“Raised in an Orthodox family in Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald at age 16. In unsentimental detail, “Night” recounts daily life in the camps — the never-ending hunger, the sadistic doctors who pulled gold teeth, the Kapos who beat fellow Jews” (Donadio). At the end of Great Depression, Hitler was slowly gaining power and he convinced lots of people that Jews were harmful and taking all the food. The Nazis went and rounded up jews and sent them to concentration camps where they would make them work. If they could not work, they would be killed. There was gas chambers that could fit roughly 2000 people. They slept in huge barracks which were originally for around 250 people but in ended up housing about 1000 people. The Holocaust ended up starting …show more content…
Many countries were involved in the WWII and many people were killed. Elie Wiesel was a jewish survivor who went to a concentration camp and survived. He wrote many books about the holocaust and how he survived. The losses experienced by Elie Wiesel and the Jews of Sighet, led to the novel being title Night. This experience is shown by the following themes; Night as a symbol, loss of faith, moral death, and the relationship between Elie and his father.
First, Elie uses the word “night” to describe when they are in their hardest times and when they lose a portion of their faith and hopes. “In a few moments, we stood in ranks. Block by block. Night had fallen. Everything was happening according to plan” (Wiesel 84). All the Jews (including Elie) were gathered and organized into ranks. They were lined up for the march when he realized Hitler was fulfilling his promise to exterminate the Jews. “The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting