I Have Lived A Thousand Years

Night by Elie Wiesel was also a very disturbing memoir on the Holocaust. Some of the scenes depicted even gave me nightmares; about someone torturing me like the Nazis did the Jews. Last year in English we read two

Another book I read that taught me about life and facts about how Jews were treated during the holocaust was Night by Eliezer Wiesel. Night was about Eliezer who liked to be called Elsie and his memory as a teenager going through stages of his life where he thought he was going to die and how he overcame those obstacles. Before reading I had to get in a mindset that this book will be different from others and probably more graphic. While reading this book I imagined myself back in the 1940s and imagine what was going on, like being on the train and smelling the different things there. It was also hard imagining myself getting separated from his family and hearing them screaming trying to get to me. Throughout the whole story it was hard to

The Holocaust. One of the most memorialized events in the history of mankind. Tragic deaths that tallied over 20 million total. The majority of those ( 6 million ) were of Jewish ethnicity. This novel follows the life of what was a young prideful jewish boy, to a what turned into be a hopeless, near death, young man. This is a non-fiction book known as Night ・ Elie Wiesel.

60). What stands out to me is how the story progresses to where Elie meets the girl after the Holocaust and the girl explains how she forged to be a “Aryan” and worked as a laborer instead of a prisoner. I would want to strive to be similar to this girl during desperate situations such as the Holocaust. There was no mention of her family along with her and I really think that she is a very brave individual for achieving the necessary components for her survival along with having no family members to support her through those tough times. Even more, she risked her life speaking German with Elie (Wiesel. 61).

In conclusion, I believe this book has insight about the holocaust that most history books do not. The book Night should be continued to be taught throughout future school

The author of the book that I am going to introduce, is a North Korean defector. The book is called The Girl With Seven Names. It describes the story of the author Hyeonseo Lee, who escaped from North Korea at age 17.She has changed her name for several times at different periods of her life. She used these names to mask her real identity after she escaped from North Korea.

Many stories are often told in a Jewish person’s account. It is able to tell what the German child’s life is like. Because people often think that the German’s were the bad people and the Jewish people were the victims. In this book you were able to tell how the German’s actually felt and how they portrayed the story. These reasons might be true, but the book could have done a better job at showing the Germans lifestyle when tell the story. They were very vague and don’t give a whole lot of description. Since the book was wrote in a child’s perspective; the child was very naive and doesn’t exactly know what is entirely happening in this time or war. As you can see, this book does show that it is in a German boy’s perspective, but it lacks a lot of strong info and it is very

Being high school students, it is hard to connect to anything involving the Holocaust, but the way the story is written we get more of a connection to the people inside the

For the Jews of the Holocaust, even their families were not a guaranteed part of their lives. Many of them went to school or out to the store and came home to find their house empty, their families taken away. An example of this is a story from Dora Zuer Iwler, who was out working when the Nazis came and took away her mother and brother and shot her sister (Brostoff, 12). Another story tells about Helbert Silberman’s experience when he goes to live with his grandparents to find their house destroyed and his grandparents missing (Brostoff, 18). These are just two of the many horrible situations in which Jews came home to find their families gone, and these were just minor instances of families being separated. Some instances involved families being ripped apart before they were shipped by cattle cars to their deaths. Ester Haas tells a story about how her sister, Rieke, became separated from her and how she never saw Rieke again once the war was over (Brostoff, 84-85). The movie Escape from Sobibor also depicts families being separated as the Jews arrive at Sobibor camp. Many of the characters must sit there helplessly as their family members are taken away to be killed (DVD). These stories put my life into perspective because my family has not been ripped from my life. My family is very much a part in my life and it hits close to home to imagine a life in which they are gone. These stories make me think about how unbearable life would be if I had nobody left to look after me or love me. Life is difficult enough even with a family looking out for you and helping you, so I would never want to live in a life that doesn’t include them. The concept that the book conveys make me really appreciate the people in my life that care about me. It also makes me

The Holocaust was one of our nation's most horrific and gruesome time period. Approximately six million innocent Jewish people died. No one at this time knew it was such a terrible and nonsense thing to do. I Have Lived 1,000 Years, written by Livia Britton-Jackson, is about a young teenage girl, Ellie, living through the Holocaust and not knowing what to expect. You should read this book because it is a story of faith and love, it makes you not want to put the book down and because the main character, Ellie, reminds me of you.

I chose this theme because the story is about Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp. Most of the Jews were in fear, they lost hope, desire, but there were few who wanted to fight against the Nazis for their freedom. Their biggest obstacle was fear. In addition, while reading this book, I often had hard time sleeping, even though I don’t read it right before the bed. If the book was fiction, then it might not be that hard to sleep but I knew that the story is during the Holocaust and everything actually happened. The author included both spiritual and emotional struggles. Due to the well-written context, I could follow the story easily. Also, some of the scenes I still cannot forget in my

Although early in the book I Have Lived a Thousand Years Eli’s mom says a yellow star doesn't “kill or condemn or harm”(31) I think it does because it was the beginning to a lot of pain and suffering. When they were given the stars, people knew who were jews so they knew who to send away to the ghettos. After they were in the ghetto Eli and her mom were taken to Auschwitz where the pain really started. In Auschwitz eli's mom became paralyzed when a poorly made bunk fell on her. When she was healing she was slow so eli helped her. When Eli's mom was getting ready to slow the guarded attacked her so eli pushed her away. When eli pushed the guard she got [kicked] “ in the face, [and] the chest” (145).

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that most people can’t even wrap their minds around. Libraries are filled with books about the Holocaust because people are both fascinated and horrified to learn the details of what survivors went through. Maus by Art Spiegelman and Night by Elie Wiesel are two highly praised Holocaust books that illustrate the horrors of the Holocaust. Night is a traditional narrative that mainly focuses on Elie’s experiences throughout the holocaust while Maus is a comic book that focuses on the relationship between Art and his father and the generational trauma Art is going through as well as his father’s experiences during the Holocaust. Night and Maus are very different styles of

This book is about a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany in 1939. I believe this book will help me on my hero’s journey because it talks about how you can’t take away people's freedom. I want to be a leader someday so this book would help me not abuse power if I became a leader. The deadline for this book is the end of the second session. The deadline for the review is the end of session three. I will be doing a written review. This book is life changing because it shows people how a government can get out of hand. This book has very complex ideas because it talks about Nazi Germany and stealing books. I am exploring new subjects and genres because I have not read a book about something real in a long time. This book is appropriate at this time because I have previously read books about Nazi Germany. The Lexile level of this book is 730. This book has 584 pages. The next three books I am going to read are The Jungle, Moyers on Democracy, and Steve

I am going to guess that the reader of this essay is not a holocaust survivor. I can almost guarantee it. Although you’re not a survivor of one of the most horrific events in history, it does not mean you will have no feelings about it if you were to hear some stories. I call them stories because most books written of such detail are mere personal experiences and not factual, historical information. Speaking of personal experiences, I took the time to read a book about a man named Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997).¹ He was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. The book is called “Man’s Search for Meaning”, and I find it to be a truthful collection of anecdotes and philosophies. For