His family sent him with other family members because they thought it was safer. The day after he arrived, he was put in trucks with others and sent to Dachau, a concentration camp.
The journey to Buchenwald fatally weakened Eliezer’s father, Wiesel describes his father as seeming at last to have “given in to death”. Eliezer’s father is ill with dysentery, doctors will not treat him, and the prisoners whose beds surround Eliezer’s father’s bed steal his food and beat him. All of this causes Eliezer stress, he is guilty about his father and doesn’t know whether to help him, or leave him and focus on his own survival. The head block reminded Wiesel that he was at a concentration camp and that in order to survive, he had to think of only himself and leave his father behind. On the morning of January 29th, 1945, Eliezer discovers that his father in not in his bed.
The Train Was on Time by Hendrick Boll centers around Andreas, a German soldier who was sent to fight in the Eastern front nearing the end of World War 2. During his travels, Andreas thoughts and his eavesdropping of conversations between other German soldiers in the train car give insight to certain processes that were occurring during the war. The dialogues in the story give us information on Nazi Germany and how it followed the themes of total war such as using mass propaganda, racial ideology and mass mobilization. One of the first instances of German propaganda in the novel begins with Andreas overhearing a debate between four German soldiers on the state of the war.
Being labeled as something other than his name breaks down his humanity because he is now being treated like an animal. As soon as the Red Army comes closer to Wiesel’s current camp, Buna, the SS officers pack everything up and force the prisoners to march. When the officers made them increase their pace, one of them shouted, “‘Faster, you filthy dogs!’ We were no longer marching. We were running.
(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
“Personal Identity v. Racial Identity” Passing by Nella Larsen is the story of a woman, Clare, who is Black, but is able to “pass” for white. She chooses to dwell in white society, even going as far as marrying a racist white man who does not know her heritage. Clare’s foil is Irene, her childhood best friend. When they reconnect, Clare uses Irene as her way into Black culture and society, even though she chose to leave it behind. Irene resists Clare’s friendship, but eventually caves in to Clare’s “seduction”.
Joseph Bernardo Professor Goldfeather English Composition 102 24 April 2024 Rough Draft (Title) It's often hard to be a part of two different communities. For example, you can’t support both the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Society suggests you should stick to one team. Who says that, where is that rule written?
Him and everyone else living in the camps are being treated as lesser and their identities are taken away by the SS officers that run the camps. After catching Idek, one of the Kapos of the camp, with “a young Polish girl, half naked, on a straw mat,” Wiesel laughs and is seen by Idek who threatens him (57). Idek follows up on his word and Wiesel is called forward and given orders to “Lie down,” on a crate “On [his] belly,” and gets whipped (57). He goes on to write that “[He] obeyed,” that “[He] no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip,” and that “Only the first one really hurt,” (57). Wiesel has been treated as lesser to the point where even he believes that he is no longer a human being.
They take away their clothes and belongings, suddenly making them all equals. With this they lose their masculinity as well. After being transferred from Auschwitz II to Auschwitz I, Elie Wiesel acquires a new identity. He states, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (42).
The journey to Auschwitz is an ongoing nightmare. It is reality, and there is no way of escape. " There are eighty of you in the car", the German officer added. "If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs.
After some time, he is moved to another camp on another train. This train ride was even worse than the last and several people died. Many days later he arrives at Buna in the biting cold. This camp is much more strenuous on Wiesel and his father than the previous one and they suffer greatly. Eventually, some higher-up German officers come to test the prisoners and make sure they are still fit enough for work, and his father does not pass and he will be “moved to another camp” (he will be killed).
He understands that his choice to lie about his age puts him in a position where he is forced to do hard labor work. Wiesel’s options of miserable days of hard labor or death demonstrates how this choiceless choice is not with a welcomed outcome, but to survive he must lie accordingly in order to avoid certain death at the crematorium. Another profound choiceless choice that Weisel considers is for him and his father to leave the camp after they hear that the camp is evacuating due to the Red Army moving closer. Weisel is a part of a small group of people who can stay at the camp since they are in the hospital. Weisel is in the hospital due to a foot injury that has to be operated on.
However, as he experiences the horrors of the Holocaust, his beliefs and identity are tested in unimaginable ways. Elie was taken by Gestapo's,
" (26 ) . Elie was leaning quickly that if he was not to obey orders , he would be violently assaulted . Although Elie was not abused himself , after witnessing a terrified woman receive brutal consequences , he fears it will likely happen to him . Once the truck arrives at the first destination , Elie is ordered to leave the vehicle . At this point , Elie has arrived at the concentration camp named 'Birkenau . '
His whole family was deprived of their belongings, and separated from each other, and he was separated from his mother and sisters forever. They were taken from their home to a ghetto, and from there to different concentration camp. The things
