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…was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania to a 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 Buchenwald, another…

…the massive terror of the killing of the Jewish citizens in Europe, along with the concentration camps that they were tortured in prior to death, became known to the world, Winston Churchill stated that the world was being brought face to face with "a crime…

…law student and she is on trial for her work in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Their feelings of guilt and shame lead to Hanna's tragic death near the end of the story. Bernhard Schlink is trying to portray these two emotions in his book as things…

…that Elie's faith in God is absolute, he answers his friend "Why did I pray? ... Why did I live? Why did I breathe?" During the first night at the concentration camps Elie begins to question God's authority after he sees innocent children murdered, "Why should I…

…. It prevented him from his idea of indoctrinating the youth. This is shown by the creation of a special youth section of the Secret Police and a youth concentration camp set up in Neuwied. Resistance of the younger children was less likely to occur because…

…to the slaughter'' as they are often portrayed. In every ghetto and in every concentration camp there was some resistance, whether it be physical, moral, or spiritual. In virtually every ghetto there was a physical revolt. The most well noted is that of the Warsaw…

…nation. The first large scale physical attack occured in November, 1938, after this attack Concentration or Death Camps were set up to rid Europe of Jews. Jews from France, Belgium, Holland, Croatia, Mindk, Norway, Greece, Vilna, and Rome were…

…, the European Jews did not go like lambs to the slaughter as they are often portrayed. In every ghetto and in every concentration camp there was some resistance, whether it be physical, moral, or spiritual. In virtually every ghetto there was a physical revolt…

…on Germany and WW2 began. After the war began the SS quickly followed by rounding up inferior people and sending them to concentration camps, which included Jews, Communists, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and other minorities. Hitler was a hypocrite because he believed…

…enemies of the German people. They would then be put on trains. They were sent to concentration camps. Camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen were all equipped with gas chambers to make the killing process quick. In those camps 6 million Jews…