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The word Holocaust refers to the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime during World War II. It began in 1933 and ended in 1945. The ruler of Germany during this time was Adolf Hitler. He and the Nazis put the Jew in concentration camps, where thousands were killed everyday. This was one of the worst if not the worst genocides in history. Many books have been written to document survivors’ testimony of this horrific event. Elie Wiesel shares his story and Art Spiegelman shares his father’s story in the books Night and Maus. Comparisons can be drawn between Maus and Night through the author's purpose for writing , the survivor’s experiences, and the author's perspective.

The Holocaust was life changing for the Jewish people. Inside the book Night, Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish boy whom’s emotion and spirituality changes after his imprisonment in the concentration camps. The Jewish people, including Eliezer, faced dehumanization many times during this period of time. Teenagers should learn about the Holocaust because it engages students to think critically and self-reflect, by doing so they can make essential connections between the history and the contemporary moral choices they confront with their own lives.

The Holocaust appeared to be a time of darkness and it seemed like on Earth and in heaven, each doorway of humanity, empathy, and kindness had been closed down. Those who did not encounter the Holocaust cannot begin to comprehend what it was like, however, those who did cannot begin to express it. Torture, genocide, and cruel acts started to fill brains and souls. The Holocaust was an event where millions of people were being murdered during World War II. The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is based on Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps, in order to give readers an insight of someone who was a victim of the Holocaust. The young narrator, Elie Wiesel, faces countless struggles for survival among the horrors of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Eliezer, the passionately, devoted boy with a benevolent family, is taken from his home and sent to a concentration camp. Through their unstable and dangerous journey, Elie is detached from his mother and sisters but lingers on with his father, only to be relocated from camp to camp. Elie mentions the death of numerous family members, the death of his own identity and innocence, to an extent in which living or dying did not matter anymore. In Night, Wiesel reveals that the exposure to an unsympathetic, bitter world generates to the destruction of the three main themes throughout the memoir which are; religious faith, identity, and family.

Traumatic life experiences can have a variety of effects on a person, like constant flashbacks, PTSD, or depression. But very difficult life or death experiences can also seriously change a person’s personality. In Maus, Art Spiegelman explores how living through the Holocaust affects his father’s personality and personal relationships. By showing us Vladek’s story in both the past and the present, we get to see his experiences in the Holocaust changed who he is as a person thirty years later. On the surface, modern-day Vladek appears to be an uptight, miserly, crotchety old man, but by examining how his experiences in the Holocaust and what he had to in order to survive, we can see how they continue

The holocaust is a period of time were in a time of war a human’s natural right was disregarded and cast away in a trail of bloodshed that over 6 million people suffered just because they were of Jewish descent and many surviving Jewish people of the holocaust had to deal with the guilt of living and witnessing their family dying. This book (Night by Elie Wiesel, Published in 1960) shows the reader the holocaust through the eyes of the author after he was torn away from his village and relocated to a Ghetto in Sighet. After spending some time in the Ghetto he and his family are forced on to a train with hundred’s of other fellow Jewish people who too are also confused about where the Germans were going to send them to. After spending a few

Twelve-year-old Hannah Stern, is a Jewish girl from New Rochelle, NY. What started out as a normal traditional dinner called Seder, became an adventure of humiliation, survival, death, and a new found appreciation for her family and heritage. Hannah, during Seder dinner, was told to answer the door to see if someone was coming. When she opened the door she was suddenly transported back in time—to Poland in 1942. Her confusion grows deeper as she inhabits the life of Chaya Abramowicz. Not understanding if this is a dream, or if she is Hannah or Chaya, she and her new friends and family are then taken by the Nazis. The book details the horrific acts that happened at the concentration camps during WW2, and the message of never forgetting what

