In Gerhard’s speech, “I express my shame” the speaker is deeply sadden by the German’s actions during World War II. He voice how he is hurt by the evil deeds that were committed by his own race. Through persuasives strategies he wants to inform people that not everyone supported the German’s action during the war. He is ashamed that these doings can never be erased in the pages of history. His personal connections to the holocaust gives his speech a more emotional effect.
The article,“Teens Who Fought Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis describes the tragedies that happened during the Holocaust to Ben a Jewish boy, and Ben’s family and all the other Jews which millions perished at the hands of the Nazis including his parents. Ben Kamm lived during one of the most horrific and traumatizing events in world history, the Holocaust. Him and his family lived a normal life but in 1918 was when he would no longer live that life when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Warsaw and sent all Jews to the ghetto then to bring them to concentration camps killing them with gas. However, some of the kids went through holes in the walls joining partisan camps to sabotage the Nazis. Thankfully he survived though the unspeakable and unimaginable challenges
(wiesel, 112)” He is also transferred to the childrens blocks where he doesn’t think of his father or his mother anymore, only of extra soup. Once he got the Buchenwald there was a greater difference in what they
He disregards the warnings about the Nazis coming (12). Instead of listening, he still decides to stay in Sighet because he said that he was “too old” (9). Before being taken to the concentration camps, he still does not want to hide and is fabricating excuses
The differences in his character and daily life where astronomic due to this event. This occurrence changed the outcome of the rest of his life and how he would deal with different situations in the years that followed. By living though this unimaginable historic event it help him become a writer that helped the world see the Holocaust through his eyes.
The three acts of dehumanization that were committed were that they were forced out of their towns, separated from their families, and forced to walk miles and miles in freezing cold weather. It amazes me how a fifteen year old boy was able to survive all of these terrible things that have happened to him and many others during the Holocaust. We should learn from these terrible things to make sure that it never happens
Elie Wiesel was a victim in the holocaust, and was one of the few survivors. He was sent in the concentration camp and so was all the other jews in Germany. He was sent to the camp called Auschuitz with his father, mother, and sister. Elie Wiesel was 15 years old when he got sent to the concentration camp in Auschuitz. He wrote a speech that talks about his life and the other people in the camps even the dead.
He shares personal experiences from his past, “A young Jewish boy from…Carpathian Mountains woke up…eternal infamy called Buchenwald.” Who better to relay a message of caring and getting involved, than someone who maintained his character and used his experiences to educate others through his writings and speeches. One could have been transformed to preach hate and the ability to prevent such experiences for others. Wiesel tugs at the audience’s
He shared the story of his experience and the stories of others who had and had not survived the terrible time. The inhumanity that children experienced was appalling and makes most sick when considering that humans could do that to another human being. During the Holocaust, children were very vulnerable to death and disease. Around 1.5 million child deaths were estimated
Elie Wiesel's behavior, faith, attitude, and personality all changed whilst being in these camps; he went through traumatic events; while just a teenager.
Elie Wiesel loses his innocence during his time in the Holocaust from events detailing the brutality of man. Elie detailed his life as a young adolescent boy at the beginning of his memoir, and it exemplified a nice and easy life not full of worry. However, when he gets sent on his journey through the concentration camps, it would be clear
Wiesel and his father were sent to several different camps and suffered a great deal before their nightmare was ended. In the novel, many people living in the concentration camps suffered from emotional death because they had to watch innocent people die, were forced to use every ounce of their energy to endure horrific conditions, and had begun to question whether it was better to live or die. First,
This in turn causes them to “see violence as a way to settle disputes, and as adults they are more likely to abuse their own children (“Abuse and Abusive behavior”).” This shows how the cycle of abuse would continue from the abuser to the abused. In the camps, this was similar to how the Jews began to feel degraded and less of the humans that the Germans were, because of the way they were treated. In Night, Wiesel mentions how pipels, young boys studying under someone, became crueler than the actual adults in the camp because of the abusive environment that they grew up in(Wiesel 60). He even overheard a pipel once say to his crying father, “If you don’t stop crying at once I shan’t bring you any more bread.
He wanted to survive. Finally, in the end, it is more than survival that haunts him it’s the death and the indifference. The death of his family, specifically at the end at the death of his father, the death of his dreams. Never again would he look at the world as a good place, rather he will forever see the evil that it is capable of and be haunted by the shadows that cry from the grounds of Auschwitz.
Small children that have only been in the world for so little thought most of their future was going to be in a concentration camp. Which leads to Wiesel to keep remembering the children. Another statement by Wiesel is, “You, who never lived under a sky of blood, will never know what it is like” (Wiesel 18). Here Wiesel shows how tormented he is. Wiesel witnessed the damage caused by the Nazis.
