Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel detailing his experiences in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The memoir takes place in the years 1944 and 1945, and highlights the changes that Elie went through in these years. The memoir begins with Elie and his father being forced out of his home in Sighet and being taken captive by the Nazis. While in the Nazi concentration camps, he is starved, abused, and emotionally scarred, and this auto-biography explains this in detail. In this single year in his life, he undergoes physical, emotional, and mental changes that no child should be subjected to. He is starved and becomes weak and scrawny, he must take care of his father over himself, and he loses his faith in God which was so deeply rooted in him throughout his younger years. …show more content…
Around 6 million Jews were killed and those that survived were starved. In his memoir, Elie Wiesel wrote, “Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” (52). Elie Wiesel was living off of small rations of bread and soup that he would have to make last for a couple of days. He was starving, malnourished, and barely surviving. In chapter 7 of his memoir, Wiesel recalls an instance where a child kills his father for a small piece of bread because of how desperate the child was for food. All the Jews were this desperate for food; they may not have killed others for food, but many, like his father, were not able to survive because of the lack of food. Elie barely survived the Holocaust because of this, and when he first looked in the mirror, he had trouble recognizing