Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Holocaust He’s hiding in someone’s attic! He’s scared out of his mind! Bombs are bursting outside! Windows are being smashed and shattered! The ground violently and rambunctiously shaking! Inside of all the horror! There are bangs and snaps! Someone bangs on the attic door he’s hiding in! Then those bangs become constant gargantuan kicks! The door gives in, there is nowhere to hide, and nowhere to run! A German soldier walks in! What is he going to do? He can’t do anything. He’s trapped, surely a goner. That is what it is like being a Jew in hiding. In the bone-trembling Holocaust.
Over 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. Under the ruling of Adolf Hitler. No one quite knows why Hitler wanted all Jews executed. Maybe Hitler was christian. …show more content…

Wiesel survived, and later wrote the memoir “Night.” He also penned many books and became an activist, orator, and teacher. Speaking out against persecution and injustice across the globe. Wiesel, unfortunately died on July 2nd, 2016, at the age of 87. In 1940, Hungary annexed Sighet and the Wiesels were among the Jewish families forced to live in the ghettos. In May 1944, Nazi Germany, with Hungary’s agreement, forced Jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel was later sent to Buna Werke labor camp, a subcamp of Auschwitz III - Monowitz, with his father where they were forced to work in deplorable, un-human conditions. They, again, were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beat to death by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust. Elie was eventually freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Wiesel quoted in his book: “ Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times …show more content…

What is the most important thing that I learned from Elie Wiesel. I don’t have any important thing that I learned about Elie Wiesel. I learned a lot from Elie Wiesel. I learned that, if something bad is happening in your life, just hold on a little longer. Although that is probably very cheesy to say. That is not all of the things that Elie Wiesel taught me. Elie Wiesel, inspires me to do good in my community. Inspires me to stand up for what is right. Then fight against what is wrong. Inspires me to do great things when I grow up. Inspires me to help out others when they are in desperate need of help. I have learned a lot from him. Yet, what can we learn from Elie Wiesel? Basically, everything that he inspires me to do. How do I suppose everyone will get along together in prosperity and equality. It’s so very simple, forget about past mistakes. Whether, a certain race did something. Like start some type of war. For example WWII, the most horrific war of all. To this day we are friends with Germany. We forget about our past and let it go. It wasn’t some people faults, that people in the past did some horrendous deed. Like what Hitler did, supposedly he blamed the Jewish race for doing something in the past. What happened in the past, is dead in the past. We may not know, though, what Elie Wiesel learned throughout the Holocaust. Still, we can take away what we learned from his story. What happened in his life