...It never feels good to be treated as less than a human. However, imagine how it would feel to be treated like this everyday for years. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, Elie talks about how he and other people were treated. During the Holocaust, Jewish prisoners were dehumanized by being stripped of their identity, being treated cruelly, and having their homes, family, and friends taken away from them. First, Jews were dehumanized during the Holocaust by being stripped of their identity. Before leaving the ghetto, the Jews were told that they could bring a small bag with their personal belongings. However, once they got off the wagon at the concentration camp, they were forced to leave all their belongings on the wagon. Then, they were forced to strip down to complete nakedness and had to all wear the same clothing. They also had to get call the hair on their bodies shaved off. They even all lost their names, and their identity was known as numbers. A-7713 was Elie Wiesel’s number. They were also put on a strict schedule. They woke up at dawn, and there was some nights where they could have been shot for not being in their block at the right time. Also, when leaving for the last concentration camp, they had to run for hours, and those who stopped were shot there on the spot. While running, they were called names by...
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...The Holocaust: Effects of Dehumanization in Art Spiegelman’s Maus War broke out in Europe in September of 1939. Everything went downhill from then, Germans began to take over and minorities such as Jews were quickly forced to go to concentration camps, these horrible camps were stationed all over Europe. One of the main camps in Poland was Auschwitz. Opened in May 1940, it was an extermination camp located in southern Poland in a small town named Oswiecim. The camp consisted of three separate camps not far from one another so that communication could be kept between them. These three camps included: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau and Auschwitz III–Monowitz. Auschwitz I was classified as the base camp where prisoners mainly worked, Auschwitz II–Birkenau was the main extermination camp where prisoners went to die in a variety of ways after being too weak to work, and Auschwitz III–Monowitz another labor camp, which held prisoners who worked at a German chemical factory, IG Farben. The killing methods ranged from being lined up at a wall and shot to being put into ‘showers’ that realized a toxic gas. Once the prisoners were dead, they were then burned in the crematoriums at the camp. Essentially the prisoners of the labor and death camps were treated as objects and not as the humans that they were. Many might even go as far as refer to the Germans as heartless for doing the things that they did to the innocent Jews and other monitories. Art Spiegelman’s Maus shows...
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...The Holocaust Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, to hear the sounds of screaming and thrashing. You look out your window to see Nazis rummaging down the streets taking every Jew in sight. This exact event occurred on the Night of the Broken Glass. Jews lost everything that day and they were sent off to concentration camps (Holocaust). The Holocaust ripped families and lives apart. Where lived a family of six now was an empty home, a lost and lonely casualty of the war. The Nazis treated the Jew’s horribly, although the Liberators of the Holocaust saved the Jews. History of concentration camps through the Holocaust shows how the deadly technology changed. At first concentration camps were made for captives of the...
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...The Holocaust was a very tragic event that happened during the 1900’s, that unfortunately murdered many innocent people. Although Adolf Hitler caused the Holocaust to become more tragic, Nazi soldiers and the German army murdered the people and put them into concentration camps. In these concentration camps people would get separated from their family and looked and lived in horrible conditions. In addition, other countries also affected the Holocaust because they did not allow innocent people into their country and instead watched them get brutalized and murdered. The other countries could have saved lives and prevented these tragedies from happening if they would have tried to help the victims that got targeted. Beside Adolf Hitler, Nazi soldiers, and the German army who persecuted and murdered innocent Jews, and other countries were most...
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...The Changing Len of Danish Holocaust History Danish Holocaust history has gone through remarkable shifts in how the event has been perceived. Originally, Denmark’s rescue of the majority of their Jews had been a heroic tale of Danish goodwill. More recently this idealistic view of the Danish Holocaust has been reexamined and scrutinized. There reasons surrounding why Danish Holocaust history is different from all of the other occupied European countries is very complex. Denmark was able so successful, not solely because of their character, but because of a multitude of factors which combined in a way that allowed an environment for Jewish rescue from deportation. At the surface Danish Holocaust history is presented as a light in the darkness...
