How do you think Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust?
If it were me writing the essay, this is what I would say: Hunger. Terror. Despair. Flames. Death. These are just a few things Elie Wiesel, author of the book "Night" saw during his time at Auschwitz, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Separated from his mother and sisters, his father was the only person that motivated him to keep living, to keep on fighting. One day, he was a young lad studying the Talmud, the next day, he became a witness to the thousands of deaths that took place each day. In this essay, I will evaluate how Wiesel had the will to survive despite losing his faith in God and how his father helped him throughout their difficult journey.
The Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, Night?
Ellie Weisel has an amazing faith in God. He's talked about it with a famous quote (that I don't recall.) Maybe reading the book, then looking for his own words (his own answers) since - are the place to start. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/author... Here's one: "I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. " The one I'm thinking of isn't on there, but is similiar. How he knows there is a God & for that reason he is very angry with God.... (Hatikvah below found the quote!) The book is worth the read, & your essay won't make sense without reading it. ................. I have a YA question-answer set with good answers from a Jewish perspective. Problem is - I wouldn't know where I saved it (had computer problems & haven't been organized.) If I come across it I'll try to send it to you. It wouldn't be in time for your essay - but I bet it'd be interesting - I found it so. Assuming your email is open at the time.
How does Elie Wiesel's loyalty to his father help him survive the Holocaust?
Here's my thought - if you read the book, you should know the link between Wiesel's loyalty to his father and his will to survive. Once given that info. from foks here, you will most likely write a good essay, BUT would you have really completed the assignment and gotten the most out of it? I am thinking this is why you have not gotten a response until this one. As for me, I have not read the book, but after hearing Elie Wiesel speak on several occasions, I would think the book would be very much worth your time.
What were some of the factors that helped elie wiesel and OTHERS survive the holocaust?
When the concentration and death camps were liberated, thousands of people were saved from the verge of death. Millions had been murdered. I feel like there are two stories told by survivors, side by side, as they compliment each other. First, the ability to get food and clothing, because without them people die. Second, the moral and mental will to stay alive, a will which helped people overcome unimaginable horrors. Here are some answers given by some survivors over the years: (1) Viktor E. Frankl, in his book 'Man's search for meaning' writes that "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.” (2) In his book 'Night,' Eli Wiesel describes how his relationship with his father was a driving factor when he fought for survival. (3) Primo Levi describes in his book 'Is this a man' (also published as 'Surviving Auschwitz') how he had to adapt and work in different fields in order to survive. Many of survivors shared their experiences in videos, books and interviews over the years. Listening to the testimony of Holocaust survivors isn't always easy, but it's very important. You can watch some here: http://www.youtube.com/user/USCShoahFoun...
What do you think about movies about the Holocaust, especially Schindler's List and The Pianist?
These movies do have great importance as soon enough there will be no Holocaust survivors to tell first hand accounts.Growing up I heard rave reviews of Schindler’s List. When the movie came out I was too young to sit through it. I was more cartoon age, than black and white movie age.I remember people talking about how real the movie felt. How heavy it was. And how shocking the scene was with the little girl’s red dress.A couple of weeks back I decided I'll give these two movies a shot. Why not- I'm older now. And it was that type of weekend.I started with Schindler’s List. I kept thinking the movie will get better. It never did. Spielberg chose to shoot it in black and white for “authenticity” but totally ignored all the bad accents put on by the German characters, particularly the Nazi guards. The guards spoke English amongst themselves with a British accent. Why?? Who signed off on that? Why go black and white for “integrity” and totally ignore the accents? The movie would have been infinitely better in color, with subtitles for the German dialogue. I've come to accept Romans and Greeks speaking with English accents in a Hollywood movies. But not Nazi Germany.Ralph Fiennes was nominated for best supporting actor for his work in Schindler’s List. I can't understand why. He often comes in and out of character breaking his accent as well. Liam Neeson phoned in half the movie.The movie hints a lot at the importance of the Jewish workers to the growth of Oscar Schindler’s business yet it's horribly conveyed with many jump cuts to push time forward. The film does have some redeemable qualities, a couple decent monologues and one of the most iconic shots of movie history- girl in red dress. But other than that, it slightly missed the mark for me.The Pianist was much better. More substantial. Easier to connect with. The acting was believable and the cinematography grittier than Schindler’s List. It felt more authentic. It did a better job of focusing on one family's story rather than 6 million. You connected more and hurt more. But it felt like another tale of Jewish family saved by the graces of a few good Germans. Both movies felt a tad trite. Like the white teacher saving inner city high school students.Nonetheless, they're both good historical accounts of unfortunately real events.
Why do some people lie about being Holocaust survivors?
