Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Loss of Hearts- Alissa Velasquez Period:3 & Christina Nuno Period:1

    Section 7 - 100 gaunt souls are crammed into roofless cattle cars. Normally this wouldn't be possible but since these prisoners are mostly just bones it worked. Every so often they would stop to throw off the corpses. The trip last 10 days and nights.  His father came very close to death but then again who there didn't? Heartless Germans would toss bread into the cars to taunt and tease the starving Jews and watch them fight to the death for a minor piece of bread. In one bread scenario an elderly man reached for the bread but his own son attacks and beats him to death. His own son! Then the son is trampled and killed as well anyway by others for the bread. One night someone tries to strangle Elie and his father calls on Meir Katz to help. Meir Katz rescues Elie but after this Meir Katz feels he cannot go on. Finally they arrive at Buchenwald. Of the hundred that was loaded into Elie's car, only a mere 12 made it through that trip. Elie and his father were one of those lucky enough to pull through, but sadly was among the dead.  
(Crematorium)
   Section 8 - Elie's father is very weak when they arrive in Buchenwald. All he wants to do is lay is the snow and rest. Elie tries to encourage him to get up but then abandons him when air raid sirens go off. Elie falls asleep. The next morning he goes to look for his father not exactly sure if he wants to find him though. He thinks about what he's been told about doing better without his father dragging him down. He finds his father and gives him his food. he feels guilty that he'd rather keep the food to himself to increase his chances of pulling through.His father only gets weaker and gets dysentery which makes him crave water. His thirst is immense but it is horrible to give someone with this fluid but then again he is dehydrated and dying from both. Either way with out without water is bad for him. The doctors say he is hopeless. He ends up giving him water. Elie is told to give up on his father and focus on him because he should be more important. The next time the man who gave this advice hears his father screaming his beats him. His father calls to him once more but Elie is afraid to answer. The next morning, January 29th, 1945, he wakes to find his father gone to the crematory. But instead of morning over his father, Elie feels free and relief.
Section 9 - After his father's death, Elie continues on with a mindset on survival and food. He no longer has feelings or cares about anything other than feeding his dying body. On April 6th it is announced that the camp's being liquidated and food distribution will stop. On April 10th the last of the prisoners were to be evacuated and the camp blown up but it is postponed until the following day. However, these plans were ruined when the first U.S. tank arrives that next day. The prisoners were freed and all they could think about was food. Nobody cares enough for revenge. A few weeks after Elie got better, he looked at the heartless soul in the mirror that this experience had turned him into. It haunted him for the rest of his life.

"Night" section 7-9, Reyna Corona & Hilary Duarte, Period:2


Chapter 7 : Elie and his father are now riding on the train to Buchenwald. They are tightly packed in cattle cars with 100 other prisoners. During the ride, Nazis gather up all the perished and throw them out of the cattle cars to make room for the dead. While riding, Elies father falls asleep because he is so weak and tired. While the Nazis are throwing out the dead, they try to throw out Elie's father, but Elie refuses. Elie tries to awake his father from a deep sleep by slapping him repeatedly, but fighting off officers at the same time, Elies father eventually awakes but 20 others were thrown out. There they had long days and nights traveling, and as they passed a German town, a man threw a ration of bread into the cattle car and watched as the men fought over it. Day after day , there would be several people, throwing bread into the cattle car , watching as poor prisoners desperately tried to get that little piece of bread. In one of the battles, Elie watched as a young man fought his own father for a piece of bread , and imagined him being that young man. One of the friends named Meir Katz , starts to lose hope because his son was taken from him in the first selection but it had barely hit him , that he lost his son because of all the pain he had endured, he had to be strong, to survive. Others grieved that night, because they had lost so many of their loved ones. By the time they reached their destination (Buchenwald), only 12 of them get off the cattle car and enter the camp.


Chapter 8 : Once arriving at Buchenwald, they are told to form ranks and Elie notices that his father is becoming really weak, but encourages him to keep going with hope of food and rest. His father wants nothing more than to just be allowed to sit and have rest, so he sits down in the snow. An air raid drives everyone into the barracks and Elie falls fast asleep. In the morning Elie starts to look for his father, but not with all his heart. He soon finds him and finds out that he did not get a ration of food and again not with all his heart gives his father his own ration. Later on Elie's father becomes sick with dysentery and begins to cry for water. Elie knows that it is very dangerous to give water to someone who has dysentery, but cannot refuse his father's cries any longer. One day as an SS officer is patrolling the barracks his father begins to cry for water and in an effort to shut him up the SS officer beats his father unconscious. In the morning of January 29, 1945, Elie finds out that is father was taken to the crematory and to his shame he does not weep, but instead feels relief.

