memoir Night by Elie Wiesel demonstrates the struggles that persecuted prisoners face inside the camps during the Holocaust. Between 1939-1945, more than six million people were imprisoned in concentration and death camps by the Nazi soldiers. Most of these people were Jews, Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and communists. In the memoir, Eliezer is a Jewish teenager who is imprisoned in various camps and faces daily brutality from the Nazi’s. Mental, physical, and emotional dehumanization cause
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” is a quote by Eliezer Wiesel, the author of Night. The quote explains how remembering those who have departed from us is important and pays tribute to their loss. However, dismissing it would just be as bad as killing them again. The Holocaust was one of the biggest events in human history, considering the mass genocide of over six million Jews and the extreme anti-semitism that occurred. It is truly important to study the Holocaust
The theme of man’s inhumanity to man has been explored in many films and texts throughout history. This theme is evident in the film, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, directed by Mark Herman, the poem The Ballad of Birmingham, written by Dudley Randall, the poem Strange Fruit, written by Abel Meeropol and the novel The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak. The film, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, explores the theme of man’s inhumanity to man, and is seen by the terrible actions of the Nazis against the
discrimination against the Maya is evident throughout the history of Guatemala, specifically the genocide of the Maya that occurred during 1981-1983. The genocide of the Maya population demonstrates how genocide is a prevailing issue characterized by the dehumanization, injustice, decimation, and incrimination of a certain race and that all nations and their peoples are responsible for obviating. The genocide of the Maya that transpired during the sixteenth century