Freedom In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Imagine living through the gruesome Holocaust, living throughout different concentration camps, having to work in order to gain “freedom” something all humans should receive at birth, witnessing countless starving bodies, and even worse having to watch people slowly die before your eyes. Imagining is one thing, but actually living through the torment that millions of Jews had to endure is another. An author by the name of Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust, in his memoir Night he took the reader along with him as he described his terrible time hopping from concentration camp to concentration camp, waiting until the day where he will be free once again. The way he described his experience is seriously frightening, readers contemplate

In this article, people were granted freedom from torture or degrading torment. Yet, none of the Jews were given this freedom, they received the complete opposite. An example of such tortures acts done by the Nazis can be found on page 41 where it states, “Not far from us flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic-flames. They were burning something. A van drew up at the pit and delivered its cargo, little children. Babies!” From this quote readers are able to visualize the demonic actions that were done by the Nazis. The Nazis were willing to kill and burn innocent newborn Jewish babies, an act at this caliber can be catastrophic to the parents of the baby or even the siblings. The feeling that the parents would receive while reminiscing back to the time where they were helpless to saving their child is torturous, nobody can bare a burden that substantial among their shoulders. It scares people just witnessing the flames and smoke rising from the chimney which are burning human beings, not allowing the people proper goodbyes. Yet, such torture doesn’t stop there, the Nazis also physically tormented people. On page 116 of the memoir Night Wiesel recalls to when his father was being beaten and stated, “The officer dealt him a trident blow to the head with his truncheon… still breathing-spasmodically though.” This quote depicts how guards treated the Jews, even though Wiesel’s father at the time was

All of the millions of Jews who survived through the Holocaust didn’t receive a compensation, nor did the thousands of Jewish families was suffered a lost due to the Holocaust. Nobody was able to help the Jews, for the 12 years that they were imprisoned in the many concentration camps. Here many Jews were violated, tortured, and even killed. Many of the Jewish lost faith; they gave up on their lives and even gave up on their gods. The actions done by the Nazis can never be reversed; the Holocaust will forever be a dark time in which humans treated other humans like animals, what the Nazis did to the Jewish will forever be remembered. Due to how the Nazis were able to violate the fundamentals of freedom for 12 years. It wasn’t until 3 years after the Holocaust ended until something was written to stop it. The Holocaust would’ve violated almost all of the rights written in the Universal Document of Human Rights, some of which included article 9, article 5 and article 4. The world is still recovering from the horrific actions done by the Nazis and dent on the human race as a whole the Nazis created may never be