...Incomplete Essay Man’s Search for Meaning is a relatively short but powerful novel about an experience through a concentration camp from the eyes of psychologist and author, Victor E. Frankel. “I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of a concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any condition, even the most miserable ones.” (Victor Frankl). The first half of the book takes place in concentration camps throughout Europe, including the legendary Auschwitz. In his account of the camps, Frankl describes the nature of man when subjected to immense suffering. He gives large contrasts of prisoners giving in to the suffering and how they rise above it. His ideas deal with the value of life even at times of suffering and hopelessness and how everyone has to understand that. One of the main topics he discusses concerning suffering is that of hope. Without hope then there would be no point in anyone enduring the suffering with which they endured during these Nazi concentration camps. Frankl says that, “Every man was controlled by one thought only: to keep himself alive for the family waiting for him at home, and to save his friends. With no hesitation, therefore, he would arrange for another prisoner, another ‘number,’ to take his place in the transport.” This really shows how much suffering people went through just in hope of returning to loved ones. Another one of his lines from his book is, “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as...
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...In the book Night by Elie Weisel it explains how Eliezer was in a Nazi concentration camp in Europe, the struggles of the Nazi people and their ways, Eliezer's father and the outcomes of the Holocaust. Many of the things Eliezer thought, did, and sometimes even seen or heard could easily be compared to human lives and how they act, think, or become after and/or during an incarceration period. When you are incarcerated your mind wonders like crazy, you really don't have much to do but think. Just like Eliezer did about his father.sometimes you can think so much that you almost start to make up stuff in your head. Like all the bad things that could happen because you are away in a camp, jail, prison, etc. Even though it is most likely isn't true at all it still makes you think and makes your mind go crazy which is no different than the way Eliezer's head and thoughts was. (It's just an overall way of explaining thoughts without an actual situation to explain). After a while you get better at controlling your thoughts and those mind wandering nights. In Eliezer’s case however, with the passing of his father, with how close they were it was/would of made our human lives way more difficult to control our minds, but it's never impossible. Things will always get greater later even when you...
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...Camille Hoover Dr. Stanton 3rd Period 10 February 2016 Rough Draft Torture in Auschwitz The concentration camp, Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Open in 1940, the camp was initially a punishment for political crimes, but then it was seen as a prison for Jewish people and other enemies opposing the Nazi state. The captains of the camps would tattoo the prisoners or sew symbols or numbers into their clothes in order to identify them. Very few survivors of the Holocaust are alive today, because of the tremendous amount of torture the prisoners were put through and the passage of time. There were only so many ways to die in Auschwitz. For example, there was the dark cell, where you were would be put into a dark...
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...The Holocaust is a great tragedy that happened during World War II. One of the main concentration camps was Auschwitz this is the largest of the Nazi death camps, the camps address is Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Gmina Oświęcim, Poland. Auschwitz was located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia, it’s an area that Nazi Germany took control of, in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. Of the camps of Auschwitz there were three camps. The first was just the main Auschwitz, the second was Auschwitz-Birkenau and the third was Auschwitz-Monowitz .In these camps they killed 1.1 million people and most of them were Jews. These camps symbolize death in the eyes of millions of people. It was on the five death camps the most streamlined mass killings ever. Auschwitz I or the main camp housed the prisoners, the cite of medical experimentations, the cite of Block 11, which was a place of severe torture, and the Black Wall the place of execution. These people were sent here from other camps around Europe just to be executed, just because of who they were born to be. In September, the SS first tested Zyklon B as an instrument of mass murder. They were tortured and treated like slaves because of being Jewish or Polish or Roma. Anybody who was not of the Aryan race was not acceptable to be German because of the conception of one man telling them they were a disgrace. Auschwitz-Birkenau camp had the...
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...is the son of a Nazi commandant and a Jewish concentration camp inmate. The references throughout the story are very vital because they help the reader get a more in depth feel to the story. Chapter Eight “Why Grandmother Stormed Out” is very significant because it makes several references to clothing, costumes, and uniforms. Symbolism plays a key part in “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. Symbolism in the story is used to provide meaning to the writing beyond what is actually being described. The plot and action that take place in the story can help the reader see things on one level, but when symbolism is introduced it enhances everything. Therefore in “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” and other novels symbolism is very important. The clothing and uniforms described in the story help the reader characterize the people that are being described. Not only in the novel but in everyday life clothing can help us decipher a person. For example someone who is wearing off brand, dirty, and or cheap clothing we can most likely make an accurate hypothesis that they are not a very wealthy being. But someone that is wearing Gucci, Versace, and big named brands we can decide that they are someone who is quite wealthy. These references are all around us in the world today. Uniforms, clothing and such reflect the book as a whole. The title of the book even gives an example of that type of symbolism. “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” the striped pajamas refer to the prison uniforms that the...
