Anguish

–noun
1.
excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.
–verb (used with object)
2.
to inflict with distress, suffering, or pain.
–verb (used without object)
3.
to suffer, feel, or exhibit anguish: to anguish over the loss of a loved one.

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1) Hell
Hundreds of thousands of Jews were piled into trains to be taken to some sort of Hell. They had no idea where they were going but they had to leave everything behind to be transferred "for their own good". They didn't know what they were getting into but they had no choice.

2) Gloom
Jews were being taken against their will. Loosing everything, jewelry, house, family, everything. The Jews were beaten and tortured.

3) Regret
Some of the Jews blamed themselves for being in the situation they were in. Some of them thought, "I could have done something to prevent my family from going through this." But there was nothing they could do. Their fate was inevitable now, and in the hands of the S.S. guards.

4) Penitence
Parents could no longer protect their own children. They wished they could shield their children's eyes from the horrors of Auschwitz. But they couldn't, no one could. The Nazis would even make some fathers kill their own children.

5) Suffering
The people in this picture might look happy. But they amount of suffering that they are going through is awful. The Nazis could have told the people in this very crowded room that if they don't smile and look happy for the camera and make everything look fine then they will be punished.

6) Torture
Nazis would torture they Jews and run experiments on them. All kinds of horrible experiments that usually ended up killing most of the prisoners. And if the experiments didn't kill you, you would be severely ill. And since you were ill and couldn't work they would end up killing you anyway.

7) Despair
It's obvious that these people are treated like dogs. And starved to near death. They didn't do anything to deserve this, but to be different. They are packed into these crowded blocks.

8) Regret
This picture could possibly have many meanings. Such as they could have once been friends. But then separated because one was a Jew and one was not. Or another possibility is the boy inside just wants to go home, and the other boy could be the son of one of the workers in the camp. He knows what they Jews go through but he can't do anything about it. Whether or not he believes in what is right.

9) Heartache
Millions were killed, men, women, and children. Because of what they believe in, or their lifestyle choice. People had to watch their own children and family die.

10) Disgrace of their bodies.
There was no proper burial for these men. They were treated like wild animals. But these men are lucky in the other's eyes. They got to die and not go through they pain that all the other Jew's did. These men were the lucky ones.

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... what life in a concentration camp had made of me (Night, Elie Wiesel, 54)

Ahead of you... a long road of pain and suffering. (41)
Surely it was a dream. (37)
I no longer felt the pain. (36)
We had ceased to be men. (37)
Withered bodies. (63)
What happened to me? (39)
I glanced over at my father. How changed he looked! (37)
He had aged so much. (70)
For the first time, i felt anger rise within me. (33)
Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh. (39)
Had i changed that much? So fast? (39)
We no longer feared death. (60)
The costs... (57)
Deprived me of the will to live. (34)
Flames that consumed my faith forever. (34)
I was alone. (68)
We were lucky... (50)

Who to blame?

If you wanna point fingers at anyone for the main cause of World War II it would more likely than not be Hitler. Even though he isn't the whole cause for World War II and the genocide. Although he did start it all. If he wasn't such a good liar and so easily persuasive. Or were the German people easily persuaded? And just looking for someone to blame. And Hitler gave them that someone. He gave them what they wanted. He over threw so many parts of his government. He pretty much had control of everything. And he had enough power and military strength to conquer any country. If it wasn't for Hitler who knows maybe none of this ever would have happened. There would still be hate but it wouldn't be expressed in any way close to how it was in World War II with concentration camps.
Some others that might be included in the cause of the genocide would be The S.S. Guards and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The S.S. guards were the ones who ran the concentration camps. Nobody said they had to sit by and watch all this death and destruction of a single race. They contributed to the pain and anguish of the Jews and the handicaped. They carried out the wishes and hatred Hitler bistowed upon the Jews. While hurting the Jews, whiping, shooting, beating, abusing the Jews do you think they knew what they were doing? Do you think they even have regrets from what they have done. Or did they enjoy it? Thats just sick. Now im sure some S.S. guards tried to help. There must have been, just like during the civil war white people would help African Americans escape from the farms they slaved and worked on. Atleast one must have known how much pain they were causing and tried to fix it or make sure it never happened again. Now on to the FDR and his contributions to the genocide. He stood by not joining the war or helping defend the Jews. He wanted to stay out of the war. And what he did in American is not quite Genocide but it still hurt a lot of people. What he did to the Japanese, put them in concentration camps. But these concentration camps weren't anywhere near as bad as the concentration camps in Europe. The US thought every Japanese person was the same. And they all wanted the same goals. To conquer America. Once again he is just protecting his own.
The Nazis also contributed to the cause of World War II. The Nazis were Hitler's tool, his weapon, that he weilded when ever he felt someone needed a beating. They would fulfill his every command and attack whom ever he needed to get out of his way or had land that he thought he needed. But Hitler was very persuasive and explained that these people needed to help or this world will be a rotten world.
Religion is a big factor in World War II. There are always fights or wars going on because of religion. Religion plays a big part in our lives. People always disagree on things, especially religion, sometimes it gets violent and lives are then lost. Many lives that never needed to be taken. I'm not saying the Jews should be punished for believing what they believe. But people should have the right to believe what ever they want to believe. It's not someone else's place to pick and choose their lifestyle. Or maybe I'm just become ignorant because of the society and constitution that we live by here in the U.S.A.. But the Jews should not be punished because of what they believe in. No one should.
I'm not sure if the invention of the Atom bomb started the war or ended it. It could have possibly scared other nations into thinking that we had to much power and resources that we might take over the world and control it. They might have thought that they had to take any chance they get to make this from not happening. But dropping the Atom bomb on Hiroshima must have scared Germany and Japan atleast a little. To make them back off some and feel the power of FDR's big stick. FDR said, "Speak lightly but carry a big stick". Or something like that.
I think Hitler is mostly to blame though. None of this would have happened or should have happened. But since Hitler had his reasons to start this huge and horrible war, it started. And ended badly.

