Shayan Sheraz Mrs. German Honors English 2nd Period 29 February 2024 The Importance of Night By the end of the Holocaust, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population had been exterminated. Elie Wiesel’s Night is not just a memoir of survival; it's a call to remember those who were lost and learn from the past. The Holocaust was a catastrophic event during World War II (WWII) which led to the mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazis. The Jewish community throughout Europe suffered greatly and permanently from this unprecedented tragedy, which resulted in extreme sadness, pain, and loss. Elie Wiesel experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust first-hand as a survivor of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. These events left an enormous impact on him that made him …show more content…
While reading the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, one can undoubtedly recognize the subtle journey of prejudice turning into discrimination. In the book, Elie vividly writes about the dehumanizing acts of discrimination Hitler and his soldiers did while going not just after the Jews’ lives themselves, but their religion and culture as well. Elie says, “It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, and therefore Jewish memory” (Night viii). Here, Wiesel emphasizes the true extent of the Holocaust where he reveals how the experiences went beyond just physical torture and more so targeted the very existence of the Jews. This evidence completely describes how discrimination through actions, along with simple thoughts of prejudice, can not only target peoples’ lives but their religious community as