Elie Wiesel was a young boy when he was captured by Germans and taken into a concentration camp along with his family. In his book Night he talks about the experiences that he had in the concentration camp. His in depth perspective ultimately brings the reader back to World War II to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz in Poland. He tells the reader with great detail what it is constantly like to be around death. Wiesel even says that the prisoners in the camp were not living in fear; they were living inside of death knowing someday they would be killed just like everybody else stuck inside those walls. Wiesel uses descriptive scenes and his keen memory of the tragic events that took place inside the concentration camp to spread awareness to the world and make sure something like this will never happen again.
In the early 1940’s many Jews in Poland were
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He believed that he was going to die at that concentration. In fact a part of him did die in that concentration camp. He lost everything he believed in there, he lost his soul there and it could never be recovered. Not only was he certain that he was going to die there, but everybody around him was certain that they were going to die there. Elie Says “We were all going to die here. All limits had been passed. No one had any strength left. And again the night would be long." (Wiesel Page 98). The nights were long for Wiesel because he was wondering at which moment would he be chosen to die like the rest of them. Nobody had dignity in this camp, they all looked the same and they were treated the same. This was the most touching part of the book for me because a human without dignity is sad to see. Watching humans being treated like this made me cringe and I am happy that Wiesel created this book to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening