Emotions In Night By Elie Wiesel

Many people around the world feel differently about the Holocaust. Out of all of the emotions I think people feel anger and sadness the most. This especially happens when we hear, read, or see about it. An example of this is when I read the book Night by Elie Wiesel, which is his story of surviving the Holocaust. I also watched the documentary Henia Surviving Auschwitz, which gave me a lot of different emotions. Ultimately the documentary made me feel depressed the most. Hearing Henia’s story makes you see that it was an actual event. We all know that it was one, but it’s in the back of our minds and we do not think of it often. Many people don't take it as seriously as it was considering it happened not even a hundred years ago. You feel bad for all that they were put through

For instance when her older brother was in the hospital and he came and gave their mom his winter coat. He said “Give this to someone who will need it,” because he knew that he would be killed. What was especially heartbreaking was hearing about how all the children were being taken to the crematorium. Henia says “They were singing as they were getting on the train.” This by itself would be heart-wrenching but to also have to see a siblings do that would kill me. Similarly the book and movie are a lot alike. Henia and Elie went through a lot of the same things, like having to wear the white armband with the star of David on it that all Jews had to wear. Another instance is when they separated men and women and had someone pointing left and right. That showed which way the person would go, one way led them to living another day and the other way was where people got sent to the crematorium. A difference I noticed is that Henia seemed to been to a lot of different camps and she seemed to have a lot of luck on her side through it