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...ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst sleeping conditions and they’re treated like nothing (Jews aren’t even humans to the Nazis). Jews were segregated because they were blames for for the economic crisis that Germany was suffering through as well as their defeat in World War I, Hitler targeted the Jews as the country’s main enemy. According to him, the Jewish people were directly responsible for Germany’s many problems (Maya...
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...ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst sleeping conditions and they’re treated like nothing (Jews aren’t even humans to the Nazis). Jews were segregated because they were blames for for the economic crisis that Germany was suffering through as well as their defeat in World War I, Hitler targeted the Jews as the country’s main enemy. According to him, the Jewish people...
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...What it takes to survive a war “Maus” is graphic novel that tells the story of some survivors of the Holocaust, written by Art Spiegelman. It revolves around the main character Vladek (Art’s father) and his journey starting from years before World War II throughout the war and finally the end of the war and his survival. As a Jewish man, Vladek’s survival through the war and the Nazi concentration camps was genuinely a tough and difficult trip. Not only he survived, but Vladek also managed to carry his family away from the face of death. Quite a few factors contributed to his success, some are physical; such as his various skills and abilities that he used to keep himself alive, while the rest are emotional; like his love to his family, his dedication and his resourcefulness. Vladek was a true handyman, he possessed lots of skills before the war which later turned out to be his boat to the shore of life. He started out in the textile business, where it was more management work than hard labor. Later after Anja fell into a state of depression and he was coming back from the sanitarium, he enlisted into the Polish army, where he learned survival and combat skills that would help him in the long run. He was taken as a prisoner soon enough after the war starts, however, he got released. Vladek got into the black market business, dealing in the black market taught him a lot of skills varying from negotiation and communication skills to life lessons such as not trusting everyone...
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...Trauma of Shin Dong-hyuk Do you know about North Korean’s political prison camps? Many people might do not know what there are. They have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. But Shin Dong-hyuk did. He was destined to a life of hard labor and an early death. Thinking of love and family were no meaning. He just saw his mother as a competitor for food. He is taught to trust no one, to snitch on everyone and to be loyal only to the guards. When he was 23, Shin managed to evade the guards and crawl through an electrified fence over the dead body of his friend to escape. He found his way to China, then to South Korea and eventually to the U.S. He is the only prisoner born and raised in one of North Korea's prison camps who is known to have escaped. Reporter Blaine Harden has written an account of Shin's journey called Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Not surprisingly, Shin's PTSD and learned way of life make it very difficult for him to open up and share the brutal details of his life. Not just because he had bad things done to him, but because he believes he did some very bad things himself. Although Shin has physical freedom, he cannot achieve psychological freedom evidenced by his distrust of others, others’ distrust of him, his lacks of loving role models, his shame of surviving Camp 14,...
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...international laws such as the Nuremberg Principles and the Genocide Convention to hold individual responsible for crimes against humanity. Countries have engaged in war crimes for thousands of years in violation of the established laws and customs of war. Torture, rape, massacres, genocide, and atrocities documented over centuries continue today. This paper will discuss some of the heinous crimes committed during War World II Holocaust and the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis. War Crimes the Executioners and the Victims of Genocide Military powers around the world inflict some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity, and in each case, there are executioners and victims of these crimes that never get fair justice. “ The German concentration camps of World War II, the horrors of the Vietnam War, the prolific rape and brutality during the break- up of the former Yugoslavia and the Hutu massacres of the Tutsis in Rwanda,” ("20th Century," n.d., p. 5) are just a few named conflicts that displayed devastating atrocities. The executioners in the World War II Holocaust and the Hutu Massacres in Rwanda caused terrible massacre to the human race more than any other conflict in history. These crimes all have a negative impact on the country and the citizens that live there. Every leader, citizen, and Soldier has a responsibility to report criminal acts committed in war. War crimes and atrocities will leave unshakable scares that will last for generations to come. World War II...
