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…of Japanese­American loyalty and innocence, but the information was not always well known. This, coupled with the factors of war hysteria led to the legal upholding of concentration camps. The injustice was clouded, most immediately by the war, and indirectly by racism…

…place. Attempting to prove that the holocaust never happened seems virtually impossible given the known exhistance of concentration camps in Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Westerbork, to name a few. In Martin Gilbert’s “Holocaust…

…place. Attempting to prove that the holocaust never happened seems virtually impossible given the known exhistance of concentration camps in Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Westerbork, to name a few. In Martin Gilbert’s “Holocaust…

…Civilization in Borowski’s concentration camp is an embodiment of peoples’ values. Many value systems conflict and mix, yet only the inhumane, unnatural values of the Nazi system exists. The prisoners can either accept these values in resignation…

…and fight for what he believes is best for the people of his nation. Hitler established concentration camps as part of his plan to rid Germany of the Jews. Dr. Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) was a psychologist who was imprisoned in one of these concentration…

…in Germany. He started the concentration camps that Jews were sent to and killed at. Altogether he put to death millions of Jews and other races. In the beginning of the book Anne and her family are still doing their daily tasks; going to school and work…

…. The quality of life of even highly assimilated Jews, like the Franks, became precarious. Within two years after these anti-Semitic laws were imposed, many Jews in the Netherlands were harassed, arrested, and sent to concentration camps, where they were herded…

…for the brilliant descriptions found in Night and the feeling that you were walking in Elie's shoes, if he literally had any, Night opens the readers mind to the atrocities of the holocaust and concentration camps. We take for granted, today, our knowledge…

…. Wiesel, himself, survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and Gleiwitz, all German concentration camps, where atrocities such as cremation and murder hung thickly in the air like a heavy cologne. Born September 30, 1928, Eliezer Wiesel led a life…

…in hiding, and occasionally Anne does address the greater tragedy of the Holocaust. In the end of the book they were discovered and taken to a concentration camp. At first the two families stuck together, and were later eventually separated. Anne…