In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, composed around his experiences during the time of the infamous Holocaust, many choiceless choices were faced. Reading through the memoir, there were thousands of situations Wiesel faced that should have led to his death, but with the ambition to live a life out of the tragic camp, he survived. Wiesel unveils choices he battled daily that quietly kept him alive, while the same choices killed millions of Jews around him. Unfortunately, not all prisoners could not succeed with the same “luck” as Wiesel, as many of them were faced with the same options. Gradually, Wiesel describes the events of experiencing the choiceless choices within the holocaust. Illustrating one of the first choiceless choices Wiesel had to …show more content…
The officer was led to place the newly arrived Jews into two groups. The prisoners didn’t figure out until after, only one of the groups would survive their first night in the camp. Unsure of who to believe, as he approached the officer he had earned the courage of saying in a shaky voice, “I’m eighteen” (Wiesel 31). The first choice, lying about how old he was. It kept him alive past the first miserable night at Auschwitz. After Wiesel survived months in the cruel conditions under the SS, allied soldiers were approaching Auschwitz, so German authorities feverishly worked to cover up their evidence of the mass killings that had taken place. They moved thousands of prisoners to other camps, away from the front. Elie Wisel and his father, Shlomo, were just two of the 250,000 others who were forced on a death march, a brutal trip to the next camp. At the time, Elie had been under nursing care, due to having surgery done on his swollen foot. He and his father had the choice of staying, but after hearing out all the miserable options and living under the fear of getting sent to the crematorium, Elie said, “Let’s be evacuated with the others” (Wiesel