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...Author name: Professors name: Subject: Date: Comparison-Contrast report on the internment concentration camps placed in United States and Germany. In World War II, the people-citizens which were not needed or just migrated to the country- were detained and confined without any trail is called an Internment concentration camp. The people were prisoners and kept in very bad and extremely harsh in conditions with no rights. The present paper is to highlight the comparison-contrast of the Internment concentration camps placed by United State and Germany to imprison their own populations. Later in 1993 in Nazi Germany ,Concentration become a major source for which Nazi can easily imposed their control and across Nazi controlled Europe between 1938 and 1945 to obtain the maximum hold. The reason to setup these camps were to eliminate any opposition to Nazi by their so called enemies-people who can threat. These people includes the communists, socialist and social democrats, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and the so called a socials which were found in their own peoples of around 2millions in population whereas male above the age of 14, women’s and children kept in worst condition, given less water and food exposed to brutal and cruelty. They turned week and bad to continue with the deadly process. Many thousands of Jews were arrested during this period resulted bulk of the prisoners of these camps were subjected to increasingly poor conditions...
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...Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Visual Analysis of World War II in Multiple Mediums Abstract During this Visual story telling class we learned ways to visually analyze different mediums. We learned about John Berger who introduced people seeing things in a new way. This is paralleled with the way the Holocaust has been portrayed in different mediums. He also introduced the idea of “seeing” depends on a person’s habit and their environment. I will be comparing elements in the mediums of Reflections and Echoes, Maus, Life is Beautiful, and Inglorious Bastards as well as the methods in the perceptions of the author and the lenses through which they see, and then go into detail about the readers perceptions. Introduction The medium through which an artist chooses to express their message or ideas has an effect on the way it is perceived by the viewer. Imagery has deeper meaning that artists tend to hide their message through the use of several representations. The type of image that an author decides to use has an ultimate effect on the perception of the audience. Members of the audience decode varied meanings from an image in the text. The World War II is among issues that have been represented in texts and movies through the use of imagery. It is upon the audience to have extra skills so that they decipher the intended meaning of the author. In this analysis, the focus will be on how different texts and films have portrayed World War II. However,...
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...Giovani rodriguez mr.el-amin period 3b HOLOCAUST SHORT STORY Hello my name is joseph hofstein And I'm a german jewish teenager. I'm 16 years old and i lived in germany working in my parents restaurant. There was an event called kristallnacht that destroyed my parents business, our money was stolen,the glass was shattered and the building was raided of anything worth value. The next morning me and my faMily were sent to live in the ghetto along with all other fellow jewish people , we were identified by our star of david on our clothes. we were all derived of all our rights and privileges. i had read hitler's book mein kampf explaining his new goals for the german empire(third reich) and how he wanted a pure race but at the time i did not think much about those words. i did not realize what he meant until the liquidation of the ghettos occurred and we were sent to labor camps or death camps. some of us were killed while the liquidation was in progress depending who you were, such as a journalist or politician because of intelligence. My family had been split up to different camps, my mother was sent to auschwitz,while my father was sent to Dachau and i was sent to Bergen-Belsen in 1943. I knew my mother would not be seen again because auschwitz was a death camp and my father was at a labor camp but chances of survival were very slim , I began to assume i would never see my family again which now meant i was all alone...
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...Tracia Elder 3/28/14 A. speaker’s name – Mr.Phil Gans B. title of speech/presentation –Prisoner #139755 Aushwitz III Labor Camp Survivor C. location of speech –Clearwater Campus ES104 D. date and time it started and ended –9:30-10:45am E. function/occasion –Speech I saw an older man dressed in what looked like a stripped prison uniform, it was blue and white and across the left side the numbers read 139755. He started the speech by asking where was God when 11 million people died? I thought the speaker had the audience in the beginning in just wearing the uniform, I felt it was a very effective way to gain the audience’s attention. In my opinion, the speaker gained my attention and he may have improved his speech by having more eye contact and giving us a presentation with more inflection in his voice and maybe even had a better introduction. The thesis of this speech was to tell a story of how a man became a survivor during one of the most trying times in the world, The Holocaust. He wanted to relay his story but also to tell us on how a man could have so much hate in his heart against a human people. The thesis was spot on for the occasion and the audience, to me you knew what you were going to this speech to hear about a man surviving the holocaust in a slave labor camp controlled by the Nazi’s, German soldiers with Hitler as their ruler. Also in this speech the thesis could have been based on how it is to overcome even the worst defining obstacles...
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...During the reign of the Nazi regime they were able to establish almost 20,000 camps throughout Europe. With so many camps spread out across Europe each one had its own purpose. There are two sets of systems when looking at camps that were put in place by the Nazis. Each one had its own purpose; death camps were established to commit murder on a wide scale. Concentration camps were utilized for punishment or as transit between other camps. One will see the names and different types of camps that were established by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The first part one will see is the concentration camps. They played a very important role in the suppression of the Jewish people and others. Within these camps some were set as force labor to support...
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