Question

Which best describes why Wiesel and Spiegelman include Jewish children in their works? Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust. Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children. Both excerpts focus on the children who survived the Holocaust and the generations that followed. Both excerpts show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.

Answer 1

Eliezer Wiesel is the one who best describes Jewish children in his works since his works are based on his experiences as a holocaust survivor in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, located in Poland; and in the camp of Buchenwald, Germany. Being a child tells the aberrations he saw and lived on other children who were killed, as well as his father and sister. At his 16, he was released from the Buchenwald camp with the help of the US Army and since then he tells how the Nazis snatched his childhood, his innocence, his family, his faith and his soul. Instead, Art Spiegelman tells the story of the Jewish children from the perspective of his father who was a Holocaust survivor. His work was based on his interview with his father about his experiences as a survivor.