Auschwitz

A.M. Rosenthal’s essay “No News From Auschwitz”, and Marsha Lederman’s “Going home to Auschwitz”, both contain the emotion of hatred and fear, as well as the remembrance towards Jews of the atrocity that was Auschwitz.
Hatred towards the Jewish people is the first emotion shown in Rosenthal’s essay. “Brzezinka and Oswiecim together formed a part of that minutely organized factory of torture and death that the Nazis called Konzentrationslager Auschwitz,” (304). Rosenthal’s description of Brzezinka illustrates that the Nazis had a strong hatred towards the Jewish people because of their constant torturing and murdering of Jews in concentration camps. On the contrary, however, in Lederman’s essay, the SS shows hatred towards an individual Jewish person on a more personal level than to the Jewish people, for instance, in gas chambers. Lederman explains that her father, when he was back visiting in Poland, wrote in his journal, “I found all mass graves, took s...