How did the execrable setting, the concentration camps, alter those involved? Good people were manipulated and changed into performing heinous acts. “Night,” is written from the perspective of Eliezer, as he navigated through the survival of the Holocaust, with his father. Eli became aware that people who neglected their morals thrived, this revelation troubled him deeply. The inhumane atrocities that took place during the Holocaust resulted in corrupt mindsets among those involved: the German soldiers, the Jews and Eliezer himself. How could German workers and soldiers murder millions of families, then go home to their own families? How did these normal people, justify their cruel and ruthless actions? Many of these people were known as …show more content…
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. They believed that the extermination of the Jews was simply what happened in war, as the Jews were the enemies who came from the inside of Germany. So, whether killing at the front line or in their homeland, their was no difference in their mind. The …show more content…
Survival meant sacrifice, because of this, Eli witnessed sons abandoning their own fathers. Rabbi’s son, ran as far away from his weak father, in order to increase his own chance of survival. (page 91) Many saw these kind of self prevailing decisions as a necessity to live, Eliezer proved his strength as he refused to give in. It is evident that Eliezer is consistent in his morals as he provides for his father from begin to end. Though he was starving and desired food more than anything, Eli understood that his father needed it more. He chose to give his tiny ration of food, to his beloved father, putting his own health at risk. After his father’s death Eli admits that deep down he felt relieved. He never let his actions depict how he was feeling inside, the love that he had for his father suppressed the fate that turned so many good men to act in evil ways. Though beaten and scared, Eliezer escaped the atrocities of man that involved “survival of the
Ordinary Men Summary When most people think and learn about the holocaust they are only taught from the Jewish peoples point of view. They learn about the mass murder committed by Hitler and the Nazis. A group that is usually overlooked is the German people that were forced to take part of Hitler’s “ethnic cleansing.” The book Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning goes into detail about the men that were forced into killing innocent people and coerced Jewish people into concentration camps. In this insightful book Browning reveals the background, emotions, and thoughts of a group of men called the Reserve Police Battalion 101.
However, the horrors of the concentration camp makes Eliezer and his father begin to value their relationship. As the story progresses, Elie has one thought—not to lose his father. In the camp, Eliezer and his father have stuck together and stayed by each other for most of the story. This is in contrast to their relationship before their imprisonment.
The crime against humanity known as The Holocaust started with the initial establishment of concentration camps in 1933, and was brought to an end in 1945 with the conclusion of World War II. In May of 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family were deported to Auschwitz, and in January of 1945, Elie and his father were evacuated to Buchenwald. Night is a personal memoir that follows Elie’s journey through this Dante-esque Hell. Elie Wiesel’s autobiography is a perfect example of bildungsroman, as its entire premise is to show the effects of the Holocaust on the psyche of an idealistic young man whose faith undergoes the most severe test one could imagine. Elie applies literary strategies such as characterization, conflict, irony, juxtaposition, suspense
At this time Eliezer him self had become the “Patriarch” and still reassured his father that he would not die. Around this time his father had contracted dysentery, limiting his ability to work and move about. Throughout this ordeal Eliezer and his father help each other survive by means of mutual support and concern. I believe by this time Eliezer was so mentally abused he didn’t know what he believed in any more. As Eliezers father grows weaker from dysentery, he helps his father while at the same time questioning his own beliefs about family.
Night: Journal Writing Humanity consists of qualities that make us human, the way we love, care, and have compassion for others. In this novel, I can read about how people got tortured, and treated so badly that they were completely dehumanized. As I read how the Germans treated the Jews, for example, having little to no compassion for them, torturing them, making them live under the inexplicable circumstances they did. It rose upon me many questions based on how and why did this happen.
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.
Survivors of many different genocides find uncanny similarities within their experiences. Elie Wiesel writes about his experiences growing up as a Jewish boy during the Holocaust in his memoir titled Night, which can be compared to numerous other historical events that happened to other groups of people. Many of the incidents described by Wiesel correlate with the horrific actions the Christian Armenians experienced during their persecution in 1915. The two minorities were severely mistreated and victimized by their perpetrators in similar ways, which makes these two genocides comparable. In fact, there have been suspicions that Adolf Hitler himself based some of his strategies off of tactics used in the Armenian Genocide.
Worth Remembering People may know of the Holocaust, but not many know the specifics of this horrifying history. They know who was involved, how they were effected, and who was eventually killed. It’s time to show these victims respect, and learn their story. Studying the Holocaust is more than remembering the random facts; it’s learning from the atrocities and never repeating them again. Many people may ask why the Nazis committed this horrible crime against humanity, but to them the Jews were nothing more than a group of animals.
INTRODUCTION From 1939 to 1945, the Nazis hunted and threatened with death all Jews children in the countries occupied by the Nazi army. When the Nazis came to power, the Jewish children became victims of anti-Semitic laws. During the War, 80% of Jew’s children, survived thanks to friends who hide them, neighbors or family members or by the resistance organizations.
In many ways, Nazis had physically, mentally, and emotionally dehumanized their victims. The Jews were treated so badly by the Nazis that they felt as if they weren’t even humans; they felt like animals. For example, the Jewish prisoners were always being yelled at with harsh tones. Eliezer only remembers one time when a Polish
Eliezer’s best traits come out and allow him to survive his terrible ordeal, which are adaptability, determination, patience, and perseverance. Elie uses his father as his reason to persevere and keep on going through. For example, whenever Eliezer’s father dies, Eliezer loses all function and does not even want to recount how empty and lonely he felt. On page 32, Eliezer describes how great his fear of
The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.
The SS Officers are Responsible The Holocaust was one of the scariest times in history to be alive. People were judged by their race, beliefs, and even their physical appearances. The prejudice people that lived in that time era were cruel and there was proof that the majority of the blames land into the SS Officials hands.
If not for the fact that Elie has been fighting to live every day he would not have had the urge to live any longer. When Elie lost his dad, the only instinct left inside of him was to eat. He stopped caring about his family and the others around him, meanwhile resorting to fulfilling his own desires. When Elie’s dad is first introduced in the book, it is evident that he did not have a good relationship with Elie. Elie’s father does not seem to care for Elie and just about his duties for the town.
Eliezer and his father rely on one another to survive through the Holocaust. Together they encounter the cruelty of the Nazis, the lack of compassion from the prisoners, as well as the difficulty of simply surviving. They remain strong together unlike other father-son relationships seen in the novel. A majority of the prisoners gravitate towards self preservation while Eliezer chooses to remain with his father. Eliezer does exhibit ambivalence in continuing to help his father because the conditions of the Holocaust continually make it harder to make others a priority than oneself.