The second world war (WWII) was one of the most widespread and deadliest wars. This lasted for six years from 1939 to 1945. During this war, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, causing the Holocaust. Because of this, more than fifty million military and civilians died. At the time, Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when him and his family were forced to leave their home.
While reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, one of the things I learned about was the jews living conditions. I read about Elie living them with many other jews and it stuck out to me because how could a person live like that and stay alive? Every jew that was caught was sent to a concentration camp and had a total different way of lifestyle when being held there. Another thing that stuck out while reading the book was the SS officers. The SS officers are Hitler's protective unit.
In the book Night, the author describes his life being a prisoner for the Nazis. In this book, we are described with how Eli survived and what he and his father went through. We learn about how the prisoners were treated in the concentration camps. In the next two paragraphs, I will be sharing my opinion on what I think are the two most terrifying experiences the author, Eli, had to endure.
The Holocaust was a very traumatic event for everyone who experienced it and those who came after, and it gave many people experience, trauma, and disorders that they should never have had. Those of us who did not personally experience the pain will never know what those Jews went through in those camps, but Maus and Night share the experiences and horrors that millions of Jews had to live through. Maus is a survivor tale that tells the author, Artie Speigelmen’s father’s experiences in the Holocaust and his retelling through a graphic novel. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel that recounts the experiences of a teenager in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Some of the survivors became obsessive or paranoid, and others
Night By Elie Wiesel Through his rough time at the concentration camp Elie did his best to keep his hope up. During the book Elie showed hope that kept him motivated to stay alive. In Night by Elie Wiesel it shows hopes keeps the spirit of motivation to stay alive when he was trapped under bodies, kept running/walking to the concentration camp, and keeping his dad alive. Hope was shown when Elie was trapped under bodies; he was motivated by hope to survive. In the book he said “ I succeeded to digging a hole in the wall of dead and dying people , a small hole through which I could drink a little air.”
In the memoir of Elie Wiesel, “Night” it tells his experience during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel changed from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man because before the holocaust he had a good life and family. Then during the Holocaust he lost everything and was poorly treated. Before the Holocaust Wiesel had a good life and had fun. He would go to school and believed in God.
The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events to ever happen during the duration human existence A.D. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, one reads about a young Jewish boy living in the village of Sighet, Romania. In the process, one gains only a small bit of insight into the horrors that The Holocaust was to its victims. Although one reads about the very explicitly and detailed writings of the camps and the deportation, it's only reading words on a page. It’s impossible to know the pain and suffering that these people went through because of all the terror tactics used by the Nazi party, as well as the abysmal atmosphere that was present at the camps.
In the years of the holocaust millions of people died. Including those of war prisoners and Jewish citizens. Several concentration camps were to blame because of this. Even though most did not live to the liberation there were a few lucky ones who survived and lived to tell about their experiences. Elie Wiesel spent his childhood in Auschwitz concentration camp, surrounded by death and misery, but managed to keep his head up and persevere through it.
Eliezer is a twelve year old boy living in Sighet, Hungary during World War II. He is the only son in a Jewish family that strictly follows Jewish traditions. Eliezer has three siblings, Two older sisters, one younger. His mother and father own a small shop in Sighet.
After facing a few years of trials and tribulations, Elie Wiesel was able to survive those hard times and live to speak about it in Night; his autobiography, which described his life over a time of nearly two years in concentration camps and life on his very own hell on earth. Night goes into depth about Elie’s experience in the concentration camps; Auschwitz and Buna where not only does he lose his family, but figuratively himself, God, and hope for humanity. Miraculously, Elie survived the persecution and genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust, but sadly his conscious and faith did not. Elie had to witness and faced obstacles that were never meant or suitable for a boy his age and that drastically changed his mindset and outlook on life.
It also talks about the tragic scenes Eliezer experienced while he was in the concentration camps. Although the book is mainly about Eliezer it’s not fully about him. He shares the moments with his father, who eventually was taken away. Their rights to equality, freedom from torture and degrading, and freedom from arbitrary and exile were all violated.
“I realized that he did not want to see what they were going to do to me. He did not want to see the burning of his only son”(42). When Eliezer arrives at Auschwitz, the separation of his family puts an emotional toll on his father since he realizes that only him and Eliezer are still alive. This will be a catalyst to their relationship becoming stronger as they endure more together. Elie Wiesel, the author of the novel Night writes his own personal accounts of experiencing the Holocaust through the character Eliezer.
Night is the story that tells a part of Elie Wiesel’s life, the part where he and his family, along his fellow Jews were terrorized, humiliated, and dehumanized. In this novel author Elie Wiesel documented the horrible and gruesome happenings of the holocaust. It was 1944 when he and his family were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, from there on Elie never saw his mother and sister ever again, lost his innocence. At that time all Jews were being brutalized by the Nazis, they were being treated as if they weren’t humans, as if they were animals and as if they didn’t have feelings whatsoever. The Nazis would take away their most precious belongings and separate families.
Throughout human history, many things have happened. We all have done bad and good things to others and have forgotten that “all men are created equal.” In the book Night, was written by Elie Wiesel, the author has brought me into to a new world of experiencing how, specifically, human have done wrongly things to others. Started with hatred, the Nazi Party turned themselves into what’s called “mass murders” mainly targeted to the Jewish. They were the army that under-controlled by Adolf Hitler.
Imagine being a Jew in World War II. Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Auschwitz, wrote an autobiography about his experiences during the Holocaust. Night is about what he went through when he was in Auschwitz. He was one of the few survivors to tell the story. During his time in Auschwitz he lost faith in himself, lost faith in God and he had changed as a person.
