"Night" is an example of bearing witness because people from the Holocaust tell their stories and their experience to show the readers a lesson about how Jews were really treated. Eliezer is one of the main characters of the story and survived the Holocaust, but lost many loved ones along the way, and it was a very difficult and painful journey. In the book, Eliezer tells his story in a first person view so that the readers know that a real person went through the Holocaust and a real person went through all of those struggles.
Bearing witness is an important moment that needs to be acknowledged and shared throughout generations, history, or even communities. One example of bearing witness is a veteran. A veteran is someone who has served in the military. A veteran can share their stories of being in the military or navy because they physically and mentally experienced it for a long period of time, and often veterans have certificates, stickers, or pins to show or prove they served in the military.
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At the end of the book, Elie survives but lost many loved ones, including his father, and constantly mentions how he is "unworthy" to be alive, and how he feels like he doesn't deserve to live. Elie made this book to share his story as someone who had actually experienced the holocaust and has it as a core memory. “My father no longer felt the club’s blows; I did. And yet I did not react. I let the SS beat my father. I left him alone in the clutches of death. Worse: I was angry with him for having been noisy, for having cried, for provoking the wrath of the SS.” this quote was when Elie realized he had escaped the nazis, but his father didn't, and he felt selfish for being so angry at his father that he left him to