In Number Our Days, Myerhoff illustrates how older Jewish individuals come together to make a community in a place called The Center in California, that is practically a second home to these individuals. In Myerhoff’s study, the older, Jewish individuals in The Center band together to keep their beliefs alive. These individuals are banded together from shared experiences of “the old country” and from their shared trauma of the horrors of the Holocaust (Myerhoff, 1978: 23). “The Center people were survivors twice over, once due to their escape by emigration from the unnatural ravages of the Holocaust, and again later by living into extreme old age, surviving their peers, family, and often children,” (Myerhoff, 1978: 23). This lead to the community

The audience can only fully understand what the people of the Holocaust feel and went through. Yvonne Engleman (‘Holocaust Survivor reflects on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz’) states that “many people like her have no pictures of family that died in the Holocaust, so returning to the camp is a way of remembering their loved ones”. This indicates how commemorating the Holocaust is very important as it brings families closer to other family members that they did not get to meet or know. Bernie Sanders (“The Holocaust and Jewish identity”) makes a comment in a democratic debate talking about his family that has been in the Holocaust and says that he is very proud to be Jewish. This shows how even though the Holocaust happened many years ago; it still affects the people of today.

Children Remember the Holocaust is a movie revealing the horrors behind Jewish children who dove back into their stories and perspective of the genocide. Their description are beyond gruesome was displayed audibly while pictures of them and the events they described were displayed on the screen. The combination of these two impacted me in more ways than one. However, certain parts struck me and left me with an imprint on my heart. Four parts or phases of the Holocaust divided the movie.

During the era of the Holocaust, it was no secret that Jewish people had to surpass many trials and tribulations in order to stay alive. Those who survived had the odds in their favor because as many as six million Jews were wrongfully murdered. Nonetheless, there were many survivors, who have come to tell their compelling and educating stories of what they experienced during these unfathomable times; with it come two stories, Maus, written by Art Spiegelman and Night, written by Elie Wiesel. In both stories, we get a sense of the horrors the Jewish people had to bare during these hard times and we get to envision a clear focus on both Spiegelman and Wiesel’s relationships with their fathers. While Spiegelman did not have first hand experience with the horrific scenes, he was very interested in learning about his father’s experience, even though he and his father had a difficult relationship. Elie, on the other hand, did experience the holocaust first-hand and he seemed to have a good relationship with his father.

Art Spiegelman’s “Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History” is a story within a story. It tells the life of the author’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew before, during, and after World War II. As the story of Vladek is told, the tale of a rift is revealed. A rift between Art and Vladek, created by clashing personalities, absence, and the impact of the suicide of Art’s mother and Vladek’s wife. Maus is not just about the Holocaust; it is also about the ramifications afterwards on the already fragmented relationship between a father and son.

The 1978 NBC miniseries, Holocaust, tells the story of the Third Reich from the perspective of Jewish and German families whose lives intertwine. The series presented four parts that showed the events and acts that led up World War II, which included Kristallnacht, Jewish concentration camps, and gas chambers. With the characters’ tragic experiences, viewers gain a sense of the emotional, physical, and psychological impact of the Holocaust. The storyline consists of a Jewish family, the Weiss, who experiences hardships and a horrific fate while a German family, the Dorf’s, face an alteration in their moral principles. Overall, the series informs viewers of the atrocious nature of the Holocaust.

To begin with, the book takes place during the Holocaust, arguably the most brutal and morbid time in human history. In a war struck Nazi Germany, what better narrator then one who cannot be lost to the war? Furthermore, many different stories intertwine to form

I will talk about five Jewish survivor stories of how life was before they were taken, how they survived while in a concentration camp, and how they are doing long after the Holocaust. Each of these five stories has a similar beginning that starts with their family having a normal happy life till the Germans come into their towns and turn their world upside down. Then antisemitism begins to arise throughout their communities. Their neighbors and Germans treat them like

The story of the Jewish people is that of struggle and oppression. From the biblical accounts of slavery in Egypt, to the mass genocide perorated at the hands of the Nazi’s, the over arching facet of Jewish history is clear, that of crisis. Many time the Jewish community has sought to find answers to their problems of national identity.