In the book “I Had Lived A Thousand Years” by Livia Bitton-Jackson talks about Jews being tortured by the Germans. The Germans hate the Jews because they blame the Jews for losing World War 1. Ellie and her family were sent to concentration camps where they face their nightmares and are separated by the Germans. They were suffering, but were afraid to run away.
All But My Life is a memoir written by Gerda Weissmann Klein. This memoir tells about her experiences during World War Two. Her childhood was full of happiness growing up with her Jewish family. This memoir starts two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
Felicia Carmelly, currently age 87, is one of the few Holocaust survivors who remains alive today. Her story is riveting and immensely detailed; consequently, it deserves to be remembered for eternity. Being generally knowledgable about the Holocaust is one perspective, however, reading and understanding Felicia’s point of view is much different. The thoroughly haunting events that transpired in Transnistria, orchestrated through the eyes of Carmelly herself, were heart-wrenching to say the least. Before the Holocaust began, Felicia was living a very structured and fairly pampered lifestyle in Dorna, Romania, as an only child.
In the documentary, One Survivor Remembers, Gerda Weissmann recalls her miraculous survival of the Nazi concentration camps. Throughout her survival, Gerda Weissman shows personality traits of courage, perseverance, and compassion. When Gerda Weissmann was fifteen years old Germany seized control over Poland and all Jewish Poles were confined to small living quarters of their houses. Gerda Weissmann’s ability to keep calm and go on living in that situation showed true bravery because a girl her age would surely panic and develop a negative personality. Gerda Weissmann is possibly most courageous when she separated from her family and has to go to Dulag transit camp, while the rest of her family is sent to Auschwitz.
Many people have learned about the Holocaust throughout the years, but learning about it from a primary source is a whole different experience. A scary journey that turned out to be the Holocaust has been told by two individuals that survived. These two stories tell the reader what life was like and what they went through. Even though the conditions were terrible, both Eli and Lina were able to survive and break away through fear, horrendous experiences, and hope that lead them to surviving and leaving people they cared about behind.
In the memoir All But My Life, Gerda Weissman Klein, a survivor of the Holocaust, shares her story from before the Holocaust started to when it ended. In her memoir, she shares significant stories such as her times in the camps and moments where she was at her weakest. Gerda shares lots of events in her memoir that changed her life, a huge turning point and a key event in Gerda's life is when she is separated from her family. Gerda and her family were forced into a Jewish ghetto and ordered to work for the German war effort, it wasn't long until all the Jewish people were told they would move out of town and that was the day Gerda was separated from her mom and dad. This affected Gerda greatly because she was now left alone to cope with the
During the time of the Holocaust, many human rights were violated. Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the holocaust, and has written the book titled Night describing what life was like for him and others during the harsh time. His book has become very popular because is shows awareness of how bad the times were. Wiesel says, “The SS officers were doing the selection: the weak to the left; those who walked well, to the right.” (Page 96)
Gerda Weissmann Klein, had to become the man of the house during the times of the holocuast considering the many family issues that had forced her to do so. As a young teenager, she and her Jewish family were forced into the life/ages of the holocuast. They suffered many challenges and had to many opportunities to deport from the country. The strong family choses to risk it and stay together while not knowing whats to come out of it. In Gerda Weissmann Klein’s memoir, All But My Life Gerda Weismann Klein, a daughter, and brother to a family during the holocaust, realized that she is now having many issues with the family status and is now becoming “the man of the house”.
Fight For Survival There have been many defining moments in history that highlight the brutality that people inflict on one another. One of these moments was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrific event that affected many Jewish families in the 1930s and 1940s. This event is still talked about to this day and continues to be shocking to many people because of the level of cruelty people endured throughout it. In his autobiography, Eliezer, a young Jewish boy who was a victim of the Holocaust, illustrates his personal experience in concentration camps.
But in Wiesel’s position, there was “guilt and mourning with their imprisonment in the concentration camp” like many others around because watching family and friends become weak, give up, or die was very hard (Hirsch 18). However, because of how scary the situation is, it showed the fragility of society and the impact that extreme circumstances can have on people, even to the extent that they separate themselves from those they care about and love. In today’s world, society accommodates the weak and does everything possible to protect them. But what if today’s society is forced into primitive times? This thought can be seen frequently during the Holocaust.
Many examples of the worst, but also the best of people spring forth from the events that were the Holocaust. One can look back at these events for examples of intense human emotion and suffering. Although these dark times degraded and beat the human spirit, survivors from the Holocaust still find hope and look for ways to improve society and look selflessly for ways to alleviate the suffering of others. Speaking first to the United States government, and then to individuals all around the world, Wiesel, a respected survivor of the Holocaust, hopes to raise awareness to the suffering of many victims in many circumstances, and to encourage the United States and its government to stay away from the trap of indifference. Wiesel effectively employs
“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences” (Wiesel 114). The Holocaust caused many hardships for different groups of people. One way this is demonstrated in the literature department is through Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. While some may argue that topics surrounding Night and the Holocaust are too heavy, it is important to learn about the struggle that daily life in the camps pressed on people, how unethical the boxcar and cattle cars treated everyone, and the negative impact Dr. Mengele (The Angel of Death) had on the prisoners inside the camps. One way the Holocaust affected people was the daily life in the camps.
The first thing that Nazi guards did at the concentration camps was take away the identities of these poor, innocent people. During the Holocaust, Jews were mistreated by physical abuse and starvation. Through Eliezer’s harrowing journey, Weisel highlights the degrading effects of dehumanization on both victims and perpetrators, underscoring the importance of empathy, dignity, and resistance in the face of
This book shows how the Holocaust should be taught and not be forgotten, due to it being a prime example of human impureness. Humans learn off trial and error, how the Jewish population was affected, decrease in moral, and the unsettled tension are prime examples of such mistakes. The Jewish population was in jeopardy, therefore other races in the world are at risk of genocide as well and must take this event as a warning of what could happen. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, there was a room filled with shoes.
Expository Report “We must do something, we can’t let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse, we must revolt”. These are the words from many men surrounding Elie Wiesel as he entered Auschwitz, calling out for rebellious toward the Germans harsh conditions. Of course they had no idea what they were getting themselves into, many thought that there was nothing wrong until boarding the cattle train that would send them off to their final resting place. Life during the holocaust was torturous to say the least, so much so that some 6,000,000 lives were taken during this time in Jewish descent alone. People of the Jewish descent did not have it easy; they either were forced out of their homes into concentration camps, or they would hide out only to be found and killed of they remained in their settlements.
