Elie Wiesel’s Night is a harrowing account of the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II. Wiesel chronicles the numerous conflicts he faced during this time, including his struggle to maintain his faith in humanity amid the atrocities he witnessed. One of the most significant conflicts Wiesel faced was between his religious beliefs and … Read more
Everyone is born to be different. People are born with their own quirky personalities, habits, and flaws. So many people attempt to change to be what is socially acceptable, but is being the same really what people want? Dehumanization; Hitler uses this tactic during the Holocaust to strip the Jewish people of their individuality. He … Read more
The concentration camps and death camps ruled by the Nazis during WWII were littered with people who could live no longer, who had no strength to go on. These people would commit suicide by electric fence, or find a reason to get shot. Just so they could end their suffering. These victims are the ones … Read more
Envision a barrack, congested and overcrowded with the exhausted and emaciated. Even the dead and dying are your assailants as you fight through a massive wall of bodies for the chance to drawn in a breath. The living are as pitiful as the forgotten corpses they abandoned while marching through the snow, devoid of feeling … Read more
Racing their way down the ramshackle streets of an allAmerican slum, two young boys hurry home. Next-doorneighbors on the seedy side of town, the two children share fears, sorrows, and joys. Yet while one boy will attend a prestigious medical school, his friend will join the gang down the street. In their diverging paths, these … Read more
“Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners… infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel 6). During the holocaust, Hitler’s German regime shows to the world that humans are capable of cruelty of an extreme degree. Millions of people met their ends in the dirty, torturous concentration … Read more