Elie Wiesel describe the horrors of Auschwitz in his acclaimed book Night. So does every other book written about Auschwitz. They all proclaim the distress they encountered, the SS guards, the gas chambers, the crematory, the barracks, the death, hopelessness, and fear. The authors tell us what happened, but we will really never understand the true terrors that occurred. However, Night is written unfiltered.
In this passage, my mother and I listened to a discussion Eliezer and Moishe the Beadle had together. Moishe the Beadle asks Eliezer why does he pray. Eliezer is dumbfounded by the question as he his used to praying regularly. He replies to Moishe he does not know why prays. Moishe later tells him that people should ask God questions even though people won’t understand His reply.
This passage is set when the Jews finally arrive at the concentration camp. The first thing they see, pointed out by Mrs. Schachter, is the flames rising from the camp, presumably from the crematorium. I found this quote to be very chilling, and it struck me. Imagine travelling for days on end, with no idea where you’re going, and you’re stuck in a cattle car with at least eighty other people. Suddenly, you arrive at your destination, only to see flames and smell burning flesh.
To the crematorium. Work or crematorium the choice is yours.” This frightened many Jewish prisoners, therefore, they worked as hard as they could. They exhausted themselves which eventually led to their death. Second, during the film, the boy in the stripped pyjamas, there were many references to gas chambers and crematoriums.
Seeing the crematoriums is not the first-time Elie or his family experienced cruelty. The first time he witnessed cruelty was in the ghettos, seeing people beat by the Gestapo to get in line to get on the train. Once Elie was introduced to camp life, Elie and other prisoners were always beat inside of the barracks, but did not feel the pain due to being beaten and treated subhuman for some time. A German guard can do anything they want to the prisoners, unfortunately Elie was in the wrong time and place when Idek needed to vent his fury and Elie had crossed paths with him. So Idek started to beat Elie, “as I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have taken my silence for defiance
Elie Wiesel saw no sense at being and keeping faithfulness to God. A book of life and death does not rests in the hands of God, but in the hands of the executioner. Author expressed himself from leaving his ancestral faith, showed hatred referring to the Creator, whom he loved and worshiped before finding himself in the camp. He (God) became a stranger; sometimes considered him an enemy. Meanwhile, religious life in Auschwitz was very intense, despite the enormity of humiliation, slave labor and fear for survival during selection to the gas chambers.
The stakes that the Jews were facing are shown through this quote. Denial of the fate described is more than understandable, but this fate was one in which the Nazi’s were in control, robbing the victims of their lives and ability to complete the cycle of life in peace. To be killed twice meant is both literal and metaphoric, referring to a death of their faith, and futures. When the Jews recited the Kaddish for themselves it was a show of control, knowing there would be no one to do it for them, enhanced when it is noted that thevictims were denied in a cemetery. When the Jews first walked into the camp they felt the hatred all around them; “The march toward the chimneys looming in the distance under an indifferent sky (Weisell xiii)”.
During the Holocaust, Jews and other oppressed groups were sent to camps where they were either murdered or forced to work in labor camps. Through selection, the Nazis picked out the strongest to work in the camps and killed the old and young who were more likely to do less work. As a result, women and children were sent to the gas chambers while the men were sent to the work camps. When Elie arrives at Auschwitz, in the novel Night, the Kapos announces, “Here, you must work. If you don’t, you will go straight to the chimney” (Wiesel 39).
Elie Wiesel describes the horrors and cruelty of humans, showing that people at concentration camps: SS, and SA. They used prisoners, tourchured, and let them die like they were nothing. The “The World” – What is it? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.”
Many of the books we read today always contain some backstory to it. Whether it was just for fun or informational about an important topic or event. Many of these stories somehow or someway tie into an author 's life. Edgar Allan Poe is just one of these authors who have written works like The Cask of Amontillado, and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Another author is S.E. Hinton which wrote the book The Outsiders and a Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel who wrote Night.
Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camps during World War II. During this time, Wiesel witnessed many horrific acts. Two of these were executions. Though the processes of the executions were similar, the condemned and the Jews’ reactions to the execution were different. One execution was the single hanging of a strong giant youth from Warsaw.
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The people had already put aside their emotions for others, and began to give up all hope for a better life, and then the public executions made many give up their religious beliefs and hope for a nice afterlife. Whenever the gallows first showed up, and the first hanging of a boy took place, Elie thought, “this boy, leaning up against the gallows, deeply upset me”(Wiesel, 62). The sense of justice and that the good were rewarded and the bad were punished began to fade. The Jews can see that the judges in the camps can do as they please and choose who lives and dies, and that the sentences are not always fair. The crematorium did not involve them looking death in the face, but with the gallows they were dehumanized because they could not look away from the facts that life is not fair and just, and that their beliefs should be doubted.
Inhumanity and Cruelty in Night Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, conducted a genocide known as the Holocaust during World War II that was intended to exterminate the Jewish population. The Holocaust was responsible for the death of about 6 million Jews. Night is a nonfiction novel written by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience during the Holocaust. Many events in the novel convey a theme of “man’s inhumanity to man”. The prisoners of the concentration camps are constantly tortured and neglected by the German officers who run the camps.
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