Felicia Carmelly, currently age 87, is one of the few Holocaust survivors who remains alive today. Her story is riveting and immensely detailed; consequently, it deserves to be remembered for eternity. Being generally knowledgable about the Holocaust is one perspective, however, reading and understanding Felicia’s point of view is much different. The thoroughly haunting events that transpired in Transnistria, orchestrated through the eyes of Carmelly herself, were heart-wrenching to say the least. Before the Holocaust began, Felicia was living a very structured and fairly pampered lifestyle in Dorna, Romania, as an only child.
What does a girl ripped from her home and placed into seclusion and a boy seperated from most of his family and faced with death every day have in common? The answer lies not with their experiences, but within the emotional effects of the aftermath of their traumatic experiences. Jeanne Houston writes about her life in a Japanese-American in her autobiography Farewell to Manzanar, and Elie Wiesel shares his story of the Jewish concentration camps in his autobiography Night. Both of these intimate books reveal truly horrific events and details about the crimes against humanity that went on during WWII, although one author clearly had experienced more appalling episodes. While both Jeannie and Elie suffered heavily and lost family connections
“Night” by Elie Wiesel is one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, still persisting at the top of the Western bestseller lists. Its canvas are the memories of the writer, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, who at the age of fifteen, was with his family deported to Birkenau. After selection was sent to Auschwitz, then to one of its subsidiaries - Monowitz. In 1945 he was evacuated to Buchenwald, where he lived to see the end of the war.
Concentration camps have left an ingrained mark on human history, representing a dark chapter distinguished by persecution, suffering, and mass atrocities. In the fictional novel, Internment by Samira Ahemd, a teenage girl named Layla and her family are sent away to an internment camp. In the autobiographies, They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and Night by Elie Wiesel, both Takei and Wiesel are forced to leave their whole lives behind and are sent away to concentration camps. These stories are examples of why memory and storytelling are so important.
In his Nobel prize speech in 1986 Elie Wiesel stated that” to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time”. In his memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, he shares his experiences of the Holocaust through the eyes of a young teenager. Ellie and his father, Shlomo, must quickly adapt from a peaceful life to living a nightmare in the concentration camps. The memoir highlights the horrific war crimes the Nazis committed, and the suffering Jewish people went through. The best authors are often the ones who can make the reader attach to a text.
On March 19th, 1944, Nazi forces invaded Hungary, the following summer German forces deported roughly 500,000 Jewish people to various concentration camps. Ellie Wiesel was one of them, he writes about this in his book “night.” A harrowing and brave true story about a Hungarian Jewish boy surviving the holocaust and the horror of Nazi ideals. The simple act of writing is an immensely complex thing to harness and implement into a deeper meaning.
Elie Wiesel’s touching memoir, Night, shares intimate details about the cruelty of World War Two concentration camps and the horrors that occurred within them. Concentration camps were spread throughout Germany and Poland from 1933-1945 as the result of strong anti-Semitic views radiating from the President and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shares of the time that he and his father endured being held captive in several concentration camps, and the battle to escape death, day after day. In the memoir, the significance of night was used throughout the piece to draw connections and emotions from the reader. In Night, night was used both literally and symbolically to portray the unknown, pain, and the end of a journey.
Eva Kor and Elie Wiesel, two survivors of the Holocaust, were also activists within the Jewish community. They were known outside of their communities for spreading inspirational speeches and ideologies to heal and overcome the experiences of the Holocaust. Even though Eva Kor and Elie Wiesel’s ideas and motivations were different, they had the same effect on people in and outside of their communities. After all, they were both able to leave lasting impressions on the world. Elie Wiesel focused on telling his story, and describing how he survived the traumatic event through his memoir, Night, that demonstrated his perseverance through the Holocaust.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- George Santayana. The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in human history, with the mass killings of about six million Jews during World War II. To help prevent an event like this from happening again, schools and educational centers have started teaching people about the Holocaust to not only learn from our mistakes and grow from them, but to honor the millions and millions of Jews lost and affected by the Holocaust. Night is an autobiography written by a Holocaust survivor named Eliezer Wiesel and is taught in many schools worldwide to help remind students of the events and teach them why and how it happened.
Loss damages humans emotionally and sometimes spiritually but it is loss that makes us grow as members of a society. The need to prevent others from suffering as well overwhelms us and we become advocated against whatever has hurt us so much. In Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical novel Night, he suffers along with his family through the Holocaust. He watches people suffer and wither away, including his father. During his time of just under a year in concentration camps, Wiesel grew into a very mature and emotionally strong person.
Many people might say that they feel the pain that others went through during the holocaust. You never know the real feeling and what it is they went through being put in the camps. Nearly all was close to death and many were to close and didn't make it. In the memoir “Night” By Elie Wiesel, himself explains and talks about his own struggles at night and of being put in a near life death experience. In the memoir theirs a father and son who shares the same experience and story, but they go through it together since they all that they have standing strong.
When faced with immense suffering, the once unbreakable ties can fall apart, showcasing the devastating effects of the Holocaust. In the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, the profound impact of inhumanity is demonstrated, contributing to the disintegration of even the strongest bonds. Through the loss of father-son bonds, the destruction of solidarity among prisoners, and the loss of faith, Wiesel reveals the traumatic transformations of individuals ultimately impacting their lives forever. The autobiography portrays the devastating deterioration of father-son bonds, exemplifying the significant impact of inhumanity, as these once unbreakable connections are tragically broken.
Faith in a Broken World The Holocaust has long been known as one of the worst events in human history, and it has left its mark, permanently lasting for millennia more. Although the generation of today will never be able to witness it firsthand, survivors of this catastrophe have chosen to write their personal experiences out for the world to see. One of these survivors is Elie Wiesel, who accomplished this through a memoir entitled Night. He provides insight into the Holocaust and what life was like as a prisoner there, sharing his story as a witness.
Pain is a necessary evil of war; remembrance of the pain is purely perception. Throughout Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” and Elie Wiesel’s Night there are many references to intense events of tragedy and redemption with vivid and eye-opening detail. These sources of work take us through war via two completely different vantage points through two completely different wars. Wiesel’s Night take us on the tragic endeavor of a person of Jewish belief during the Holocaust. On the contrary, O’Brien’s “How to tell a True War Story” takes us on the thrilling journey of US soldier during the Vietnam War.
Night is a powerful, first person account of the tragic horrors of the Holocaust written and endured by Elie Wiesel. In this dark literary piece, Wiesel's first hand tale of the atrocities and horrors endured in World War II concentration camps will leave an unforgettable, dark, macabre impression amongst readers that cannot be done with a simple listing of statistics. This tale of human perserverance and the dark side of human nature will cause readers to question their own humanity. Also, it will paint a vivid picture of the vile deeds that mankind is capable of expressing. Reading this book will leave a long lasting impression that is definitely not something that will be soon forgotten.
