Night 2-24-16

Prompt: How do Elie's experiences during the Holocaust  change him as a person.

          The Holocaust changed Elie's life completely in many ways, one is when Elie and his religion. In the beginning of the book Elie is very religious and then in the middle of the book he starts to question if god's even real and begins to lose faith. At the end of the book Elie soon comes back to his religion for that is the only thing that he has.

          In the beginning of the book Elie Wiesel is very religious, in the book on page 3 (new edition) it says "By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogues to weep over the destruction of the Temple.". Right away you cant tell that he is highly pious man. Later in the book we are introduced to Moshe who is also very religious and plays almost like a mentor for Elie. In the book on page five it says "And Moshie the Beadle, the poorest of the poor of Sighet, spoke to me for hours on end about the Kabbalah's revelations and its mysteries."to me this quote shows how Elie was very devout in his religion and was very passionate in his religion.

          Later on in the book Ellie starts to question god's existence and this really does change Elie's attitude. In the book on page 33 when Elie is marching he begins to hear people pray and he then says "For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why would I want to sanctify his name? The almighty the terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent." .A little bit later in the book on page 34 where it says "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes. Never shall I forget those things, ever were I condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." This quote shows how Ellie himself and his Views on God is starting to change and  soon starts to lose himself.

          Towards the end to the book Elie starts to get back into religion because of what the Rabi's son has done. Near the end of the book the Rabi started to run quick intentionally to get aways from his father because he believe the he would only slow him down and so what Elie does is pray that he will never end up like the Rabi's son because he doesn't want to end up like him and abandon his father. In the book on page 91 he says "It was good that I had forgotten all that. And I was glad that Rabbi Eliahu continued to search for his beloved son. And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. 'Oh god, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son had done". This quote shows me on how no matter what Elie still has that faith because he hopes to never do something that bad to his father because at that moment that the only person he has.

          After reading this book I have learned on how the Holocaust had a huge impact on not only Elie's life but other peoples lives. Elie has gone from worshiping to not liking god and his experience must have been very traumatic. Elie has lost his mother, seen babies burn, watch his father die, to many other things however he continuously kept on moving in life and that's honestly very inspirational. I feel like I myself take things for granted and this book has taught me to cherish the things that I have while I still have them because, you never know when they may be taken from you.

         

Night by Elie Wiesel

Prompt: List at least three problems the character has faced. Which one would be the most life changing?

          One challenge that Elizer faced while in the concentration camp was keeping his faith. This was a giant struggle considering on how in the beginning of the book he was highly pious. Now in the book he is doubting his religion considering on how God isn't currently helping others which makes him doubt that he's even real. In the book Elizer sees multiple people being hanged and this causes him to wonder why is God not helping.

          Another problem that Elizer faced during his time in the concentration camp would have to be trying to help his father. This was a huge problem because Elizer wanted to help however if he were to help he would probably die for trying to interfere with the Nazi's goals. In the book when Elizers father gets slapped Elizer wants to help however has this fear of being hurt while attempting to help or trying to step in because he could possibly make things worse.

          The biggest problem that Elizer had to face would probably having to part from his mother and sister forever. I think that this would be a major problem because he hasn't seen them ever again and it isn't really mentioned all that much however just thinking of never seeing your mother and sister ever again seems very sad. To me I would be completely crushed however Elizer seems to be okay but I feel like he's hiding his pain.

Holocaust Aow Impressions

Holocaust Aow Impressions
2.13.15

          One thing that I learned throughout the gallery walk would be on how a US Nazi Hunter has one last case. The Nazi hunter's name is Eli Rossen Burn and she is well known for her prior cases. The last Nazi is allegedly to old to go back to Germany so they decided to leave the man in NYC because they think that if they were to take him back to Germany that the man will die so they decided to leave him in NYC. Eli Rossen Burn thinks that this man is the last Nazi however some people disagree.

          Another thing that I learned throughout the gallery walk was how Survivors of the Holocaust really are trying to teach young children about what had happened so that the children can try to make a difference if something like this were to happen again. Jewish speakers around the world are trying let people know that we need to help with the Syrian refugee crisis and how it can't only just be Jewish people it has to be everyone because we've seen the outcome of the Holocaust so we should all make a change and help.

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Berlin Memorial Activity Blog

Berlin memorial activity blog
2/3/16

          During the Berlin memorial activity what I learned was how many things were taken away from Jewish people through the years of 1933-1945. Some things that were taken away from the Jews were their jobs. Since the Jews lost their jobs their was no income meaning people didn't have much money. The Jews gradually as time went on lost about everything, the Jews had lost not only their jobs but some necessities they needed to have to stay alive such as milk and eggs. The Jew had also lost some ways that they would be entertained or ways that they would be able to have fun like going to a pool or going to see an opera.

          I think that the monument was built to teach younger people learning about the holocaust that this was real and some of the laws etc. I also think that this monument was built to help commemorate all of the people who died during the holocaust considering how Berlin is the capital and thats were most of the laws were made and the decisions that Hitler made were also made there.

           A pattern that I noticed with the laws are that each of them have one huge thing happening in the same year which could potentially change or affect the laws that came out. I think that Hitler mainly started to slowly strip away rights from the Jews slowly because he didn't want to make it look like he hated them out of no where. I noticed that in the year 1933 Hitler joined so when he first came in he wanted to show how he would become powerful so he striped the Jews of SOME rights.

          I think that something that would be hard for me to deal with is the law on Animals saying how any Jewish person couldn't own any pets. I think this because personally my dog is the love of my life. I feel like if someone were to take it away I would be really sad and mad because its mine so why would you take it away? I mean it could be worse for example the Nazi's taking away my family members or taking me away however it is kind of similar in away because
both for me are family.