The Holocaust was a time in history that was very very difficult. Hitler who was the leader of Germany, had much hatred towards Jewish people, because of this hatred, he acted very negatively towards the Jews. Lots of the time people don't understand how bad it actually was for Jewish people. Hitlers acts of hatred were so bad and harmful to the Jews. Hitlers goal was to rule the world and he did not want anyone that he did not like in his way, so he tried getting rid of them all. There are so many first hand accounts of all of these things Jews went through in the holocaust. So many terrible things were happening to Jews and to any people that Hitler and the Nazis did not like. Survival was very hard for the Jews. Sometimes though, it was …show more content…
Towards the end of the story in the memoir “ Night” the Jews were running and if they stopped they would get shot. As they are running Ellie says to himself repeatedly, “ Don’t think, don’t stop, run”(Wiesel 86)! At this point in time Elie could have just given up and died because of all the suffering he was going through. Instead he kept going and made sure he would stay alive through all the pain. A while later people were still struggling and everything was just getting worse. People were not getting any better. Everyone's strength was gone and all that was left was weakness. As they are sitting there suffering, Meir Katz says to Elie’s father “Shlomo, I am getting weak. My strength is gone. I won’t make it…”(Wiesel 102). Elie’s father then replies, “ Don’t give in! You must resist! Don't lose faith in yourself” (Wiesel 102). People tried the best that they could to be encouraging to the people they knew but at the same time they knew it was not enough. Some people just wanted to die. Meir Katz knew he wasn't going to make it much longer and he could have just given up and stayed there, but the little bit of encouragement helped …show more content…
In the “Diary of Anne Frank”, the Frank family got a letter that Margot had to go to the camps. At this point, they knew that they then had to hide. They needed to do anything to stay away and hidden from the Nazis. They decided to hide above a work building that people did not know about in the attic. This was their way that they were going to be living life as long as they needed too. As the Frank family got there and settled in, Mr. Frank strictly told everyone, “The men come at about eight-thirty and leave at about five-thirty. So to be perfectly safe from eight in the morning to six in the evening we must only move when necessary. We must not speak above a whisper. We must not run any water. We can not use the sink or even forgive me the w.c. The pipes go down through the workrooms. It would be heard. No trash…” (Goodrich & Hackett 108). There were so many things they could have done. They didn't even have to go into hiding, they could have just went to the camps like the Nazis wanted. Instead they chose to survive no matter what that meant. They were going to do anything. Instead of giving up they hid and knew that they had to do all of these things that Mr. Frank was telling them because they wanted to be able to stay hidden for as long as possible no matter what that
During the 1940’s, the Nazis gained control over Germany. As the persecuting of the Jews increased the Frank family went into hiding. On Monday, July 6th, 1942 the Frank family went into hiding behind a book case where Anne’s father used to work or known as the secret annex.
A sliver of hope was all one needed to keep going, to keep persevering, once that was gone, they believed there was nothing left for them. A glimmer of kindness could be the line of rope between life and death. Elie luckily had a few encounters of positive lessons/outcomes, that may have just saved him. Once Ellie and his family were loaded onto cattle cars, and travel all night, they arrive at Auschwitz. Everyone was first separated, the men from the women.
“I had neither the desire to nor the resolve to get up. Yet I obeyed”(88). This can show some of Elie's endurance and integrity. Despite not even having the drive or motivation to stand he did it because he knew it was better than death and laying down in the snow. One more time Elie sought out advice and presented his perseverance.
All throughout the book Elie had shown signs of distress when he was threatened with losing his father. A great example of this was when they had to run past the SS doctors and Dr. Mengele as fast as they could, because they believed if they got their right arms number written down it would be certain death. Elie went first and waited for his father for what seemed like eternity and finally he saw his father heading towards him. Then they immediately asked each other, "Did you pass? Yes.
Do you hear me? Eighteen and Forty¨(Wiesel30).With Elie and his father having this information from the inmate they were able to stay side by side throughout their time in the concentration camps. A different inmate that Elie met later on in the Night chose to give him some words of inspiration to keep moving.¨We all are brothers and share the same fate. The same smoke hovers over all our heads¨(Wiesel 41).This quote shows that not all people are selfish and are willing to give a helping hand. At this point in the story Elie
In the beginning of the story, Elie goes through traumatic experiences with questioning his religion and even contemplating suicide. Elie speaks out by stating, “That's what I wanted to do. To scream out, to cry out—to die. But I no longer had the strength to do so. I was alone.
Throughout the horrific experiences in the concentration camp, Elie and his father had to learn to look out for each other even when it was everybody for themselves. Towards the end of Night, Elie, his father, and other prisoners were on a “death” march to another camp to avoid being liberated by the Russians. The march was extremley gruesome, mostly because everyone was in such poor physical shape. When they had been resting at a small town, Elie’s fatehr kept making sure Eile didn’ fall asleep… falling asleep would risk dying from exhaustion. After arriving at the new camp, Elie’s father fell ill with dysentary.
The amount of death that Elie witnessed made him numb to the loss of someone. He remained stong, hopeless but strong. Throughout the book Elie speaks about God putting the Jewish people in this situation and how he feels he can’t pray to a God that would do such a thing. Elie no longer pleaded with God to save the victims of the Holocaust. Elie clung to the thought that he would do this with his father in the small idea that they could some how make it out alive, and that is why he remained strong.
The Holocaust was a horrible period in the history of the world. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, about six million Jews were slaughtered for no decent reason. In William Lace's book, The Death Camps, he stated that not only Jews were killed, there was about five million Gypsies and other people that were murdered too (16). There was no way that anyone could stop the Nazis from killing innocent people.
An important quote I found from chapters seven through nine was, “Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight” (99). This quote is saying that Elie had given up all the hope he had left to live. He was ready and prepared to die because he felt as though there was no reason left for him to live. This quote is important to Elie’s experiences because he saw so much sickness, weakness, and death that made him lose hope in his survival. He saw people dying right in front of his eyes and knew there was nothing he could do to help them.
Elie found his strength through his father during the Holocaust. He would have died if it was not for him. When Elie was so close to being liberated he faced one of the hardest points in his journey “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. No longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot.
The life of Jews was very hard during the holocaust. There were many hardships they had to face. Most were either taken to concentration camps- or they were forced to go into hiding. In the book, “Number the stars,” Annemarie 's best friend, Ellen, and her family were forced to split up and go into hiding.
In his memoir, Elie Wiesel writes, “Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (113), showing that his reason for living had left him. He also states that he had “only one desire: to eat. [He] no longer thought of [his] father…” (113), which allows the reader to comprehend that with no reason to live, instinct had taken over. Somehow, he indifferently fought to survive, but it was very clear that his beliefs on life had changed
He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support” (Wiesel 86-87). Elie told himself that he had to live because his only family was now his father. Because of this, Elie realized that if he died then his father would be alone and he would lose all of his motivation to keep on going without Elie.
When people hear the word “Holocaust” they instantly think about how cruel and horrible this time was for the Jewish people. The Holocaust was a time where many of people suffered, were terrified, and had to live in disgusting conditions. The jewish people were put into concentration camps where they were forced to work and in the end most of them died, but if they were lucky were able to escape or lived long enough to be freed. In the very beginning, Adolf Hitler’s Nazis separated these people from their families to be placed into different concentration camps which is upsetting to think about. The biggest concentration camp where most of the Jews went and were killed was Auschwitz.