Also, the main character is a teenager as he enters the camps like Eliezel. Like Eliezel, he tries to be as kind as he can but struggles with the horrors of the camps. Like the Gruener family survive in cramped spaces and many deportations. Both books find that luck finally runs out.
I believe that "Camp Harmony" by Monica Stone is not an appropriate name. This camp seemed to serve the purpose of making Japanese citizens miserable and home sick. These Japanese warriors had to suffer through harsh nights, prison-like rooms, and not enough warmth. " Throughout the barracks, there was a medley of creaking cots, whimpering infants, and explosive night coughs. " The author describes the harsh nights in the cells and how they felt they were treated as
"Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp" by Christopher Browning is a powerful and very moving book that tells the story of Jewish survivors of the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The book is based on interviews and experiences that Browning conducted with the survivors in the 1990s, and he provides a vivid and harrowing account of their experiences and trauma. Christopher Browning’s goal in writing the novel was to capture the essence of what happened to the survivors during the Holocaust from the perspective of people who were actually there to witness and experience it. He used the words of the survivors, dates, events, and knowledge of all his research to make an accurate and reliable depiction
World War II was a brutal time. Many innocent people were tortured, and this was a very real situation for the victims held captive in the Warsaw ghetto. Individuals were starved and put in a place of devastation and depression. Contributing factors, like sickness and disease, forced human beings to figure out ways to survive. In the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, people used survival skills such as stealing and supporting the Jackboots.
Got no 'lectric lights, got no shower baths. There ain't no books, an' the food's lousy”. Prison sounds better than the areas the family is currently living in. This shows the inhumanity of the people running the camps and just how poorly they treated the individuals working there.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel gives a deeper look into what it was like to live in misery especially on pages 101 and 102. This passage shows how little they were cared about if they were even cared about at all. The prisoners were fed barely fed enough to stay alive it shows when the train transporting them to a new concentration camp and on there way citizens are throwing bread onto the bus watching them fight to the deaths for it. This passage shows the true dehumanization of the Jews during the holocaust.
In Prisoner B-3078 by Alan Gratz, Yanek is a young boy who gets captured by Nazis and brought to the holocaust. As months come he gets transported to different concentration camps daily. Yanek finds ways to survive the holocaust, using courage, determination, and being fortunate. These traits help him succeed in his main goal, survival.
Throughout “Night”, Elie Wiesel described in deep detail the everyday routine at the camp. The first barracks had a floor and a few skylights on the floor and for the next barracks they arrived to “There was no floor. A roof and four walls. Our feet sank in the mud.” Where they figured out where they would work
The story “night” by Elie Wiesel tells about his time spent at the two concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald, during the holocaust. While he was there he lost friends, he lost family and, he lost his faith in god or that was even any god at all. At Auschwitz its better and the prisoners are nicer, the prisoners are allowed to sleep. Elie doesn’t eat his first meal, a plate of thick soup, but everything is a lot better with people sitting and talking with each other.
After going through so much, many people do not have the same mindset as they did before. Being tortured and watching others being tortured changes a person’s life, especially Elie’s, his father’s, Moshe the Beadle’s, and Rabbi Eliahou’s. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, shares his own experience of going through a concentration camp, and it is clear that many things in his life changed
Not only did the camps cause physical pain it also caused mental pain. Sick patients didn't get the help they needed and deserved. Depression and anxiety was not treated correctly as well. Everyone has this pressure to be perfect but yet not to stick out. In the story there is a sense of hope and aspiration toward life going back to normal.
"Eyewitness Auschwitz" by Filip Muller is a true eyewitness account of his life in Auschwitz. Filip Muller is originally from Sered,Slovakia and was transported over to Auschwitz concentration camp. The Memoir began with Filip Muller in the Auschwitz I main camp where he was by Vacek to the cap off and cap on drill until exhaustion. (Pg. 1-3) The next location in Auschwitz that he was brought to was called the Crematorium where he would have the generators declickered; the dead dragged to ovens for cremation, coke had to be brought in; ashes had to be raked out, and finally the Crematorium had to be cleaned and disinfected.
Very few books illustrate the suffering endured in World War II concentration camps as vividly as Elie Wiesel's Night. It is a memoire that will leave disturbing mental images of famine, anti-Semitism, and death such as infants being shoveled as
Maus by Art Spiegelman is a World War II survivor written from a Jewish perspective. The book is however not representing a typical survivor tale, as Spiegelman has decided to tell it in a new, unconventional but revolutionary way; a comic strip. Even though comic strips are said to represent fiction, they can actually successfully transmit real stories and add a new dimension to it. This new dimension is generated by combining text and image. Spiegelman has decided to fully make use of this unique genre by portraying different ethnicities or nationalities in form of anthropomorphic creatures.
At the beginning of the story, the camp is introduced as a rude, ruthless, and lawless place where every man only thinks about himself. All the characters are clichés, stereotypes of humanity; they are brutes, whose attention would not be attracted even by a fight to death, as it was so ordinary. In the first paragraph
