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Alain Resnais 'Survival In Auschwitz' By Alain Levi

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The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying events of the twentieth-century. During the Holocaust, Jews, for their supposed racial inferiority, experienced wide-spread state-sponsored persecution and genocide by Germany’s Nazi Party (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). While Jews were the primary target, other groups targeted for their supposed racial inferiority included the Roma, the disabled, and some of the Slavic people. Groups persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds included Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and gay people. This persecution began with the creation of ghettos, transit camps, and forced labor camps, all meant to make the deportation of Jews later easier. This deportation was to extermination camps, where Jews were murdered with gassing facilities. Millions …show more content…

Survival in Auschwitz is a book written by the Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. In the book, Levi describes his journey to the Auschwitz concentration camp, referred to as the Lager, and how he and others survived the deathly conditions of the camp. Throughout his narrative, Levi offers reflections on humanity that he derived from his experiences. Alain Resnais’s documentary Night and Fog explores the Holocaust from a different perspective. Colorful film shot at the Auschwitz camp from what is the current day in the film and black and white stock footage of the Holocaust alternate between each other. The film details the journey of those who suffered through the camp. It describes the creation of the camp, explores the increasingly horrific conditions the prisoners endured, and ends with emphasizing how even though liberation took place, no one took responsibility for the atrocities. The narration, written by the Holocaust survivor Jean Cayrol, ties the footage together into a reflective piece. Both of these works thoughtfully explore the Holocaust and its

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The novel ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel and the film ‘Schindlers List’ directed by Steven Spielberg, are both based in World War 2 and more specifically the holocaust and the attempted cleanse of the Jewish race. These two texts both heavily demonstrate the horrors and brutalities that the Jewish people had faced during the holocaust. The two depictions of these events have many similarities although one being word and the other being film, however they differ in perspective, Schindlers List showing an outside look at the events where Night is a first person experience. The two representations of the holocaust, although are opposites of perspective both do not shy away from showing the brutalities and the wickedness that took

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“Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience in the concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel does an excellent job of genuinely highlighting the horrific events that took place throughout the genocide. In “Night,” Wiesel illustrates how horrific the Holocaust truly was, by controlling the tone with diction and syntax. By using syntax, the tone in “Night” felt sensationally real, and gave us a raw perspective of what everyday life was like in Auschwitz. One way he utilized this technique was by making us feel panicked when serious events occurred, making sure we, the readers, didn’t feel like we were only spectating but were there and understood the gravity of the situation.

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The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of over six million Jews that can be traced back to the beginning of the Nazi’s rise to power in Germany in January 30, 1933. The Holocaust is the most well-known genocide in human history, and it is important to note that there were many groups whom of which were alongside the Jews. Homosexuals, POWs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and many more were persecuted by Nazis during their 12 year regime. As one would guess, drastic changes were made to the lives of those who were under control of the Nazi’s SS officers. As the book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel demonstrates, the biggest changes they faced were linked to their attitudes, personalities, and behaviors.

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The documentary of Kitty Hart-Moxon’s experiences, “Day in Auschwitz”, is all about what it was like in the Auschwitz camps she was in, how brutal times could be, and how she became a survivor. Auschwitz was designed as a factory of death and no one was intended to survive or let the world know about it’s inhumanity. In both Kitty’s story and the book “Night”, both were taken to Auschwitz at a young age and both were ripped from family. Kitty was only seventeen when she went to the camp and one of her first impressions when she got the was the ghost like figures with shaved heads, staggered, in tattered clothes with great big eyes, screaming in all languages being beaten. In night Eliezer was only twelve.

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Although Night provides the experience of a Holocaust survivor, “Inside Auschwitz”, a documentary by Oprah Winfrey featuring Elie Wiesel, introduces the Holocaust by displaying Auschwitz, the concentration camp where Elie once lived. By listening to Elie Wiesel’s voice, it is clear the survivor is still traumatized by the Holocaust. Hearing Elie’s voice allows readers to understand the pain he went through and still goes through. Whereas while reading it, readers are not able to fully comprehend how hurt Elie is when discussing his experience. Furthermore, the documentary provides visuals allowing people to observe the concentration camp.

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