Promises of honor and prosperity, blind folded Germany and granted Hitler the power to implement his Final Solution. The Holocaust ravaged Europe, hopelessly Jews were slaughtered and fed to the flames. In attempt to cheat death, Jews could hide among loyal neighbors or confront the horrors in a Concentration Camp and pray for liberation, either path was a perilous journey. Elie Wiesel endured years of starvation and oppression in Concentration Camps, while Bronia Beker was constantly on the run and hiding from the Nazis. The turmoil of war spreads to the quiet hometowns, family crisis and separation, and the the living conditions, define Elie and Bronia. Elie and Bronia’s unique perspectives of the Holocaust differ in the actual situation, yet are homogeneous in the obstacle each individual overcomes.
Bronia Beker born in the serene town of Kosowa, was genuinely excited when war broke out in Poland. Nazis eventually dominated and forced the Jews into jobs, Bronia labored in a teahouse. She later traveled to Lvov to get away from the teashop and to go to school. Like a Plague, the war spread to Lvov, forcing Bronia home. The comforts of home whisked away her worries, though with the retreating Russians, bad times were settling in.
Her town was separated into ghettos. Bronia and her family built an underground hiding room with an air vent. When Nazis came to liquidate the ghettos Bronia’s family went into hiding. The Nazis never found the trap door, but clogged the vent. Everyone suffocated to death except Bronia, who was rescued by neighbors. Bronia hid with Joseph a close friend. They were stashed away in several friend’s barns and potato cellars until the end of the war. They had to travel place to place, bec...
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...d in the constant silence and fear of being discovered in hiding. Death was always lurking around the corner, as Joseph and herself scrambled into various cellars. Though not as severely deprived of food as Elie, Bronia still struggled with the small rations her caregivers supplied her. Both Elie and Bronia contemplated a quick death, suicide. Elie, all the time wanting to end the persisting persecution and Bronia wanting die for lack of reason to live without a family. Elie and Bronia alike, didn’t follow through, due to another person in their life urging them to push on. Elie endured physical torment on a regular basis, while Bronia coped with ongoing mental trauma of the long days waiting to be discovered and shot. Elie and Bronia both came out of the Holocaust with permanent scars, though each was caused by varying experiences, all were equally agonizing.
Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy, lives in Sighet during World War II with his mother, father, and two sisters, and he is very religious and wanted to study Judaism. However, there were warnings by some people that Jewish people were being deported and killed. Although no one believes these warnings, Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto where they have no food. After being in the ghetto Elie and his father are separated from Elie’s mother and sister because of selection and were placed in cattle cars where they had no room. They are taken to Auschwitz where they suffer from hunger, beatings, and humiliation from the guards which causes Elie’s father to become weak. By now Elie loses his faith in God because of all he has been through. Lastly, Elie’s father dies just before the Jews are liberated and Elie sees his reflection in the mirror but does not recognize himself because he looks like a skeleton.
For Lola, the nightmare of the holocaust started when her parents died. Her father developed a blood disease that killed him after being brutally beaten by a group of Germans. Her grandfather died shortly after. Her mother, a seamstress who had papers to work outside of the ghetto, was shot by a Nazi - for no reason other than he wanted revenge on a gestapo officer who “shot my Jews… I’ll shoot his Jews” (Rein Kaufman). Even through all the suffering Lola experienced as a young child, she didn’t give up. Lola’s Babcia - instead of mourning the loss of her children (she lost 4 of her 6 childre...
In Night, by Elie Wiesel, there is an underlying theme of anger. Anger not directed where it seems most appropriate- at the Nazis- but rather a deeper, inbred anger directed towards God. Having once been a role model of everything a “good Jew” should be, Wiesel slowly transforms into a faithless human being. He cannot comprehend why the God who is supposed to love and care for His people would refuse to protect them from the Germans. This anger grows as Wiesel does and is a constant theme throughout the book.
“He’s the man who’s lived through hell without every hating. Who’s been exposed to the most depraved aspects of human nature but still manages to find love, to believe in God, to experience joy.” This was a quote said by Oprah Winfrey during her interview with Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor. No person who has not experienced the Holocaust and all its horrors could ever relate to Elie Wiesel. He endured massive amounts of torture, physically, mentally, and emotionally just because he was a Jew. One simple aspect of Wiesel’s life he neither chose or could changed shaped his life. It is important to take a look at Wiesel’s life to see the pain that he went through and try to understand the experiences that happened in his life. Elie Wiesel is a well respected, influential figure with an astonishing life story. Although Elie Wiesel had undergone some of the harshest experiences possible, he was still a man able to enjoy life after the Holocaust.
