Broken in WWII The Holocaust and WWII was a time when many people were blinded from what was actually happening in the world around them. Sadly this was not true for millions of jewish people, and non german citizens. When Elie Wiesel an Auschwitz survivor wrote his memoir Night he was pulling from parts of his life where he was very vulnerable and broken. Elie was only fifteen when he was forced into concentration camps with his family, at such a young age he had to experience things that forced him to grow up. The theme of Night is brokenness and shattered character. On page 5, Moshe the Beadle a jewish leader at the synagogue had been taken into a camp, by the hungarian police. After several months later, Moshe the Beadle had returned to Sighet, and shared his story with the other jewish people. “To live? No, I don’t attach any importance to my life anymore. I’m alone.” Before Moshe had been taken by the police he was devoted to the scriptures and tutored Elie in the cabbala. He was also praised by the town, but after he was shunned and told that he was trying to …show more content…
They were trained to shoot if someone slipped up and to beat the prisoners if they didn’t do what they were told. None of them had a good bone left in their body, at least that's what the prisoners were meant to believe. On page 61 at the time of three hanging we see how even the SS officers still have a slither of what’s right or wrong. “The SS seemed more preoccupied, more disturbed than usual. To hang a young boy in front of thousands of spectators was no light matter.” These officers were so brainwashed that they would do almost anything besides hang a child in public. They would separate children from their parents, they would throw babies into fiery pits, they would gas thousands of people. Only would they have sympathy when they were killing a young boy