“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that remains.”- Anne Frank. The Holocaust was a tragedy in our world, millions of people were killed because of genocide. Adolph Hitler was the man who ran this plan, he discriminated against the Jews and wanted them killed or slaves. One person who was killed in this tragedy was Anne Frank. Anne Frank’s family was Jewish so they secretly hid in a secret room where their father used to...
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WWII Nazis exhibited extreme adversity and conflict against the Jewish people of Europe. Diaries written like Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and Bloeme Emden’s first-hand account in Hidden Like Anne Frank represent methods the Jews cope with the ongoing conflict against them. But while they more specifically represent the Jewish people of WWII, they also represent people universally when faced with adversity and conflict. When faced with extreme adversity, people bear with the conflict by forms of self-expression...
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Night, written by Ellie Wiesel, is written by an author in first person; detailing their haunting experience in concentration camps during the Holocaust. He and his father embarked on a deadly and involuntary journey, moving from one death camp to another. Throughout the book, the author provides numerous anecdotes that provide the reader with an image of what these concentration camps were really like. Throughout the book, the author shares personal accounts of what it was like to really be...
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In Night by Elie Wiesel, he continually mentioned the theme of faith/optimism/hope. The deeper into the memoir, the more Wiesel lost his faith. Initially, in the beginning of the book, he had a really close relationship with God, but as the Holocaust went on, he lost his faith more and more. Wiesel went through many occasions of a loss of faith throughout his ordeal in a concentration camp. He questioned God’s existence and his belief in religion after undergoing atrocities...
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In the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, the reoccurring strand of freedom develops a foundation of Frederick’s narrative. Douglass, as well as many other slaves, view Baltimore as a place of freedom and somewhere that is a vastly different from where they are from. Similarly, in Primo Levi’s, Survival of Auschwitz, freedom and confinement are two strands that reoccur throughout the text. The people in concentration camps are physically confined, but their lack of freedom consumes them. Primo...
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Before any cruelty of the holocaust had occurred, Elie's relationship with his religion was strong and his faith was incorruptible, but the concentration camps had irreparably shaken his beliefs from obeying his religion to questioning its conviction. Before the holocaust had initiated, Elie was devoted to his religion and faith. When Elie was asked with the question of why he prayed by Moishe the Beadle, he indefinitely replied with, “Why did I live?” and “Why did I breathe?”(4). Elie is...
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