For fame, money, sympathy. Even Elie Wiesel has a story that does not match up historically. The admiration of holocaust survivors is almost saintly. The personal biographies are often filled with falsehood and imagination.For most real holocaust survivors, as with the Polish gentiles, they prefer not to talk about it. Usually these are the people who are the honest ones. The quiet ones.
What do holocaust survivors and their heirs, or Jews in general, think about the so-called "holocaust industry"?
Holocaust industry happened in 1939–1945. Jews were murdered and their property distributed among people close to the nazi regime, their houses, bussineses, valuables, etc. Many of them (or their decendants) still live in those stolen houses, operate those stolen bussineses, and they know it, and are paranoid about “Jews comming back and throwing them out”… All over Europe, pieces of judaica are showing up in various flea markets and antique shops and fairs, how those people got them, you can guess…Often states are complicit in this theft, probably biggest theft of the 20th century. Never mind the murder, Europe is still financialy benefiting from holocaust.Let us not even mention slave labour, many of todays great european conglomerates benefitted greatly from jewish slave labor…In many places in eastern and central Europe, even after emancipation, they did not let jews live within city walls, so in 19th century they built the modern city where there was room for modern industry, while gentiles stayed in old medieval houses and did traditional trades. Many Jews became rich in industrial revolution, but they were murdered and their property stolen by the murderers. Communists often nationalized those factories, but after communism fell, they “returned them to previous owners”, nazis who stole them from Jews. In western Europe they were not even nationalized.And it is all well known, but not talked about in public. They have a big need to compensate for the guilt, so they come up with horse shit like “concentration camp Gaza”… I wish that Auschwitz had swimming pools, shopping malls, well stocked shops like Gaza has, where inmates drive around in Mercedeses and BMWs… They have a very strong urge to say “we are not so bad, Jews are doing the same”… If facts are in the way, never mind, narrative is all that matters. Just make stuff up.
What are the most important rhetorical devices in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel?
Symbolism- If you read the book, did you notice how often Wiesel used the word "night" throughout the story. Generally, night is a time of day where everything is dark and mysterious, making things eerie and inevitable- just like Wiesel's time at Auschwitz and at the other camps. Look at this quote: "So much has happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense of time. When had we left our houses? And the ghetto? And the train? Was it only a week? One night- one single night" (34)? More on symbolism:http://www.ehow.com/how_2095782_understa... Irony- When the Red Army was in the distance, Wiesel thought that if they evacuated with the others, it would eventually lead to their freedom. Ironically, when they left with them, they were imprisoned for another three months. Had they decided to stay, they would have been liberated by the Red Army. Framework narrative- Look how he described Moshe the Beadle. He described to us readers what Moshe the Beadle was like before and after the Gestapo arrested him. Moshe the Beadle tried to tell Wiesel that the Germans were up to no good but they did not listen and took him for a madman. Foreshadowing- Throughout their journey to Auschwitz, a lady named Madame Schacter kept telling everyone that she saw "flames" and a "great fire." It's hot and stuffy inside the train as it is, so her shouts are not comforting. Rather than put up with her nonsense, the Jews tie her up and gag her, hoping she'll quiet down. Everyone thought she went mad like Moshe the Beadle and they simply had enough of her. Metaphor- He compared two distant objects without using "like" or "as." Here's a quote: "Our backyard had become a real market place. Household treasures, valuable carpets, silver candelabra, prayer books, Bibles, and other religious articles littered the dusty ground beneath a wonderfully blue sky"...(13).
What are some of the ways that the Jewish people survived during the Holocaust?
First you had to be lucky, sometimes resourceful to survive.# you could go in hiding at a christian family, like Anne Frank did. She did not survive but many did.#You could try to leave the country, but once Germans arrived in invaded countries it was often too late.#Some people survived the extermination camps, But camps like Sobibor, Madjanek, Chelmno killed more than 1.5 million, only 17 survivors in Sobibor, and also a few in the other camps survived them. Auschwitz had more survivors. Some 1500 were jews were still alive when the Russians arrived. Other camps also had survivors. To survive in a camp, you mostly had to be lucky (what kind of work you did, what kind of camp you went to).#Some jews escaped the ghetto’s especially in Minsk, and try to survive in the forrest, with farmers, very risky..Some reached the Partisans, some were killed, many fought with them against the Nazi’s#Some had special passes and were not deported. Some had fake christian identity.#Some the Nazi’s never got to deport, like some jews in Paris, or Budapest.#Some jews were saved, because their country did not work with the Nazi’s, as far as deporting jews, like Bulgaria and Denmark. These jews almost all survived.#Some jews lived in neutral countries and all survived, mostly small communities like Spain, Zwitserland and Sweden.I hope that answered you question