... fell if put into a situation such as Elie. In Elie Wiesel's autobiography Night, Wiesel explains the dehumanization of Eliezer, his family, and his fellow Jews throughout World War II. Dehumanization is the striping of human qualities. When reading Night you get a first-hand experience of what this actually was. When ... , or any objects of value ". Later they were forced to sit in crowded wagons that had no space to move about in. A German officer told the Jews, " ˜there are eighty of you in this wagon,' added the German officer. ˜If anyone is missing, you'll all be shot, like dogs ......

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... to a single group of people in the history of the world. One man's hate turned into a whole country's determination to wipe out all of the Jews and create a more perfect race. It is important not to forget the tragic events that took place during the Holocaust. It is events such as this ... This came as a hard blow to the Jewish people. Many could not afford to feed their families or pay rent for their homes. In time, many Jews were captured by the Germans, stripped of all their personal belongings, and sent in packed trains into the Nazi concentration camps where many of them spent the r...

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... was even a movie based on Oskar Schindler called Schindler's List. There are several books about him, many were even written by some of the Jews he saved themselves. EPIC HERO ELEMENTS IN THE LIFE OF OSCAR SCHINDLER Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwitlau, which is now part ... going to labor or death camps. He risked his life for people he has never even met. Schindler received word that a train of evacuated Jews from Golezow camp was stranded in the nearby city of Svitavy. As he has done twice before, Schindler pulled some strings at the top and ... burial. Also, the a...

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... is something which still haunts people today. It is a memory that will continue to burn into our minds. The cause of the holocaust is that Hitler blamed Jews for the start of World War two. For this Jew were rounded up and brought to a Nazi concentration camp. It was Hitler's "final solution." They ... were unable to move. The cattle cars brought them to camps. Many captives died along the way from starvation and asphyxiation. Once at the camps the Jews were divided into two groups. Those who were healthy enough to do labor were kept alive in one group. The second group included babies, c...

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... every car was put in charge of making sure that no one escaped and if anyone did escape the person in charge would be shot. Then the Jews had to give all their gold, silver and watches to the German Officer. Anyone who was caught hiding their possessions were shot on the spot. People ... the cattle car and didn't care who was around. They were behaving exactly like animals and exactly the way the Nazis wanted them to act. The Jews around them just acted like nothing was happening and they didn't want to face the painful truth. Fifteen year old Elie was witnessing all these horrible thing...

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... a person human: awareness of time, the ability to communicate, the ability to think and a persons self-awareness. The Germans are taking away the Jews future; all that matters to the prisoners is how to survive the now, their slang for never is: morgen fruh, tomorrow morning. From the moment ... that prisoners entered Auschwitz the campaign began of transforming men into beasts, the Germans immediately begin to use time as a means to take away the Jews humanity. The prisoners were herded into a large room to wait with the only means to track time is dripping polluted water unsuitable to...

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... to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. A memorial in the Park of Heroes praises him as the Savior of more than 1,200 Jews! Today there are more than 6,000 descendants of Schindler`s Jews living in the USA and Europe, and many in Israel. Before the Second World War, the Jewish population of Poland was 3.5 million ... started by earning millions of German marks through exploitation of slave workers and ended by spending his last pfennig and risking his life to save "his" 1,200 Schindler Jews from Hitler's death camps? Oscar Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908, in Zwittau in Czechoslovak...

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... dictator and his Nazi Party created a plan called "The Final Solution." The plan was to get rid of all of the nine million European Jews. He was very close in achieving their goal. The Final Solution took place during World War II. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came ... when the Nazis were defeated by the allied powers. Eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of the Jews who lived in Europe. North America, Europe, and some of Asia and Africa were involved with the Holocaust. This event wil...

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... book by describing the appearance, environment, and accent/dialogue. Elie talked about Auschwitz's first appearance seem some what good. The environment of concentration camp was brutal and harsh. All the Jews in the concentration camps had different accents in their languages. (Body 2) Foreshadowing is when you see the future with signs or feelings. Elie Weisel tells how people like Madame Schaister ... and Moische the Beadle foreshadow what was going to be of the Jews. Madame Schaister foreshadowed fire and furnaces, which later appeared as cremation machine. Moische the Beadle warned...

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... of vivid imagery and truth, about the genocide of his own people. Elie witnesses the starvation, brutal beating, and eventual death of his friends, family, and fellow Jews. Wiesel, himself, survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and Gleiwitz, all German concentration camps, where atrocities such as cremation and murder hung thickly in the air like a ... village in 1944. One of the main topics in this book is how Elie, a boy of strong religious faith, along with many of his fellow jews, lose their faith in God due to the horrific effects of the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel lived his ea...

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... for him. He is going against the majority of the population by doing so, but he really doesn't care. He doesn't see the Jews as anything less than human beings. When he looks at them, he sees regular, ordinary people. Most of the people see something entirely ... their life. They see someone who's life no longer is worth saving. They see that in the face of a Jew, and they decide that all Jews should be killed because of it. Schindler does everything in his power to convince the German people otherwise, but to no prevail. Then, he figures put ... that instead, he should take matters int...

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... the family Tzipora- forth born; sister of Elie Page 3: Elie- formally introduced here as the narrator Page 4: Moshe the Beadle- returns after himself and other jews from the town were taken away by the Hungarian Police and then crossed into Polish Territory Malka- a girl that took three days to die, after taken the ... Hungarian Police Hungarian Police- took the jews by train to a place where they dug there own graves and stood in front of them to be shot and left for dead Tobias- the town's ... . Page 10: Stern- a former tradesman who became a police man, he came to get Elie's father to...

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... , many of which were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps for extermination. Between 1940 and 1943, the German's systematically participated in the mass deportation of many of the Polish Jews, and the population of the Warsaw Ghetto decreased considerably. The same could be seen through out much of occupied Europe, and was integrated into a view of the transformation of many ... exchange for what can be accepted or at least socialized. The link between the past and present, then, in regards to the death marches and the mass extermination of the Jews often underplays the leve...

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... little Jewish Republic. They appointed Jewish Council, a Jewish police, a office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department, and a whole government machinery. A lot of the Jews figured that they would remain in this ghetto until the war was over. Well they were wrong. A couple of days later, all the ... Jews were moved out the Ghettto and onto cattle cars. When the Jews arrived in Auschwitz they did not even fear for their lives. They wanted to believe so bad that everything was going to ... be getting out here. There was a labor camp. Conditions were good. Familie...

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... eyes Elie was very confused and didn't know what was going on, he was just following his father. One day, after coming back from the warehouse where the jews were forced to work, Elie walked in back of a building were he heard noises coming from a little room. He went up and saw a Kapo named Idek ... to prove to himself that he can over power the Nazi's mentally. After all this time being treated like animals, Elie had to stand up for his fellow jews and give a message to the Nazi's: and that message was they were all strong mentally. By not crying, I think Elie gain respect. He might tu...

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... reluctant to believe him. Another example of foreshadowing occurs when a woman riding in the same cattle car as Wiesel further implies the horrible fate of many Jews. Secondly, Wiesel's use of similes is superb. Before being deported from Sighet, Wiesel's simile use explains the disbelief within the small town. Lastly, Wiesel ... people of Sighet, Moshe the Beadle. When Moshe is expelled, and then returns, the truth begins to emerge of what really happens when people are expelled. "Jews, listen to me. It's all I ask of you. I don't want money or pity. Only listen to me I wanted to come b...

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... . Elie tells his dad that he should consider moving to Palestine, but by the time they know the Germans arrive to Sighet and take all the Jews. Throughout the book Elie is moved from Auschwitz to Birkenau, then to Buna then to Gleiwitz and finally ends in Buchenwald, where the United States Third ... Army free the prisoners. Themes The main theme is the horror that comes out from extreme prejudice. Since Hitler, hated Jews he ordered for them to be imprisoned, tortured and killed in the worse ways possible to mankind. Elie is taken and has to go through cruel treatment. ... faith in God...

