Night Essay Elie Wiesel the author of “Night” was born on September 30, 1928 in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania. He lived most of his life studying Judaism, until the Germans came into their town and took all of the Jews to be sent to concentration camps. He was forced to watch his fellow people suffer through unspeakable terrors, while he had to try to survive alongside them. He also had to lose many close loved ones, without knowing where they would go or if he'd ever see them again. Elite Wiesel was dehumanized by having to suffer through the crematoriums, starvation, and hangings.
Elie Wiesel had to suffer through the crematoriums. Essentially, a crematorium is where one is thrown in and burned alive. Elie had to watch small
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The Germans would give the inmates nearly nothing. They had only bread crusts and one bowl of soup at the end of each day of hard work. This caused everyone to lose gigantic amounts of weight. Because of this, the Jews began slowly descending into madness. They would fight each other over small scraps of anything they could get their hands on. Brother against brother, father against son, many would fight their own family for a small bite of food. This is important because Elie had to watch a son kill his father for a piece of bread, and then himself get killed by another group for the same crumb. Those men then proceeded to all fight each other for the piece of bread. Elie, though, tried his best to give his food to his sick father, but was met with bad attitudes of the other sick patients around him. They told him to not only eat his own food, but to eat his father’s portion also, as his father had little time left. He had tried to ignore what the other patients had told him, as he slowly began gaining these thoughts himself as he began losing his humanity. Because of these horrible experiences, he began to think of only himself, and began thinking of how much less of a burden it would be if his father was no longer with