About twelve years and roughly eleven million deaths. The Holocaust. There are no words to describe it. It was full of death, brutality, pain, and torture. No one made it out unscarred. Elie Wiesel of Sighet, was one of the “lucky” ones that survived. One could say it was lucky to survive, but some may put it as it was better off perish. Everyone in the camps, were always on the brink of death, from starvation, disease, and the brutality of everyone. Night by the author Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel depicts the situation he was brought into when his family was transported out of their home in Sighet, and packed into a cattle car, with the destination of Auschwitz. Elie shares his first-hand account as to what happened in the concentration camps he …show more content…
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. That is when Ellie and his father get separated from his mother and sister. Next was their age and job, this is when Elie and his father have their first experience with an inmate, he ““could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm.” “Fifteen” “No. You’re [Elie] eighteen.” “Fool. Listen to what I [the inmate] say.” Then he asked…[Elie’s] father, who answered: “I’m fifty.” “No...You’re forty.””(Wiesel 30). Although it seemed like an odd idea at the time, they were sent to the left. Unfortunately, Elie's mother and younger sister was sent to the right, unbeknown by Elie and his father. The left line led to the barracks...the right, the crematoria… The inmate sharing his knowledge of what age to say, aided them in making it past the first selection of their