...igher being, or achieving a lifetime goal. People can survive even in the most horrible of situations as long as they have hope and the will to keep fighting, but when that beacon begins to fade. They will welcome what ever ends their plight. The Holocaust is one of the greatest tragedies in human history. Elie Wiesel wrote this memoir in hopes that future generations don't forget the mistakes of the past, so that they may not repeat them in the future, even so there is still genocide happening today in places like Kosovo, Somalia, and Darfur, thousands of people losing their will to live because of the horrors they witness, if Elie Wiesel has taught us anything, it is that the human will is the weakest yet strongest of forces.
His Story on how he survived the holocaust? Eugene Black was born in Jeno, Schwartz in Munkas. He lived with his mother, father and his three other siblings.His sister Blanca died of a heart attack in the
In Czechoslovakia, on May 16, 1931 Hana Brady was born to her parents Marketa and Karel. Before Hana her parents had George, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. Unfortuantly Hana and her parents were victims. Hana was first involved in the Holocaust when she watched her parents get arrested by the Nazi's in 1941 leaving Hana and George alone. For the time, their Uncle and Aunt took them in to live with them. In May of 1942, Hana and George were deported to Terezin, a concentration camp, after receiving an order to report to the deportation center. While traveling to Terezin, Hana celebrated her 11th birthday. Upon arrival they were then separated from each other, into girl and boy barracks. Here Hana led an active life, she took secret classes
The conflict was then solved when russian soldiers came and saved all of the prisoners and set them free. They took the prisoners and let them roam in this village. Everyone was surprised to see jewish people wandering around. Everyone hated the jewish people and always called them “Jews!” One lady took in Fania and let her stay with her for a while. She didn’t give Fania a whole lot of food, but she still gave her
Zofia Baniecka was an only child. Her father was a sculptor and her mother was a teacher. She was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1917 and had a good childhood mostly because she was spoiled. Zofia was not religious even though she went to a school for catholics and there was a lot of jews at her school, although it wasn’t until the war stated that she figured out who was jewish. Zofia’s life was affected tremendously when World War II started. (“Rescuers: Zofia Baniecka - Shtetl- FRONTLINE”.) Zofia and her mom started hiding jews, guns, and ammunition in their large apartment that they received from the Underground, In 1941 during the winter. When the apartment got occupied, Zofia found another place for some of the jews to go to. When the war ended, her and her mom saved about 50 jews between the years of 1941 - 1944. (“Zofia Baniecka, Poland”.)
The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of the horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps, mainly Buchenwald, and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid, unforgettable, and shocking images of the past. It is beneficial that Wiesel published this, if he had not the world might not have known the extent of the Nazis reign. He exposes the cruelty of man, and the misuse of power. Through a lifetime of tragedy, Elie Wiesel struggled internally to resurrect his religious beliefs as well as his hatred for the human race. He shares these emotions to the world through Night.
In 1944, in the village of Sighet, Romania, twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends much time and emotion on the Talmud and on Jewish mysticism. His instructor, Moshe the Beadle, returns from a near-death experience and warns that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives. However, even when anti-Semitic measures force the Sighet Jews into supervised ghettos, Elie's family remains calm and compliant. In spring, authorities begin shipping trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. Elie's family is part of the final convoy. In a cattle car, eighty villagers can scarcely move and have to survive on minimal food and water. One of the deportees, Madame Schächter, becomes hysterical with visions of flames and furnaces.
Eva Heyman was born February 13, 1931, Nagyvarad, Hungary. In 1933-1939, Eva’s parents Agnes (her mother) and Bela (her father) divorced. Eva was the only child. Her mother remarried and moved to Budapest. She rarely saw her father, who lived on the other side of the city. She lived with her grandparents on the border between Romania and Hungary near the pharmacy they owned. Nearly one-fifth of the city’s population was Jewish. The beginning of the Holocaust had little impact on their lives.
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.