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A 4 page research paper that encompasses 4 short 1-page essays on topics related to the Holocaust. Topics include discussion of the first chapter of Elie Wiesel’s Night; reaction to Wiesel’s first hours in Auschwitz; discussion of images from Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog; and discussion of chapter 1 from Wiernik’s A Year in Treblinka. No additional sources cited.
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Elie Wiesel introduces his protagonist, a 12-year-old boy named Eliezer, the only son of an Orthodox Jewish family. Moshe the Beadle, Eliezers former teacher, returns to the community, having
escaped from the Nazis and warns that the deportation trains lead to death at the hands of the Gestapo (the German secret police). Moshes warning is too horrific and
no one believes him. Similarly, Eliezers father comments about being forced to wear a yellow star, which identifies the wearer as a Jew. His fathers attitude is philosophical, as he
says, "What of It? You dont die of it" (Wiesel 9). Of course, the reader knows that being identified as Jewish is precisely what will be the cause of his
death. The point of this opening is to underscore the fact that people will resist believing that ultimate evil does exist and that the continuum of their everyday lives is
impermanent and crumble easily when facing tyranny. The Jews of Eliezers community do not heed the warning of Moshe. They beat a poor woman on the train who has
a precognition about the furnaces that await them. Similarly, it is to be hoped that the authors testimony about the cruelty to which human beings are capable will not be
ignored, lest genocide should reoccur. 2. Response to Eliezers first hours in Auschwitz : It is difficult to imagine the horror that the author felt at being confronted with
the ultimate evil. Even now, the denial of his father is evident as he says that what they are seeing is impossible and that this would never be tolerated. They
must have felt that they had been transported to Hell. The treatment of the Nazis is systematically designed to rob their prisoners of having any sense of their own humanity,
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