Fire

On a train to a Birkenau a women who had lost her mind, and who also lost her family after an accidental separation getting sent off to the camps, was yelling about a fire. She was staring out the window yelling about a non-existent fire. She was beat for yelling because she would not stop yelling at nothing. But once they got closer to the camps there actually was a fire this time. It was a burning chimney jutting out from a corner of a camp off in the distance. Elie Wiesel said, "And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky" (Elie Wiesel, Night, 28). Mrs. Schachter was yelling about a fire the whole ride but no one knew what it had meant. Still no one knew what the fire meant but there was a horrible stench in the air of burning flesh.

Fire has wreaked havoc on this world for millions and millions of years. But sometimes fire is not always man made and sometimes it is a good thing for forests and good things came from it. But not this fire. The fire coming from the chimney was made from pure hatred and evil. This fire was used to burn the Jews transported to these camps if they were running out of space or if they were dead. Its disgusting that people could do this to other people. An inmate said to Elie and his father, "Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them? ... Over there, that's where they will take you. Over there will be your grave ... You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!" (Elie Weisel, Night, 31). The chimney is where they will burn the prisoners in the camps. Elie says its a horrible way to die and would much rather thrust himself into the electric fence. His father does not object to that. This man would rather see his son thrown into an electric fence than watch him burn to a crisp. He would much rather never see his son again and have him go with his mom rather than seeing the amount of pain they will go through during their stay in the concentration camps.
This fire coming from the chimney is not a good fire. Its a horrible fire that has killed many people. The guards of the camps even make Jews work in the chimney and make them burn other Jews, their own people, their own innocence. What the Germans did to the Jews is just awful. I never knew or understood how bad this actually was until i read the first part of Night. It's horrible and disgusting. Elie saw men throwing children, and babies into a burning ditch. I know i wouldn't be the same person if i saw something like that. It had to be traumatizing. This brings pity and sadness to me. I can't believe human beings had to go through this. And eventually after seeing it day after day it must really get to them, seeing children thrown into a ditch, and the smell of burning flesh, knowing that that could be one your friends that's floating around in the ashes above you. This should have never happened and should never happen again.

Don't hate, appreciate

Hate changes as you grow up. When your a child you hate people that call you stupid or trip you or something. But as you grow up you gain new reasons to hate someone for. When your an adult you could hate someone for stealing your car, hurting you or a loved one, identity theft. The feelings of hate seem to get worse as you get older. And as your older you have more advanced ways to deal with hate. You could either take revenge or shake it off and keep going with your life. But not many people can just shake it off and seek revenge. Some people also have no reason to hate, they just can't find anything better to do with their lives, or they have some sort of problems, or people have hated on them before. These people try to compensate by hating on other people. Just like a bully when you are a kid in elementary school. But it's a lot worse because they are usually a lot more powerful. A huge amount of hate comes from religion. There have been many wars fighting about religion. Hate is present in everything.

Like in the Holocaust in World War II, Hitler hated Jews. He could have hated the Jews because of a past bad experience with them or it could be he is just abusing his newly gained power. "Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany" - from his autobiography 'Mein Kampf'. This quote shows the power that he had and how he would abuse it. He thought they were imperfect and should be exterminated from the gene pool of Europe. Hitler hated many groups of people, he hated Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, people with disabilities, soviet prisoners of war, soviet civilians, gypsies, ethic poles, and other religious or political opponents. If you didn't believe what Hitler believed or looked the way Hitler wanted you to look he would have hated you.
In the United States today is probably African Americans or Mexicans. There is always racist jokes or comments floating around a filled room. Another group that is greatly discriminated against is homosexuals. Americans are always saying, "that's gay" when what they are trying to say is that's stupid. There will always be discrimination just like there always has been. Between animals the weakest one is always cast out. Even though discrimination comes in different forms it will always be present. Discrimination is a disease.

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I am Ian Swensson. I am reading Night for the class of Miss Kubsch. Night is a book about World War II.