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Auschwitz A Doctor's Eyewitness Discount Sparknotes

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In the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli is survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp located in Poland during World War II. He lived to revealed one of the most horrific moments of his life. Dr. Nyizsli was a Jewish doctor transported away from his home with this wife and daughter. Unfortunately, when he arrived to the camp he was forced to separate from his wife and daughter. After being clueless about his family’s faith, he immediately claims that he was a doctor and volunteered to work under the supervision of Dr. Mengele hoping he would avoid working in terrible conditions. Dr. Nyizsli officially became a member of the Sonderkommando. Members of the Sonderkommando has a better working environment compare to the others in the death camp. They get to wear comfortable clothing and eat better meals. However, in return they have to deal with special work which was helping Dr. Mengele’s terrifying experiment on Jewish human subject. The Nazi will start killing Sonderkommando every four months to erase every potential evidence. Dr. Nyizsli had experienced a lot of cruelties in the camp. He was told to kill countless innocent people with gas. If he refuses to do it, he would be punished by death. After the …show more content…

Nyiszli portray one of the most horrific event of his life. As we all know, the Holocaust was the genocide of people who were Jewish mainly. The Nazi made them work and starve them to death. It was like telling them to dig their own grave. However, Dr. Nyiszli’s story was special. He was able to witness the secret research on human subjects and survived it to write this book. The Book made it seem like Dr. Nyiszli has nine lives. As a member of the Sonderkommando, every four months the soldier will start killing all the Sonderkommandos to erase evidence and yet he survived it. Dr. Nyiszli’s life in Auschwitz was like walking around with a gun on his head, readied to be fire for the first mistake he

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He tells us the story of a 16 year old girl who unbelievably survived the gas chambers but then was shot to death. He also tells us how SS used Jews to do whatever they wanted. Dr. Nyiszli was definitely taken advantage of in many ways, but he had no choice if he wanted to survive. It’s like his life was dedicated to them. There was a part of him that knew what he was doing was wrong and selfish.

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Thousands of Jewish prisoners were killed per day in concentration camps. The way the Nazis succeeded in killing this much Jews was by creating gas chambers and crematoriums. First, in the novel night, Elie Wiesel described how he witnessed dozens of “children being thrown into the flames.” Wiesel was told when he arrived to Auschwitz that “Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney.

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One chapter describes a girl jumping out the window before the gas was released. Mrs. Nomberg- Przytyk was saddened that she had taken parts in helping Germans killing many innocent Jews, in fear of being killed. But she said it wasn’t the fear that controlled her from helping, it was the thought of them not knowing what was coming to them. She said she wanted prisoners to die carefree instead of trying to save themselves from their terrible death, then said that it was fear of her being killed that made her help the Germans. If they knew what was in store for them, they wouldn’t be able to bare the thoughts of getting burned alive.

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The holocaust was one of, if not the, worst events in history, German soldiers killed six million Jewish men, women, and children, and even more were put into concentration camps. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the time he served in concentration camps called Night. (simple) During his time in the camps he suffered many tragedies including losing his entire family. He was beaten, tested over and over for many months, and he was filled with trepidation, yet he kept going through it all.

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The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.

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The Holocaust is a destruction on a massive scale, it was significant part of today’s history because it teaches people how and where genocide can take place in. Although, the violence was targeted towards the Jewish people, non-Jewish people were also killed during this traumatizing event of world history. The memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the story about Elie’s Holocaust experiences. In his story, Elie experiences and encounters several relationships involving himself and other characters. The theme relationships are essential for physical and psychological survival are shown throughout the book when situations involving Mrs. Schächter, Stein, and Elie occur.

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When asking anyone what the Holocaust is, there is a very standard answer as to what it was. It is infamously known as the mass killings and imprisonment of Jewish people throughout most of Western Europe. What people fail to acknowledge is that there is more to the Holocaust than this “standard answer.” There have been multiple accounts of what it was like to be in the Holocaust such as the famous books The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Night by Elie Wiesel. The memoir A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal serves the same purpose as any text about this atrocity has served: to inform the public about what truly went on in the concentration camps and beyond.

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Dehumanization during the Holocaust was the most condemnable factor as to how such cruel and inhumane acts could be brushed off as mere orders, brothers and sisters became feral towards one another, and how one’s body can become so isolated from the mind. It is difficult to imagine such horrid ideas as reality, much less as history, but Elie Wiesel describes all of these gruesome acts in Night, his autobiographical account of his experience during the Holocaust. The genocide of six million human beings is far from rational, and it seems like only monsters could be capable of such an act. The Nazi’s—however dificult it is to admit—are not monsters, but people, and a person can not kill one another with good conscience. In Night, one of Ellie’s

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