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This paper analyzes the story, "Jack and Rochelle," written by Jack and Rochelle Sutin and the memoir by Alexander Donat, titled "The Holocaust Kingdom." It describes the personal experiences of the authors and the horrifying mindset of the oppressors, particularly the Nazis, as it is illustrated in both books. It also looks at the books' depictions of vicious and relentless emotional, physical and psychological abuse the Nazi's targeted at their victims.

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"In The Holocaust Kingdom, written by Alexander Donant, the horrors he experienced were the same. Jews were hated, tortured, and eventually killed - quickly and slowly. Donant, along with other fellow Jews described the way that they felt toward the German occupation: "The feeling we had for the Germans cannot be oversimplified into hatred. Hatred we felt, but the chief emotion was terror. We couldn't think of the Germans as human beings (page 87, The Holocaust Kingdom)." Some of the prisoners in the camps tried to stay as positive as possible and were tired of the German oppression. "Jewish young people who held their heads high, prepared for anything that might happen. Rightly or wrongly, sensibly or not, faithful to Jewish tradition or against it, this portion of the ghetto youth had come to a decision: they had taken enough; they would take no more (page 92, The Holocaust Kingdom)." This shows how the Jews were changing their attitude, they were going to survive or die trying. This quote in The Holocaust Kingdom illustrates this: "There was a stubborn, unending, continuous battle to survive....Jewish resistance was the resistance of a fish caught in a net, a mouse in a trap, an animal at bay. It is a pure myth that the Jews were merely "passive," that they did not put up resistance to the Nazis who had decreed their destruction. The Jews fought back against their enemies to a degree no other community anywhere in the world would have been capable of....they fought against hunger and starvation, against disease, against a deadly Nazi economic blockade. They fought against murderers and against traitors within their own ranks, and they were utterly alone in their fight (page 7, The Holocaust Kingdom).""

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