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...been a vital. Men were subjected to the same inhumane and horrifying events that happened during the Holocaust. When one thinks of a man, you think of father, solider and other manly things. A great deal of pride comes along with being and man. Along with pride, testosterone, intensity, and all sorts of other factors key into the characteristics of men. However, the Holocaust completely stripped men of most of these characteristics. The Holocaust did not allow men to be men. Holocaust art, the “Tale of the Sprinter” by Sudeep Pagedar, and Vladek Spiegelman in the memoirs Maus by Art Spiegelman are examples of how men suffered during the Holocaust and the amount of empathy produced from the suffering of these men. Empathy is the ability to see something from somebody else's point of view and to walk a mile in their shoes if you will. Men are very prideful individuals who are very dominating members of society. The atrocity of the Holocaust has been displayed and expressed through various pieces of art and literature. Famous Holocaust painters like Felix Nussbaum have expressed this atrocity through art. Felix Nussbaum was a prisoner at Auschwitz who died there in 1944. The image to the right is one Nussbaum’s paintings that survived the Holocaust. Besides the man sitting on this wooden box, you see two other men in the rear who appear to be using the bathroom. The condition that these men were forced to live in horse stable like conditions. These men were treated like animals and...
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...“Night” Essay. The Holocaust (also called Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to harsh persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. The Jews were the victims of Hitler’s plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe. After the holocaust one of few survivors Elie Wiesel wrote a book called “Night” which was basically about the suffering all Jews had to go through. In this book Elie uses motifs to reveal the theme that the worst suffering comes from man’s own inhumanity to man. One of the motifs Elie uses to reveal the theme was how badly the Nazi soldiers treated their fellow human. First example was when the Nazi’s arrived at first they treated the Jews politely while living in their homes and acted quite civil then the Jews started to believe they were in no danger but Little by little, the soldiers took away their freedom—the leaders of the Jewish community were arrested; the Jewish people were put under house arrest; all their valuables were confiscated; the Jews were forced to wear a yellow star; the Jewish people were forced into ghettos; the ghettos were emptied and the people deported to concentration camps. This shows how the Nazi went from being human to dehumanizing their fellow human...
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...The Holocaust and how it is portrayed in Night by Elie Wiesel, reveals that not only did the Holocaust kill almost half of the Jewish population, but it almost violated almost all of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many Jews were deported by force out of their countries with no real reason behind it, discriminated for their choice of religion, and were treated as slaves when they were working in the concentration camps. These are examples of how the Holocaust is portrayed in Night, and how it has violated these 3 articles of human rights: articles two, four, and nine. Article two is as states: “You have all these human rights no matter what your race, skin color, social or economic status, birth or nationality.” According to the novel Night, however, Wiesel states on page 26: “The journey has only just begun, and I felt so weak… “Faster! Faster! Get on with you, lazy swine!” yelled the Hungarian police.” This immediately contradicts the human right, similar to a juxtaposition. In this case, Wiesel is being discriminated at, yelled at, and gets called a “lazy swine” due to...
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...The Lego Holocaust (Circle Production 2011) is a Brickfilm that depicts the event of the Holocaust using Legos. A Brickfilm is when a film is produced by using Lego or other similar plastic toys and it is usually produced using stop motion animation. At the beginning the narrator explains the Nazi view on Germany and then go on to show how the Jews were treated and how the Nazi tries to stop people from buying from Jewish shops. After that it tells how the Jews were sent to the Death camps and showed the conditions there. From there it shows how the Jews were killed in the gas chamber. In this essay, I shall answer the question of whether Lego Holocaust trivialises the Holocaust. In my opinion the Lego Holocaust does trivialised the Holocaust. It can be seen that the Lego Holocaust trivialises the Holocaust with the scene where the Jews were presented as Lego Star Wars aliens (Yoda and Greedo). By using these toy-like things to present what the Nazis view the Jews as may show the unseriousness the producer feel towards the Holocaust. Jason Hansen thinks that as the producers "slips into "play"" and the tragic event like the Holocaust was turned into something "fun for the young men". Also, Terrence Des Pres said that the Holocaust should be presented as a "scared event" and by using these childish toys to present the Jews perhaps shows that they are just having fun and doesn't show much sincerity which can be seen as trivialising the Holocaust with just some everyday popular...
