Critical Stance:  Wiesel chronicles the gradual dehumanization of the prisoners.  

1. A) Dehumanization:  is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. This can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.

B) The prisoners of the camp showed gradual transformations.  They show gradual transformation throughout the book because toward the beginning of the book they had a string relegion and prayed a lot for the help of god.  Toward the middle of the book they start losing their faith in their relgion because they new they were going to die sometime throughout their journey.

C) The behavior that i noticed in Elizer is that he lost faith in his religion.  The changes that I noticed in him is that he had grown more mature.

2. A) 

Holocaust

The word “Holocaust,” comes from the Greek words “holos” which means whole, and the word  “kaustos” which means burned, was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Ever since 1945, the word holocaust has taken on a new meaning. The holocaust is now known as the mass murder of 6 million European Jews as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals, having killed 11 million people total. The Nazis thought Jews were racially superior and they were a threat towards the Germans.

During the holocaust many innocent citizens died throughout this time.  Jewish people  were not the only ones targeted but many others were as well.  The Nazi army targeted people such as Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and the disabled for persecution.  Whoever tried to resist the Nazi will also be forced to labor or even murder. “By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators  killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the Final Solution.” Millions of Jewish people were killed because the Germans felt that they were a threat. During the holocaust about 11 million people died and six million of those people were jews. “Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment.” These inhumane acts had scared so many people. So many family members were lost to the holocaust. The holocaust was such a bad time for Jewish people and many others, this deadly time period will never be forgoten.

recent genocide summarys

http://stopgenocidenow.org/blog/2014/12/ambassador-power-support-justice-darfur/  

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