Has a checkup from a doctor determined whether you continued to work or to burn without a choice? With indescribable conditions taken in by his own two eyes, Elie Wiesel leads history in the Memoir of his experience in the Holocaust, Night. With only his father by his side and to be separated from his siblings, the Jewish family go through the camps of Nazi Germany, and the more disgusting reality that sits beyond normal textbooks. Just like the rest of the prisoners, they face under poor conditions and are forced to work until they eventually collapse. Surviving, the rest live in utter fear for what is to come. T hose who stand may eventually be plucked out for weakened bodies, die by work, or give up entirely.
Along the way to Buna, the first concentration
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As the original SS Officer that brought Elie here along with many others and telling them that they'd be burn if they didn't heed rule, Elie had tried to convince his father that the officers wouldn't dare for it would violate against humanity. In return, most grimly, his father replies "Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories." (Wiesel, 21), denying that they, along with the rest of the Jews, were even human. With further inhumanity with objectifying the Hews entirely, the prisoners move to a new camp called Auschwitz, where they are labeled with numbers and letter, with Elie to himself: "I became A-7713. After that I had no other name." (Wiesel, 28). Afterward, being commanded to go to their own blocks, Elie's father ahd gone to ask where the location was politely, in return receiving a stare "as if he wanted to convince himself that this man was really a creature of flesh and bone, a living being with a body and a belly." (Wiesel, 26) which further recognizes the theme of inhumanity of