Upon entering a camp, the Jews were separated. They were separated into women, children, working age, men, and the old. ... Then once they did arrive at the camps, they were separated and place with people they did not know. ... Life was stripped from them and in return handed a small piece of hell that they could call their own. Though there were those who were fortunate enough to witness better days, some were left with that small piece of hell as their final destiny. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After we got through the line, the soldiers began to separate the men from the women. ... They took us to another sorting area, to separate the children from the men. ... Dinner was a piece of bred, and water or coffee. ... The man said, "If anyone else would like to try to steal a piece of bread, go ahead." ... My little brother, only nine years old, was shot and killed for stealing a little piece of bread. ...

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The main reason the treaty failed to keep the peace is because the Allies all had separate agendas. ... All of the othe smaller Allied countries wanted more land or more people, mostly wanting a piece of the spoils.(2) The meeting where they decided on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles as well as many other items was called the Paris Peace Conference. ... Some countries such as Italy, Poland and Greece all wanted a piece of the action. ... The colonies were split up between the Allies; Britain, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all got a piece of the action. Germany lost a lit...

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Wiesel, after being separated from his mother and sister (Wiesel 29), was almost killed along with his father in the crematorium (34). Along, with almost being killed, Wiesel has suffered from severe beatings from The Kapos to a point where he is used to them (36), he has witnessed a son beat his father to death over a piece of crust (101), and has watched the execution of a little boy (64). ...

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"As for me I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father". ... The Jews had to worry about eating a piece of bread, if they were going to be burned or beaten to death, or if they would still be alive during the next hour of their lives. ...

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He found it extremely hard to separate his fantasies from the real world of reality. ... It dove deep into Hitler's personality, and piece by piece, explained and interpreted all of his character traits, as well as defects. ...

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Existence exceeds Companionship A person's beliefs and values transform with death lingering at every waking moment. In Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, Wiesel estranges himself from his companions and morals to survive the Holocaust. It is expected that the Holocaust survivors would lose faith in God, their determination to go on living, and their reliance in others because of the horrific experiences that they faced day to day. It is understandable that a Holocaust survivor questions his faith in God when Jews are chanting the prayer of death for themselves. A person would questio...

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Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the...

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• Grade Level: High School