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...The Belief and Denial of the Holocaust Between 1933 and 1945, an event took place that would greatly affect the world forever. Jews, homosexuals, and even Jehovah’s Witnesses were stripped of their rights, mistreated continuously, and forced to complete hard manual labor. This horrendous event led by Adolf Hitler is known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an event in which “Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered” (What Was The Holocaust?). Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany and the soldiers who were set out to annihilate anyone who did not follow social normalities. Even though there are various pictures and documents in existence showing proof...
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...concentration camps in Poland (Auschwitz: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Many Jews were transported to Auschwitz by trains (Auschwitz: Gale Student Resources in Context). Auschwitz would become a death machine killing more than 1 million people. Auschwitz was a concentration camp, built by the Nazis in April of 1940 (Wigoder, Abwehr to Extermination Camps). Most prisoners did not survive Auschwitz. It was liberated on January 27, 1945 (Wigoder, Abwehr to Extermination Camps). The fact that most prisoners did not survive Auschwitz means that Auschwitz was a key component of the Holocuast. Auschwitz was founded to be the answer to the Jewish question (Wigoder, Abwehr to Extermination Camps). It was the largest concentration camp (Wigoder, Abwehr to Extermination Camps), being 15.44 square miles (Auschwitz: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Auschwitz also had 3 main camps and over 40 sub camps (The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Death Factory). Auschwitz was the worst concentration camp of all. The Nazis killed 1.1 to 1.5 million people at Auschwitz (The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Death Factory). Only 20% were selected to work (The Auschwitz Album:...
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...Imagine you were a Jew in World War II. You are in hiding, hoping you be found. A friend takes you in and feeds you every day, but you leave without notice. This is what Max, from The Book Thief, experiences throughout the war. Max lived in a time where being a Jew was the only reason for death, and became the Holocaust. During this time, Max helps the little girl who protects him. Hans, also from The Book Thief, was the friend that took Max in. Hans not only helped Max, but he also looked after a foster daughter named Liesel, who he then shelters too. Both the Holocaust and what happened in Rwanda are called genocides. A genocide is the killing of large groups of people, sometimes related to ethnicity or race.In Rwanda, a large genocide occurred because of...
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...To most Americans, the holocaust has become known as Jewish history, but this understanding is incorrect for there was over five million victims that were not Jewish. The Holocaust was more than just a Jewish event. The Germans kept records that prove they exterminated millions of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, Jehovah's Witnesses, physically and mentally handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, and many more. (Overlooked millions) If people were captured, and not immediately exterminated, they were usually sent to a concentration camp or labor camp. These prisoners were then given patches on their clothing for identification. Political prisoners wore red, prostitutes and other of that nature wore black, criminals were given green, and Jews were given yellow. (Overlooked millions)...
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...the slot in the door. This is what it was like for Helmuth in the concentration camp. The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book based on the story of Helmuth´s life during, and leading up to him being in a concentration camp. Throughout the story, Helmuth sees how much Hitler is hiding from them. Nobody is allowed to do anything that’s not German. Also, he starts to see how the Jews are being treated differently. So, Helmuth illegally listens to a different radio station to get the truth and he makes leaflets with his friends, Karl and Rudi, to give people information about what is really going on with the war. Helmuth gets caught and put in a concentration camp where he later is killed. The Holocaust was a very dark time where people were in need of a hero....
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...victims of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, factions of people, including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled were hunted down and forced to enter concentration camps. They suffered extreme amounts of mistreatment and were identified by a characterized arm band. The Holocaust and the Salem witch hunts are comparable because a single leader initiated the hunts, terror triggered the movements, and people fell victim by what others perceived them as. The Holocaust transpired during World War II, 1939-1945, when one man came into power, Adolf Hitler. After World War...
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