In chapter seven of Night, by Elie Wiesel, one of the most emotional scenes is shared. The Jews are being transported to a different location and the officers begin to throw bread crumbs as a sort of sick, twisted game. They enjoy watching the Jews turn on each other and maim one another just for the smallest crumb of bread. In my cartoon, the first quadrant is the scene where young Eliezer talks about the train ride and how claustrophobic everyone became due to the space provided and the amount of Jews crammed in. The next frame is of the father crawling out of the mob while our main character sat watching.
Curtis Sittenfeld was only seven years old when the Holocaust first began to leave its destructive mark on history. Now a father, grandfather, accomplished businessman and war veteran, Sittenfeld accounted his harrowing past on how he became a Holocaust survivor. After his father was arrested on November 9th, 1938, the night now known as “The Night of The Broken Glass,” Sittenfeld and his family contemplated the idea of leaving France in order to evade Hitler’s exceedingly horrendous acts against the Jewish population. While Sittenfeld’s immediate family entertained the idea of leaving, his extended family believed the tensions would soon die down.
In Elie Wiesel’s acceptance speech of 1986 he stated that “when human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must –at that moment – become the center of the universe.” Considering the events that occurred in World War I, such as the Holocaust, I strongly agree with Wiesel’s statement about making those who are endangered our priority. It is the duty of those who inhabit this world to protect and set the imprisoned free regardless the circumstances. If no one has the courage to step up and do something to help, the oppressor will end up believing that treating people unjustly and forbid them from their freedom is indeed right.
Author Bio Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928, is married to Marion Wiesel, who he has one son with. Elie Wiesel is a professor at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, he’s also taught at the City University of New York, and was a visiting scholar at Yale. Elie Wiesel is the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. Elie Wiesel wrote Night based on his personal experience as a holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel has received a Nobel Peace Prize, a Congressional Gold Medal, a Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by George H. W. Bush, and many more awards.
The book night is about the author Elie Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps all around Europe. The camps were Auschwitz, where he was first deported on May of 1944 with his father, mother, and his sister. He stayed there for 8 months before being liberated on January 27, 1945. He also stayed at Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald throughout the year. The book consists of memories of Wiesel’s time in the camps, and how it’s affected him in his life today.
In Night, Wiesel references the event in Aden when a Parisian lady gazes upon a brawling fight between boys over a coin she threw at them. Similar to the working men throwing bread into the cattle car of prisoners, this event exposes the true purpose for giving the prisoners food, highlights an undesirable trait of humanity, and reminds readers of the desperate relationships between prisoners trapped in the cattle car. First, it highlights the desperate nature of the prisoners. While the starving prisoners want the food desperately, the amount is insufficient to feed them, causing conflict to erupt. Like the desperate boys in Aden, the men turn upon each other frantically.
Aimel, you can 't do this to me. Remember your promise, you said you 'll marry me, we were supposed to have lots of children, you said we would grow old together. You can 't back out of these promises. You have to fulfill them. You can 't leave me.
When people think about the life of living in a concentration camp, they think about how unbearable and inhumane the way people were treated and how they had to live in order to survive. Elie Wiesel will help you better understand the way they lived and what they went through in their everyday life and what it felt like to finally be free. He tells us a story about the lifestyle in living in a concentration camp, how he and his father and many others try to survive, and how the people who survived were finally able the live free again and he tries to get people to understand everything that happened and how everyone who was brought the the camps understood what had happened. In the beginning of the book Night by Elie Wiesel everybody was being
Elie Wiesel writes about his experience and the hardships in the Holocaust. During these years of war the Jewish prisoners had to experience horrific starvation, the daily labour work in concentration camps, and the question of his faith in God. Yom Kippur is celebrated by Jews to demonstrate their faith in God and many show their faith by fasting on the tenth of Tishrei. There were countless Jews who had already perished from malnourishment and endured constant mistreatment. While staying in these camps he says “We received more blows than food.
In the book ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, the reader reads about his journey in a concentration camp. Also, how being in the camp changed who he was as a person, and changed how he thought about lots of things. Not eating well enough and having to fight for survival can change any person drastically. This is witnessed through the duration of the book. He learns a lot about the world, and has to grow up way too fast, only being 15 years old.
In the Memoir “night” by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes his experiences of being stripped away from his home in Sighet. And the life of a concentration camp with his father. Because of all the experiences, Wiesel lost faith in God and created a very complex relationship with his father throughout the time living in a concentration camp. Prior to being in a concentration camp with his father, Wiesel was a very religious person. Studying his religion was his passion, and that’s all he would do in his free time But through the things he witnessed, Wiesel began to question his God.
The Holocaust was a dark and grievous time for millions throughout the world. It not only left lasting physical effects, but mental, and societal. It was during this era that many were forced to make a decision on whether to be bystanders, or to risk their own well-being for the benefit of those threatened. Though many turned their backs on the persecuted, there were several attempted resistance efforts. Secret groups were established all throughout Europe and several individuals were noted for illegally obtaining passports and ration cards.
It was Thursday May 5, 1938 my friend Margot and I were walking home from school. As we approached our apartment building we saw two nazis soldiers standing outside of Margot’s house. Margot looked at me and said “Who are those men and why are they talking to my parents?” I looked at her and said “They are at your house because your family is jewish and they are most likely giving your parents the yellow stars that you have to sew onto your clothes. Its the star of David you have to wear so the soldiers know that you a jew.”
In 1939,WWII began when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party invaded Poland, causing six million Jewish people to fear for their lives. This fear began when all people had to complete a census and carry an identification card. Second, the Jews had to wear the Star of David, and they forced them into ghettos. Third, they were taken to concentration and death camps. For example, in “Resistance during the Holocaust’’ and “Violins of Hope” we see different ways of actively and passively resisting Nazi authority.
Expository Report “We must do something, we can’t let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse, we must revolt”. These are the words from many men surrounding Elie Wiesel as he entered Auschwitz, calling out for rebellious toward the Germans harsh conditions. Of course they had no idea what they were getting themselves into, many thought that there was nothing wrong until boarding the cattle train that would send them off to their final resting place. Life during the holocaust was torturous to say the least, so much so that some 6,000,000 lives were taken during this time in Jewish descent alone. People of the Jewish descent did not have it easy; they either were forced out of their homes into concentration camps, or they would hide out only to be found and killed of they remained in their settlements.
