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The Tatooist Of Auschwitz Sparknotes

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The Holocaust is known for being one of the most horrific tragedies in history. What is worse is that it happened less than a hundred years ago. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is an example of what went on inside Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a group of concentration camps made during the Holocaust with the goal of purifying the German bloodline by exterminating Jews and other groups considered “lesser” by the Nazi party. The story is about a Slovak Jew named Lale Sokolov that gets transported to Auschwitz and soon becomes the tattooist of the prisoners. There, he meets Gita, a young Jewish girl who was transported by the SS to Auschwitz and he soon falls in love. The story is based on a true story in many ways, including Josef Mengele, …show more content…

Almost one million Jews died inside the camp, either from gas chambers, starvation, illness, torture, and much more. “It is estimated that the SS and police deported at least 1.3 million people to the Auschwitz camp complex between 1940 and 1945” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). In the book, Lale is tasked with the job of tattooing new prisoners that were imported almost every day. Some prisoners didn’t even get numbers, they were instead sent directly to the gas chambers. The ones that did receive numbers and tattoos weren’t much luckier, for which they were put into forced labor and often died of starvation or other …show more content…

Less than 50% of the worldwide jewish population practiced their religion. But even inside the camp they kept their faith. Towards the beginning of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lale and many others were being transported to Auschwitz. There, he said, “We stand in shit but let us not drown in it” (Morris) which represented that in the bad times they had to persevere through.“When the Nazi regime and its collaborators applied greater pressure, Jewish people had fewer opportunities to maintain and observe religious traditions” (Jewish Religious Life). It was hard for the victims of the Holocaust, and if they didn’t fight through those horrible times, they wouldn’t be here

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Elie Wiesel describe the horrors of Auschwitz in his acclaimed book Night. So does every other book written about Auschwitz. They all proclaim the distress they encountered, the SS guards, the gas chambers, the crematory, the barracks, the death, hopelessness, and fear. The authors tell us what happened, but we will really never understand the true terrors that occurred. However, Night is written unfiltered.

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The memoir written by Elie Wiesel, Night, is illustrating the Holocaust, the even which caused the death of over 6 million Jews. Auschwitz, the concentration camps, is responsible for over 1 million of the deaths. In the memoir Night, Wiesel uses the symbolism of fire, and silence to clearly communicate to the readers that the Holocaust was a catastrophic and calamitous event, and that children should never be involved in warfare. Elie Wiesel enters Auschwitz at the age of 15, and witnesses’ horrific events as a prisoner in Auschwitz, including the deaths of numerous children, and the beating and death of his own father. All these inhumane things were done just because Adolf Hitler wanted to cleanse the German society of the Jews.

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In the book The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Marris, the main character Lale is offered a powerful role of tattooing the new prisoners. This job gave him lots of privileges. Lale shows in his actions that by helping and supporting each other, it will help you get through hard times. After all of these prisoners left their families and friends during the Holocaust, they got through this dreadful time by making new relationships. Without each other's support, the prisoners would have lost hope and felt alone in their fight to survive.

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This shows that even though the people in the holocaust are going through hard times they still have beliefs in god which motivates them to keep

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The Life of a Jews Have you ever been in a tough situation where you were risking your own life for another? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he talks about how he was taken by the Nazis and his experience throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a young man at the time and barely made it out alive while others weren’t so fortunate as him. If you had experienced the Holocaust yourself, you probably would have experienced things such as fear, camaraderie, and complacence. Fear is the unpleasant emotion of believing that someone or something is dangerous.

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However, suffering does not always lead to Jews banding together and helping each other. In fact, for many Jews suffering reveals a darker side of themselves. As shown throughout Night, the Atrocities the Germans commit during the Holocaust causes many Jews to experience suffering they have never seen before. And when the Jews face suffering, they become cruel and unfair. The Germans force Wiesel and his fellow Jews on to a death march and during the death march one Jewish son leaves his own father to die so he could “free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” (91).

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It’s hard to believe what atrocities have been committed throughout the course of history; however, it’s important to learn about them. World War II was an especially dark time in history when many types of people were killed by Nazi Germany. “Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography in which Elie recounts his terrible experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Elie tells what horrors he had to endure as a Jew and how the Nazis made him lose his sense of being, as well as making him almost lose his faith. Prisoners in the camp were constantly being killed and burned in the crematorium and everyone who was not able to work either died by themselves or died at the hands of the SS guards.

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.” - Eliezre Wiesel. Have you ever really thought about the Holocaust and how it affected the Jewish population? What about how badly they suffered for almost six years at labor camps? You probably never really asked yourself what they had to endure to survive, and yet, millions of Jews still died.

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is a powerful novel based on the true story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who was forced to work as the tattooist in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust. The book tells the story of Lale's survival and his love affair with Gita, another Jewish prisoner in the camp. Morris's book is a haunting and heart-wrenching portrayal of the horrors of the Holocaust and the resilience of the human spirit. The book begins in 1942 when Lale Sokolov is transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Night is the most beautiful book i have ever read while being educational and interesting, and in the following lines you’ll learn exactly why. I’ve always knew about life being hard in concentration camps but “Night” smack the readers with the reality of it all. After reading this i’ve learned that all jewish men and women sent to work camps had tattoos with their numbers, so not only were they treated awfully but their names were also completely neglected. So when calling them they would not say things like “hey Roger how was your day” but instead “45567 fetch me a cup of water”. I think that this was a complete violation of rights.

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The mass genocide of the Jewish population during the holocaust broke down an entire generation of people who shared the same faith, but love still prevailed. In the novel by Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lale, and Gita face and overcome many obstacles that hinder their chances of surviving the concentration camps. This true story focuses on Lale and Gita who are both Slovakian Jews who were transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau around the same time. Lale is put to work as the Tätowierer (German for tattooist) and had to permanently mark his fellow prisoners. Lale used his privileged position as the tattooer and risked his life to exchange jewels and money for food to help keep his fellow prisoners alive.

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The Soviet Army Also discovered mounds of corpses, hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing, shoes, and seven tons of human hair shaved from heads of prisoners. According to most estimates between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the one of the worst concentration camps during World War II. The Auschwitz complexes were the biggest concentration camps and death camps during World War II. Why the Nazis ordered destruction of the Jews is still unknown.

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Some people think their life is hard but compared to the ways the jews were treated during the Holocaust their situation would not even come close. Concentration camps play a very important role in the Holocaust. There were two different kind that the Holocaust survivor

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These survivors who experienced this event, have been scarred for the rest of their life. We can listen to their stories but we can’t imagine and experienced what they have gone through. For example, Szymon Binke, Hilma Geffen, and Baker Ella, were the survivors of the Holocaust. Szymon Binke was born in 1931 in Poland, his family moved to the city after the Nazi’s invasion. Nazis deported his family to Auschwitz where his mother and sister were gassed, while, Szymon was placed in Kinder block but after sometime he ran away to meet his family in Auschwitz.

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In total, approximately 1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. The new arrivals at Auschwitz underwent selection. The SS staff determined the majority to be unfit for forced labor and sent them immediately to the gas chambers, which were disguised as shower installations to mislead the victims. For those that do not know, the SS are elite organization within the Nazi party that served as Hitler 's personal guard and included police units and special forces, carrying out mass killings of civilians and overseeing concentration

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