Examples Of Antisemitism In The Book Night

Throughout the memoir Night by Elie Weisle the Jewish race were faced with many struggles in the concentration camps. In the Holocaust the Jewish people were targeted by the German Nazi Party, including Elie Wiesel and his family. The Holocaust consisted of a variety of dreadful things. The Jews were forced into ghettos, deported to concentration camps, selected to live or die, and walk a death march that consisted of four hundred and fifty miles. Over millions of Jewish were murdered, especially elderly, women, and children. The Jewish did not have a choice whether they lived or not, if they were not healthy the German SS officers would kill them. Through the Holocaust the Jewish were faced with persecution of antisemitism relying on the choiceless choices they made to survive.

Elie Wiesel and his family were deported from the town Sighet to camp Auschwitz. Elie and his town were gathered into train carts vigorously. The German SS officers shouting ”if anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs” (24). While on the train carts there were an average of eighty Jews in one cart, Elie saying “there was little air, thirst became intolerable, as did the heat” (23). Although the Jews of Sighet were warned they did not listen. Once at the camp, the Jews faced the inevitable. Another choiceless choice the Jewish faced was the selection. Once the Jews arrived at the camp the Jewish were separated “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29). Families were split, and would most likely never see one another again. The women, elderly, and children were taken to the crematorium and murdered. While the men were forced into physical labor, getting only a handful of food a day. Most who work were starved of food and water, the average a Jew would live was four weeks. The Jews and others would be worked to death until the end of the