotage the Nazis. Thankfully he survived though the unspeakable and unimaginable challenges

    Read More

  • Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

    592 Words  | 3 Pages

    During the Holocaust about 500,000 to 750,000 people were murdered due to their religion. Elie Wiesel was one of the people who survived this tragic event and wrote Night to bring attention and to inform about how it happened. The book Night is a nonfiction book about how Elie Wiesel lived in the town of Sighet as a child and was put into a concentration camp. He was put in a concentration camp because he is Jewish and was growing up during World War 2, when Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jewish people. This book is well written and fits all of my criteria for what makes a book worth reading.

    Read More

  • Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

    646 Words  | 3 Pages

    The book I chose to read was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is an autobiography. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish American who went through the Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. He is an author, professor and an activist. He was born on September 30th, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania.

    Read More

  • Otto Frank Research Paper

    873 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Evil that Follows During World War II, millions of lives were claimed by the Holocaust; over six million Jews were killed by the Nazis because of Hitler 's hatred towards the Jews. One family, The Franks, were affected by this unnecessary hatred. The Franks were a total of four people, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Margot Frank, and Anne Frank. The Franks lived a normal life in Germany but decided to move as Jews were given less and less freedom because of Hitler 's laws to oppress the Jews. Even when the Frank Family left Germany to the Netherlands the Nazis invaded there and they were in the same situation once again.

    Read More

  • Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

    466 Words  | 2 Pages

    This book was first published in 1989 by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a jewish writer who was born in 1928 in Sighetu Marmației, Transylvania, which is apart of Romania. Him and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz in which him and his two older sisters survived. At first I was selecting a book to get it over with, but after I’ve read the story I started to take interest in it.

    Read More

  • Anthem By Ayn Rand: Manipulating Minors

    856 Words  | 4 Pages

    Manipulating Minors In Ayn Rand’s novella, Anthem, the children are separated from their families in order to prevent individualistic thinking and give power to the dictator much like in real life totalitarian societies. Dictatorial leaders enforce children to live apart from their families, because they want to gain complete control over society, create a master race or an army, and influence the children’s way of thinking, which is illustrated in past totalitarian societies such as the Soviet Union under Stalin, the Spartans in ancient Greece, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and Nazi Germany under Hitler. Totalitarian leaders have to obtain absolute dominance over the population in order to stay in power.

    Read More

  • Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

    740 Words  | 3 Pages

    Night by Elie Wiesel, should definitely be taught to 10th grade students around the world. Night is a book which will enlighten students on the revolting occurrence of the Holocaust, and to inform generations to come, so similar massacres will not reoccur in the future. Night also incorporates the trait, hope, and reminds everyone to be grateful for what they given. Night is a very heartbreaking nonfiction story about a boy who must survive throughout the harshest living conditions known to mankind. Night introduces a new glimpse of the world from an entirely different perspective of life.

    Read More

  • Summary Of All But My Life By Gerda Weissmann Klein

    554 Words  | 3 Pages

    Gerda Weissmann Klein’s perspective of the Holocaust, which she describes in her memoir, All But My Life, detailed the experience of a young Jewish woman surviving the Holocaust, of which she says “Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden” (247). Weissmann Klein’s account of her experience began on September 3, 1939 at her home in the town of Bielitz, Poland, just as Germans enforcing the new Nazi policies began to arrive. Prior to that night, which was only the beginning for Weissmann Klein, Jews within Nazi Germany had already been feeling the effects of Adolf Hitler’s ideals for almost five years. From 1933 until 1939, when Weissmann Klein’s recount began, German Jews were subject to the passing of many racist and genocidal laws prohibiting them from everything from finding work, to

    Read More

  • Inge Auerbacher's Life During The Holocaust

    548 Words  | 3 Pages

    Out of the millions of Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust, there were a select few who survived. Inge Auerbacher was one of those who did. Inge was the daughter and only child of Regina and Berthold Auerbacher. She was born December 31, 1934 in Kippenheim, Germany which was one year after the Nazis first came to power. The Auerbachers lived in a small village in South Germany, and in the same town her father owned his own fabric and cloth company.

    Read More

  • The Diary Of Anne Frank Analysis

    756 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Holocaust killed over six million jews which left many jewish people in fear that they could get taken to. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett followed the life of a Jewish family in hiding by telling the story through a girls diary. All the historical events of World War II affected those who lived in the annex in “The Diary of Anne Frank.” As the Nuremberg Laws are passed it stripped all German jew of their rights such as being able to ride bikes, owning business, go to normal German schools or be able to be in a government, medical, oor teaching profession and taking their German citizenship from them.

    Read More

  • Levi Vs. Survival In Auschwitz By Primo Levi

    1067 Words  | 5 Pages

    Even outside of concentration camps, people were discriminated against for being Jewish. Ruth Kluger explains that whenever she left her house she “wore a Judenstern to alert other pedestrians that [she] wasn't really white,” because to the Nazis her religion outshone her physical appearance. Though her family was not very religious, only participating in high holidays, their religion was the only thing others saw. Kluger writes, “Now that my tentative faith in my homeland was being damaged by daily increments beyond repair, I became Jewish in defense.” Her identity was forced to shift from one of patriotism and love for her country to her religion that she knew little about.

    Read More

  • Expository Essay On Anne Frank

    760 Words  | 4 Pages

    Anne Frank Explanatory Essay In the year 1933, the tragedy known as the holocaust began with Adolf Hitler. This event killed over 6 million people, and impacted many more. One family that was greatly affected were the Franks. In 1945 the Franks went into hiding.

    Read More

  • The Story Of Madeline Deutsch And Mayer Adler

    554 Words  | 3 Pages

    During the time of World War II, Madeline was attending high school like as if it was a normal day. Until around April of 1944, where her family were forced to go to the Hungarian ghetto, and for a middle class family they were not comfortable there. Although, they were only located there fore about two weeks until they were transferred to Autshwitz, where something terrible happened. Upon arriving, Madeline and her mother were separated from her father and brother, being the last time she ever saw them. The Jews all had a trembling terrifying experience while being at the concentration camps and only Madeline and her mother

    Read More

  • The Girl In The Green Sweater Summary

    1722 Words  | 7 Pages

    The Holocaust was a big tragedy that started on January 30, 1933, and ended in 1945.These twelve years affect a lot of people around the world differently mentally, physically and emotionally. There are some people who actually went through this horrible time period and was able to tell their story and some people who left her diary behind for others to tell their story. One book I read that stood out from other books During the Holocaust was The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust 's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger. The story was told by Chiger herself.

    Read More

  • Informative Essay On The Holocaust

    436 Words  | 2 Pages

    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.

    Read More

More about Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiseel

Open Document