Essays Tagged: "concentration camp"

Japanese Canadians during the WWII

the World War II, there was more than 6 millions of Jews killed by Nazi, most of them killed in the concentration camp A place where selected groups of people confined, usually for political reasons. ... r kind, lovely, peace-keeper government also made the same mistake. They didn't sent Germans to the concentration camp, they sent Japanese Canadians to the Relocation Camp. Why did Canadian government ...

(3 pages) 56 0 3.7 Feb/1995

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Discuss in detail Polanski's interpretation of Act One, Scene One of "Macbeth" and say how effective you found it.

anski was born in 1933 in France, but lived in Krakow from an early age. His parents were sent to a concentration camp when he was twelve, but he was later reunited with his father. In 1969, Sharon Ta ...

(8 pages) 47 0 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

"Night" by Elie Wiesel.

Night by Elie WieselDuring the WWII, million of the Jews were sent to the concentration camp due to the Hitler's anti-Semitic policy. The autobiography, Night, by Elie Wiesel ... nd God, but all the important things to him were destroyed when he and his family were taken to the concentration camp. At that time, he was only 14. The tortures at the camp caused his beliefs about ... estion.However, things started to change when Elie and his family were taken from their town to the concentration camp at Birkenau, where he was separated with his mother and sisters forever. By witne ...

(3 pages) 111 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A Loss of Innocence.

Millions of Jewish people entered a concentration camp not knowing or quite understanding what it was or what it was going to do to them ... ce to escape somewhere or hide someplace that would protect them.At a young age Elie was taken to a concentration camp, he believed very strongly in God, and studied about the Jewish way as much as po ... oung teenage boy whose only wish was to be accepted by the country he loved. After being in various concentration camps until they were finally freed Elie became old and withered. He stopped believing ...

(2 pages) 68 4 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Does the Book Night by Elie Wiesel lead to hope or despair?

y the Nazis during World War II The book tells the story of the time when the author was taken to a concentration camp by the Nazis. At the time he was only 14 years old and lived in Sighet, Transylva ... ankind is this disgusting then God must be this way or may not exist. When Eliezer first got to the concentration camp he didn't have any hope. " Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my G ...

(3 pages) 64 0 3.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Holocaust, the forgotten victims. This report discusses the additional victims of the holocaust, the Gypsies, gay men, Jahova Witness and children of mixed race parents.

other 5,000,000? Many people from the forgotten groups were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration camp run by the Nazis. The other victims were Polish (non Jewish), Gypsies, Jehovah Wi ... s, doctors and lawyers were executed in public, while most of the remaining upper class was sent to concentration camps where they later died. Non-Jews of Polish descent suffered over 100,000 deaths a ...

(6 pages) 120 1 1.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

What use is{was} this war ?

World War II had stroked my soul not alike any other warfare. Holocaust, genocide, concentration camp were the nightmare terms that I had to grow up with. Certainly, every war leaves ... had touched on the subject of resistance. In the book, "all All but But my My lifeLife" she, the a concentration camp survival, states that simply not many believed or expected this these massacres f ...

(35 pages) 214 1 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Concentration Camps vs. School: Are they Really that Different?

One can think how horrible a concentration camp is, one can think how horrible schools are, the scary thing is that they aren't t ... y thing is that they aren't that far different from each other! Elie Wiesel describes in detail the concentration camps he is in and how he feels emotionally. Elie mentions several things about concen ... ompared to a school or schools. Although people will say how the feeling of actually being inside a concentration camp and the feeling of being in school are completely different, if someone has never ...

(3 pages) 34 0 2.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Psychology of Guido Orifice in "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL"

y have a boy name Joshua. Their life is very great until the Nazis come and take them all away to a concentration camp. On that very same day it is Joshua's 7th birthday. Guido says that he has planne ... It involves developing and reaching our full potential as a unique human being. When he was in the concentration camp, his whole hierarchy of needs started all over again and he was back at level one ...

(5 pages) 84 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Casablanca - Movie Review and Analysis

nsit signed by General DeGaulle are for sale. An underground movement leader who had escaped from a concentration camp and had been chased through Europe by the Nazis wants to buy the two Letters of T ... t at the Cafe. He tells Rick he is a Czechoslovakian freedom fighter and he has just escaped from a Concentration Camp. His desperation is quite evident to Rick. Ilsa is the lady he loved in Paris and ...

(3 pages) 115 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Anne Frank

life without freedom made you sadThe Secret Annexe lit by a lamp,But i'm sure it was better than a concentration campYou were in thee for so many minutes, hours and days,But still you were happy in s ...

(1 pages) 59 1 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Book: the diary of anne frank author: frances goodrich

of Anne frank. When in a time hitter ruled and wanted a non-Jew world. So he begins putting Jews in concentration camps the frank's in fear for their lives went into hiding.Since the Nazi laws restric ... she can.Nazi police, sent a call-up notice for her father and for Margot for their deportation to a concentration camp so they begin to pack, Anne packs:Her diary, then hair curlers, handkerchiefs, sc ...

(2 pages) 25 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"Night" by Elie Wiesel Comment on the final staement of Elie Wiesel's "Night".

.Eliezer Wiesel is free at last, but freedom does not seem joyous at all, because back at the empty concentration camp in Auschwitz, where Hitler and his nefarious Nazi have murdered countless innocen ...

(1 pages) 122 1 1.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning in his work Man's Search for Meaning

In his work Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl narrates his experience in a concentration camp which led to his development of logotherapy, a form of existential psychoanalysis ... development of logotherapy, a form of existential psychoanalysis. He was an abused prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, and there he found himself contemplating to his own bare existence. His entire ... ossessions as well as much of his life's work were taken from him. In the brutal environment of the concentration camps, he was threatened with immediate death at all times. One wonders how he could r ...

(5 pages) 168 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Movie Analysis of "Life Is Beautiful".

oreign Comedy that took place in the 40's.Suddenly the main characters are imprisoned and sent to a concentration camp. But it's different than watching any other movie where the main characters are s ...

(2 pages) 139 2 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Elsie v

us will always be a memory I will never forget. I am Elsie, a Jew that was taken from my home to a concentration camp during World War II. We had to leave every thing we had with no preparation. Befo ...

(2 pages) 55 1 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

VIKTOR FRANKL

oung doctor, his new bride, his mother, father, and brother, were arrested in Vienna and taken to a concentration camp in Bohemia. It was events that occurred there and at three other camps that led t ... r of that year, he, his wife, his father, mother, and brother, were all arrested and brought to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt in Bohemia. His father died there of starvation. His mother and ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Biography on Elie Weisel

small Jewish family. When he was sixteen years old, him and his family where taken to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. After about three months, he and his father were transferred to Buchen ... nally, think Elie Weisel is one of the most horrific people alive today. Throughout his time in the concentration camps, there were many times he had wanted to give up, and watched others give up. Des ...

(4 pages) 33 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Badges of the Holocaust

of it. Let me begin by giving you some background of what I am talking about. See if you agree.The concentration camp was one weapon in the campaign to bring state and society into conformity with th ... Homosexuals, political prisoners, and Jehovah's Witnesses are among the groups who were sent to the concentration camps for reeducation.( ) They were supposed to renounce their particular orientation. ...

(2 pages) 26 0 2.3 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

The Holocaust

d how hard it was to be taken from your family, robbed of everything you owned and to be taken to a concentration camp were you were either immediately put to death or worked to death. In a way Jews a ...

(1 pages) 55 4 2.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II