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"The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us. Yet all of that was nothing compared to her screams, which tore us apart. A few more days and all of us would have started to scream." (Wiesel, Pg. 26)

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Fear is a big emotion conveyed throughout Night. In the quote i cited the author is describing the conditions in the cattle car that he was squished into with other people from his town. The smell of all of their bodies together, the warmth they call created from how close they were. In the text he talks about a scared and mentally ill woman, Mrs. Schachter, and her screams throughout the car. He implies the rest of the people in the car might start screaming if they continue to live in these stressful conditions.

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Never Shall I forget the night my father died

Never shall I forget the day he risked his life for Hitler

Never shall I forget the feeling of the bullet holes in his shirt

Never shall I forget the night I learned he had died from one of Hitlers own weapons

Never

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My poem is based around the first few chapters of the novel "Prisoner of Night and Fog". The poem specifically references a scene at the beginning of the book where Gretchen slowly starts to understand her father was shot by someone behind him.

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Here is Hungarian Jews getting onto a cattle car in 1944.

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"Had she become that horse- beaten and bloodied but still serving its master without question? A beast of burden. An easily dismissed pet." (Blankman, Pg 97)

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In this book, Gretchen, the main character of the story feels a lot of self doubt. She is unsure of how to feel about her Uncle Dolf (Hitler), and his politics. At the beginning of the story is apart of the National Socialist Party, which then turns into the Nazi party when World War 2 starts. She has moments of doubts throughout the book, where she cites what Hitler has said during a discussion, or an argument with Daniel Cohen, the main boy in the story. People tell her that she is "still under the influence of Hitler" during these moments in the story. She is scared to be wrong with the decisions she makes.

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Adolph Hitler at a gathering of National Socialist Party

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I find it interesting how different Gretchen is at the beginning compared to the end of the novel. At the beginning of the story she doesn't understand what Hitler is doing exactly. She believes it must be for the greater good. She also sees Hitler as her 'Uncle', so it is hard for her to not see him in a positive light. Later in the novel she is able to look back on what her family thinks still, and what she now believes about the national socialist party. She grows from what she learns, and is now detached after learning the true meaning of what Hitler is saying.

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Scared:

Night: Elie suffers a lot throughout the story, especially at the beginning when he watches people he knows going to the crematorium.

Prisoner of Night and Fog: Gretchen is unsure of how to feel about the knowledge she gathers throughout the story about her father and Hitler. She fears the future.

Sadness

Night: When Elie's father dies in the story it is a very tragic moment. It feels like there is no hope for the rest of the book, and it has a very sad and distraught tone.

Prisoner of Night and Fog: Gretchen is constantly saddened by the idea of her father after his death. She attempts to look at the good things, but it always lands as a sad moment, and usually she cries at these moments.

Anger

Night:

Prisoner of Night and Fog: Gretchen is angry at the fact that her family didn't care that her brother beat her up. He severely injured her, and her mother attempts not to bat an eye. Her uncle Dolf (Hitler) doesn't care much either. In his eyes, she deserved it. This is one of the driving forces that allows her to break out of the cage that is her home.

Uncertainty

Night: Elie, while in the camp, has no idea when the war might end. All he has to go off is speculation.

Prisoner of Night and Fog: Gretchen is unsure of who exactly killed her father, and it leaves her unsure of how to feel about what she believes in.

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Pre-War v. Post War

In 'Prisoner of Night and Fog' we learn about how Jewish people were kicked out of presentations for Hitler prior to the war. We learn that Jewish people are already ostracized in the public, because a lot of people stand with the National Socialists already.

In 'Night' we learn what happened during the war. How he was tattoo'ed on his arm, how people were starving & dying because of it. We learn the events that occurred immediately right after the war as well.

'National Socialist' v. Jewish Man

Gretchen believes in Hitlers ideas at the beginning of the story, she believes that it makes sense for the Jewish people to be moved away. She believes that this would be better for them, and the ideas that Hitler has she agrees with.

Elie is a Jewish man who suffers through the holocaust because of the ideas that the "National Socialists" (Nazis) had. His religion, and his ethnicity was something that Hitler and his group fought against.

