The Similarities Between Anne Frank And Elie Wiesel

Although almost everybody are familiar with the horrors of the Holocaust through the story of Anne Frank and the works of Elie Wiesel, a lesser-known concentration camp in the city of Terezin was a powerful tool for Nazi propaganda during World War II. The city, called Theresienstadt by the Germans, is located in the modern-day Czech Republic. The German Gestapo took over the site, originally an eighteenth-century fortress, in 1940. To the outside world, the people's lives in the camp was presented as a model Jewish community, but in reality, people were overcrowded, starvation was prevalent, disease ran rampant, and most occupants were shipped off to Auschwitz for extermination. Either death at Auschwitz or death at Terezin were the outcome

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The Similarities Between Anne Frank And Elie Wiesel

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