The memoir entitled “Night” is the story of the fight for survival. It’s Elie Wiesel’s story of his fight to survive along with his fellow Jews in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Elie’s personal account of this story is both heart wrenching and effective. Hearing Elie’s personal anguish brings the story to life. It’s the story of how people can survive with the barest of means. The personal accounts of what Elie went through and the things that he saw, paints a vivid picture of the holocaust. He goes into great detail of the cruelty he, his family, and his fellow Jews faced. “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Nearby, an SS man replaced his revolver in its holster” (p. 30). Families were separated. Women …show more content…
This story can bring out many emotions to the reader. Feelings of anger, sadness and frustration. Elie, his family, and the other Jews in his community always believed that their faith in God would save them. That God would protect them and watch over them. Even when Moishe the Beadle warned them about the dangers of the Germans coming for them, they still didn’t listen. The people accused Moishe the Breadle of wanting money, pity, or that he had just gone mad. “He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things” (p. 7). Why didn’t Elie’s family take advantage of the many chances they were given to flee? God helps those that help themselves. “We realized then that we were not staying in Hungary. Our eyes opened. Too late” (p. 23). It’s difficult to imagine how people can be so inhumane to one another, it’s sad to think about. “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range” (p.