This is an image of how the Nazis did selection and chose the Jews' fate.

This image shows the Jews raising the American flag to show they have been liberated and now have their freedom back.

This image is showing how crammed the Jews were on  the cattle cars and they went for days on these with no food, water, or place to reilieve themselves.
Chapter 9: Elie remains in Buchenwald not thinking of his family, but only of food.On April 5 with the American army coming closer and closer the Nazis exterminate all the Jews left in the camp. Daily thousands and thousands of Jews are killed and the American Army is fast approaching. On April 11 the American army liberates the camp and Elie and the prisoners stay to get food. While in Buchenwald he looks at himself in the mirror and thinks that it is not himself and thinks a corpse is looking back at him.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Worse Is Over-Jennifer Rodriguez 2

Americans giving freedom to the Jews

Jews have freedom

Elie doesn't have to deal with torture nor death anymore due to that he's free 

Helping a love one is something any one would do to help them live and try to recover .Elie did all he could to help his father stay alive ,when his father wanted water Elie would fetch some water .Elie didn't want to have his father being taken away from him .Elie didn't want to be alone ,he already lost mother and sisters ,and now he doesn't want to be left alone .This connects to when in the beginning ,Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters in Auschwitz.Till then Elie only had his father with him .He wouldn't let his father fall asleep in the snow nor let him rest when he was tired. He did all he could to help his father live alittle longer.Ever since his father passed away, nothing ever mattered to Elie anymore."With only one desire :to eat.I no longer thought of my father,or my mother "(113).Meaning that Elie didn't have anyone left to be with or take care of , it was only him that was left and he set out to survive and to feast ."At six o'clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald"(115). This meant freedom to every prisoner at Buchenwald .Elie was then finally free from all the misery he had.

Darkness and Disconfort, Ch.7-9, Johnathan Gutierrez, Jonathan olade, johnny camacho, period 2


Section 7 of "night" starts off with Elie and his father are put into cattle cars, they felt very weak and felt that there was no reason to live or to fight. The cattle cars would stop at different places to throw out all the dead. At one point, Elie's fathers did not move, Elie had to slap him so that he would wake up. "Father! Father! wake up. They're going to throw you outside"(99). They did not receive any food nor water for nights and days. The train would pass through german towns, where people would throw bread and coins. Everybody in the cattle cars would fight and straggle each other for a piece of bread. Elie would see children killing there own fathers for bread. One night, a person was straggling Elie, Elie's father got the aggressor. That same night they arrived at there destination, everybody felt very weak, Meir Katz one of Elie's fathers friend stayed in the kattle car. They had arrived at Buchenwald. 

Section 8 of "night" starts of arriving at Buchenwald, the jews formed ranks, where they would take a hot shower. Elie's father did not resist, he was to tired, he couldn't go on, Elie argued with his father to not giver up, but Elie relized that there was no way to convince his father. The sirens then suddenly started, Elie left his father. The next morning, Elie started looking for his father, he looked for him for hours, until he finally found him. He had fever, Elie tried taking care of his father but everyday he was getting weaker and weaker. Elie gave up on his father, he let him die. Elie felt relieved that he did not have any responsibility of his father anymore. "I might have found something like: free at last!"(112)

Section 9 of "night" Elie is still in Bunchenwald until April 10, the war was over. Not everybody was freed, only those who remained in the camp. Of those Elie was freed. When Elie was freed, all he could think of was food. When he gets to see himself in the mirror, he did not recognize himself. 

Elie had been through many things, these years he had been in camps were the worst for him, loosing all his family, and loosing his faith in god.

Jews that have been freed from a camp.
Elie Wiesel after liberation.


Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Jennifer,Hernandez 9-1 "Staying Alive"

Jews were being liberated from camp.
Sections 7,8, and 9 of "Night" were the hardest and most hurtful months that Elie passed through. These last chapters demonstrate  the whole reason for why the book was titled this way. Some of the many struggles that Elie overcomes are hunger, cold temperatures, the loss of his father and facing death. In chapter 7, prisoners are placed in cattle cars after arriving at Gleiwitz. This section of the story seems strange because Elie prays to God so that he can  help him not make the same mistakes that Rabbi Elihou's son had done to his father. He realizes that he has to stick to his father so that they can overcome any challenge together. One thing that Elie will never forget is,seeing how the guards laughed at the prisoners killing each other for a piece of bread. In chapters 8 and 9  the prisoners arrive at Buchenwald after hours of restless running. In this time, Elies father is very ill, he had no strength to keep on living. Elie doesn't want his father to die but is upset with the fact that he doesn't have any hope to continue to stay strong and alive. At the end, Elies father ends up dying of dysentery. Elie in a way feels relieved that his father passed away because this way he can dedicate his time on trying to fight for his own life. On April 10, the camp, Gleiwitz, is liberated. The only thing that comes in mind to Elie, is to eat. These bad moments of his life that Elie went through, will never be forgotten!
Dysentery is the illness that Elies father died from

              
Jewish prisoners preparing to evacuate Buna       

Cynthia and Indira Per. 2

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/images/bodies%20of%20Jews%20murdered%20in%20Lublin%20left%20lying%20in%20the%20snow.jpg we can connect this picture to chapter 7, because in the beginning of the chapter his father was asleep in the train and the solders were looking for the people that couldn't take the the freezing temperature. Elie didn't want to lose his dad so he tried and wake him up, but the solders were about to take him, right there Elie's dad woke up, weak, but he woke up. That is why we choose this picture because they threw the dead jews in the road like if it was just trash, and Elie didn't want that to happen to his bad.


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this picture reminded us about the ending of the book when they are all free but only Elie made it because he doesn't know what happend to his mom or little sister because they got seperated way in the beginning. so hes all alone but at least he made it through.

Sonia Sanchez (Per 2) , Jackiee Salinas (Per 2), Andrew Basulto (Per 3) Mystery of the Dead

      They were being transfered to another camp. How you may ask? Again they traveled by wagon. There on each wagon 100 squished with no air to breathe. Not many survived you may have thought that at least 50 might live? Well you're wrong not 50 not 40 not even 30 lived 20 survived the cattle wagon trip. They traveled days and nights once in a while they had food for them. That was the only way to keep them strong and keep them in agonizing pain. The guards got pleasure of throwing bread and watching them fight for the food. Many disliked the cattle rides. Who would enjoy being stuck in a car for hours and hours even days? I know I wouldn't. Once they found these people dead the grave diggers. Believe it or not one of those people close to death was Elie's father. If you were in that position what would you do? Would you leave him there or follow him?
This is a picture of the cattle cars and all the dead people thrown out of these cars.
Through out the story we find out that Elie's dad is on the verge of death. Elie needs to figure out what to do, he can't accept the fact that his father is about to die. The grave diggers were about to take him but Elie was lucky enough to get him back. He did this by slapping, hitting and screaming out to him. Elie did everything to get well again by bringing him his soup and water. Finally the guards told him that he could no longer get him anything they realized that he no longer had life in him he would eventually die. Before Elie's dad died they were at the Appelplatz camp. As usual they were counted one by one. Elie's father knew he could not go on anymore. He begged and begged until Elie finally agreed to let him sleep there. The next day he remembered that he still had his father so he went out looking for him, and he found him. Later throughout the that time Elies father grew weaker and weaker. On January 29, 1945. Elie had awaken and his father no longer laid on the cot that he had been on there laid another sick person.
Some Infirmaries were crowded and they were never helped

        Elie realized he didn't need his father. After he died Elie almost felt relieved, he didnt have to worry about his father anymore. He can focus on surviving himself. When he died they took roll call and the prisoners found out that the camp was being evacuated. The SS officers were told to evacuate the prisoners one at a time, but then they decided to evacuate all of them at a time. Then the Germans came and started to librate the camp. The officers said to go back to their blocks, they started shooting, and yelling. The Germans won and they were librated. Everyone ran to get food they no longer seeked revenge. They wanted to eat.  Elie was free!!

They Are Finally Free!