Research Paper
January 30th, 1933 marks the date that would set forth the beginning of a Genocide with a death toll of over 11 million, which would today be known as the Holocaust. Many minorities of people like Jews, Polishes, homosexuals, and even people with disabilities were targeted as result of Hitler’s command. Many of these people were killed by gassing and mass shootings. The people who ended up getting sent off to concentration camps instead were considered lucky. What many people didn’t know and still don’t know is how the concentration camps were a mire figure of hell on earth. Only a small fraction of the people sent to concentration camps came out surviving. One of the most famous survivors of the holocaust is Elie Wiesel. It has been said he “survived the most…
Elie states “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.” (…) One can see how the conditions of the concentration camps were so bad it caused Elie to deem himself unrecognizable. Elie was sent to Auschwitz as a 13 year old boy who was at a key point of physical development in his life. An active 13 year-old boy should have around 2,600 calories a day but in Elie’s circumstances, he was having well less than 1500 calories a day. The lack of calories Elie was eating along with little sleep caused him to be extremely malnourished which plummeted his weight to a dangerous amount. Not only was Elie underweight but he was bruised and scarred all over from the constant beatings he endured. Most of the bruises were masked by the massive amount of dirt on his body due to their being no showers. One of Elie’s more permanent physical changes he underwent was being tattooed. All prisoners in concentration camps had to get a serial number which was sloppily tattooed on their arm. Elie’s was…
