Hunter Creguer Mrs. Malmquist English 1B 10 May 2024 Violence and Effect of the Holocaust Have you ever wondered how extreme the violence the Jews experienced during the Holocaust was? The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a great account of a young boy who was sent to the concentration camp called Auschwitz and was able to make it out alive. In Night, a boy named Elie is sent to a concentration camp called Auschwitz after he and his family get removed from their town. Elie gets separated from his sister and mother and is left with his dad, but ends up being alone once Auschwitz gets liberated. During the Holocaust, Jews saw and experienced unimaginable amounts of violence on a daily basis and they got so used to it that it barely affected them. …show more content…
Elie was upset he had not done anything about it and his dad whispered to him that it didn’t hurt (Wiesel). This shows an example of someone close to Elie being hurt and how they were already used to the pain and torture that his father didn’t even feel the slap. Another example of how the Jews experienced immense amounts of violence during the Holocaust is when Elie was beaten up because he got in the way of his Kommando Idek. The text states “One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood” (Wiesel 53). This shows the low temper the Kommandos had and how they didn’t care what they did to the Jews. It also shows how they had experienced violence and it mentioned in the book that Idek was known for beating up people when he was upset. An example of how the Jews became unaffected by the violence in the Holocaust is when Elie’s father died and he couldn't even weep over the death of his own