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Night: Night is a tragic story that gives the reader an insight into how the 2nd world war was for victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

Prisoner of Night and Fog: Prisoner of Night and Fog is a tale about a young woman learning about the beginnings of what the war will be, who learns about the tragic future of what is to come, through attempting to learn about the tragedy of her fathers death.

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There was multiple phases of the Tattoos that victims of the Holocaust received. Initially, prisoners were tattooed on their chest using a metal stamp that could be interchanged. This stamp was pressed into the skin, and then ink was rubbed into the wound. This became very impractical later on.

When Elie was tattooed in Auschwitz in 1944. During this time, he was tattooed with a needle and an inkwell. This was the more practical way to tattoo so many people.

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During World War Two, four countries declared themselves as neutral parties, these countries being Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal and Spain.

At the end of the novel "Prisoner of Night and Fog" Gretchen and her love interest, Daniel, run away to Switzerland. They do this to escape the Nazis who were looking for them. Because Switzerland is a neutral party, the Nazis couldn't follow them there.

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Have they no sympathy?

Have they never dreamed?

The agony we have had to face

The tortured souls of the lost

Lay now, burned alive in their graves

Dead to them

Dead to us, our own spirits

We now haunt the bodies we live in

For this is hell

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This poem I chose I had written using the words I picked out of a document we received in class. When writing I tried to think about the "Never Shall I" poem that we read originally while reading 'Night'. I think that this poem is quite sad, but it conveys a lot about suffering, and what it is to suffer.

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What new information did you learn about this topic?

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What new information did you learn about this topic?

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I learned a lot about what life was like before the war for someone who truly believed that Hitler was doing good. Gretchen, the main character of my story did not understand the wishes that Hitler had for the Jewish people, and seeing that through a young lens, and figuring out what his true intentions were made the war look so much harsher.

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Do you agree with the state requirement that all students should know about The Holocaust? Why?

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Do you agree with the state requirement that all students should know about The Holocaust? Why?

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I think that it is good to learn about tragedy. I believe that we should learn about things like war, and the holocaust. I don't think that I should be learning about it every year though, I think those units should be for like 10th and 11th grade maybe. I also think if I am learning about the Holocaust I shouldn't learn the same things every year. It gets very tiring learning about the Holocaust over and over again during school, especially during the cold winter. It sets the mood for the New England winter and it makes it almost dreadful, so I wish we would learn about the Holocaust later in the year if we were required too.

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What book did a better job of painting the time period of WW2 for you? Why?

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What book did a better job of painting the time period of WW2 for you? Why?

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I think 'Night' did a good job of painting how tragic the events of the Holocaust were. I think 'Prisoner of Night and Fog' gave me the opposite of that. That book gave me insight into what happened before the war with people who believed in the "National Socialist Society" (Even if at the end of my story Gretchen was not apart of them at the end of the novel).

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Which emotions did your book or Night evoke for you? Have you experienced this in a book before?

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Which emotions did your book or Night evoke for you? Have you experienced this in a book before?

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'Night' made me incredibly sad and solemn. It was hard to process how these things we learned about in the story happened in real life. That real people went through the things described in the novel, that the main character was a real man. It was a lot to process, and I couldn't imagine having to live through it and then writing about it.

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Hungarian Jews / Auschwitz / 1944. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. quest.eb.com/images/109_137111. Accessed 4 Jan 2024.

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Adolph Hitler at a gathering of National Socialist Party (Nazi) members of the Reichstag, 1930s. . Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. quest.eb.com/images/300_2290351. Accessed 4 Jan 2024.

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Warsaw Ghetto, Connection Bridge. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. quest.eb.com/images/109_127023. Accessed 9 Jan 2024.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “TATTOOS AND NUMBERS: THE SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING PRISONERS AT AUSCHWITZ” Holocaust Encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/tattoos-and-numbers-the-system-of-identifying-prisoners-at-auschwitz Accessed 9 Jan 2024

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Britannica, The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia. "World War II". Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Jan. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/facts/World-War-II. Accessed 9 January 2024.