People have different definitions but my definition is different traits that makes up a person and makes them unique. In the book Elie started off as a spirited boy who felt very strong about his religion and he would do anything for his family. Schindler starts as an unpromising adult who had a reputation for cheating and lying. Throughout these stories they end up kind switching places when it come to humanity.
Black and white. That’s how you were told to see, that’s how life was set, eventually though things will change. Oskar Schindler and Elie Wiesel were both on different sides but in many ways they were similar. Living becomes heavy, becomes hard but you must persevere. Elie Wiesel was put on the side of the victim he was hurt and treated like nothing whilst Oskar Schindler was treated like a king.
Elie was a normal teenage boy before the holocaust. He was well fed and got plenty of sleep and had nice things. Throughout the holocaust
He made it out alive. The choiceless choices and being alongside his father helped Elie greatly in this process. If he did not make the choices he did in camp, he would not have made it out alive. By telling the SS officer that he was eighteen, he was not sent to the crematorium to die. Even though choosing to work meant he had to undergo undeniably hard conditions, he did it and made it through.
Throughout the advocacy of Elie Wiesel he has had a profound affect on peoples perception of the Holocaust and hatred. Elie at the young age of 15 was deported by the Hungarian Gendarmerie, the German SS, and police from Sighet, Romania to his first concentration camp. In these death camps, Elie, witnessed first hand how terrible the Holocaust was. He was
Oskar Schindler was one of the many heroes during the Holocaust. He was an average businessman looking for profit who started as a Nazi supporter. Oskar ended up saving Jews during the Holocaust by essentially hiding them in plain site. Oskar Schindler had a busy life and was the reason some Jews survived to live on passed the Holocaust. Oskar was born on April 28, 1908 in the city of Svitavy.
Elie: Throughout the book we see Elie change from a relatively normal teenage school boy and into a emotionally hardened young man who has become so accustomed to death that he rarely gives it a second thought, even if the person dying was a friend . This change took place because of the tortuous conditions that the Nazi´s subjected him to and that he lost so many family members and friends along the way. My passage shows Elie at a time when he is just starting his journey, yet you can tell that the concentration camps and the Nazi´s have already had a very serious effect on him. ¨He must have died, trampled under the feet if the thousands of men who followed us.
From Auschwitz, the two are moves to two other camps, and participate in a death marth to Buchenwald. As Elie spends more time in the camps, he becomes angry and resentful, toward the camp itself, as well as his father for falling ill and not being able to care for him. In Buchenwald, his father dies, from illness and a beating from the SS, only three months from liberation. As the story progresses, Elie also begins to lose sight of his faith, becoming bitter, and stating “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel, 32). Being subject to the cruel and continuous torture of the Holocaust left Elie
Throughout Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg, Oskar Schindler’s character has changed drastically. At the beginning of World War II, Schindler was a womanizing, selfish and manipulative man. After seeing the process that he watched the Jews go through, he realizes the way the Nazis have treated them is unacceptable. Towards the end of the war Schindler has grown due to the experiences he has been through. These experiences have made him a decent, unselfish, and manipulative man.
When Elie is sent to concentration camp, he goes through a lot of emotions. At first he is in denial that human beings could do such cruel things to other people. This stage however is short lived because very suddenly he must adapt to the harsh environment around him. Although eventually the atmosphere takes him over.
Eventually, his father died in Buchenwald after he was beaten to death. Just three months later Elie was liberated from Buchenwald by Allied troops in 1945 but unfortunately his mother Sarah and his younger
Elie was held captive in concentration camps from 1944-1945. During his time in the concentration camps, he became grateful for what he had, overcame countless obstacles, and more importantly kept fighting until he was free. [The Holocaust is very important to learn about because it can teach you some important life lessons.] You should always be grateful for what you have, no matter what the circumstances are. This lesson can be learned when Elie says, “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more”(109).
Elie’s living conditions were awful, he suffered through poverty, dirty clothes, no sleep, and no food. The setting is described as “Comrades, you are now in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Ahead of you lies a long road paved with suffering…” (41). Everything about the concentration camp was dangerous, Elie having to live and work in these conditions was determined by not only him but others around him. If the living conditions weren’t already the worst part of everything, Elie had to also deal with the harsh treatment from the S.S officers.
After the war was over, Elie found out that his two older sisters had both survived Auschwitz, so they all met up for a reunion and to grieve their lost loved ones (Britannica). These events are what caused Elie to become the man that he was, a hero. After surviving Auschwitz, Elie decided to start a new life, so he moved to the United States. He lived in New York and thrived in his new life. Elie Wiesel was a powerful man, not because of the strength of his bones, but because of the strength of his heart and mind.
Who would think that a gambling, drinking, impartial person would save the lives of 1,100 Jews in the Holocaust? No one. Such a person was like this and saved hundreds of Jews. Oskar Schindler wasn’t recognized until the 1980s, when a novel and movie highlighted his actions during the genocide. Oskar Schindler destroyed assumptions about bystanders during WW2, hopefully many will learn from his story so that they can change the future.