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... them. No matter what happened in the novel, almost all of the characters cherished, questioned, and prayed for his help to survive. No matter where the Jews were they would still follow their religion, even if it were not the best time. From the start of the deporting of the ... still prayed and worshipped God. "Oh God, Lord of the Universe, take pity upon us in Thy great mercy.."(Wiesel 17). As the Jews of Sighet were moved into the ghettos, they could only take what they could carry on their back. They left everything important and valuable in life behind, ... taking only clothes, fo...

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... towards others. The first example of inhumanity in the novel is when Moshe the Beadle witnesses horrible atrocities when he and the other foreign Jews were expelled from the town, Sighet. The soldiers forced the Jews to dig their own graves, and they were shot and killed. Miraculously, Moshe was able to escape, so he returned to Sighet to ... Nazis were, even to innocent babies. Unfortunately, the townspeople did not believe Moshe's story because it was unthinkable to commit such heinous crimes against humanity. This is before the Jews of Sighet knew what lie ahead. In addition, when Eli...

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... of the temple. (1)" Elie practices Judaism every day by going to the synagogue where he prays. Elie first sees the crematories and the ditches that were deaths to so many Jews. "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless his name? The eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-powerful and Terrible ... hand (32)" When the Nazis tell him to do something, then it"d to be done even if it violates his humanity. The Nazi's not only handles the Jews dead bodies like animals, but also the other prisoners don't think much of the dead bodies either. ""Throw out all the dead! ...

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2-1-03 Night Night Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, explains in his book the awful and horrific ways that Jews were treated during the Holocaust. The book narrated by Eliezer. Eliezer is a young Jewish teenager who is from Sighet in Hungarian. Eliezer's instructor of Jewish ... 't get killed and returns to his home town to warn the locals of the Nazi's plan to kill all the Jews. Nobody listens to Moshe and decides to stick around. In spring of 1944, the Jews of Eliezer's town is forced to stay in Sighet in ghettos. They are eventually put onto cattle cars and forced to ... in a factory. The ...

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... the caretaker, and in time becomes Elie's spiritual mentor. Moshe the Beadle is sent off in cattle trains with other Jews soon after, and when he returns, he tells of the horrors that occurred. The Jews of Sighest, including Elie, don't believe his stories of the happenings while under the watch of the German police, ... see this as a threat. Even when the ghettos went up in the center of town, they were unaware of their future. Before long, some of the Jews are deported, while other families like Elie's where to be sent later. Eventually Elie and his family are sent in the cattle wagons...

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... be just "Work Camps". The camp I am writing of is Bergen-Belsen. Many think the only people in these camps were the Jews. Yes, they did make up the majority of the people there, but there were also non-Jews. These people found themselves being put in these camps not only because of their race but because some were political prisoners, homosexuals ... , a neutrals camp, a Hungarian camp, and a tent camp. The detention camp held prisoners from other camps to construct Bergen-Belsen. The special camp was for Jews with papers from foreign countries. The "star" camp was for the Dutch Jews, be...

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... life into one long night seven times over" (Weisel 34). "Night," by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir about a boy's experience in a concentration camp. The Jews were stripped of everything they had; they were dehumanized. In the matter of a couple weeks, life as they knew it came to halt. It did not matter whether ... equalizer across social and economic statuses, which created empathy among people of different classes. The first to be transported were the foreign Jews. Most of the foreigners were dirt poor, most notably, Moishe the Beadle. The only reason for Moishe the Beadle's return is to wa...

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... didn't fit in were shot. Historians calculate that well over 2 million individuals were involved in these mass shootings. The SS liquidated approximately 55,000 Jews in just ten weeks. The corpses of the dead victims would lie in the streets for days drawing attention. The German government knew that even though over ... 75 000 Jews had been exterminated this was not the solution to the Jewish problem. More had to be killed more quickly. To organize the master Arian race ... -workers. Although I know that they weren't faced with many options. If they rebelled against the Nazi governmen...

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