Summary Of Elie Wiesel's 'Cruelty Night'

The Russian army reached Buna, all of the patients in the hospital were freed. The most important characters in this novel were still held in prejudice and cruelty. Elie and his father were running away from Buna trying to get to a new concentration camp, in the middle of all of the madness, there is a blizzard. Can they catch a break?! Left and right, the prisoners of Adolf Hitler’s war against ‘the different” are falling to the hands of death. So close to the finish line, many do not have the mental and physical strength to continue. They do not see that the end is near because there is no contact to the outside world. Elie was close to becoming one of the victim’s, his foot was causing himself agony. In the snow, Elie wanted to sleep. Shlomo

The prisoners were stacked upon themselves, Elie recognized a voice. It was Juliek from the Buna orchestra! In this pile of prisoners there was a mix of the loving, the dead, and the dying. In the midst of all of the chaos, Juliek starts playing a Beethoven concerto. He was wishing the dying a goodbye through the strings of his violin, Juliek was giving a final salute to prisoners. Elie Wiesel talked about that certain song, “Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.” (p. 95). That certain song will always bring Elie back to the time of struggle of the Holocaust and the concentration

Buchenwald was located in the heart of Nazi Germany. The prisoners were not served food or water for days, just left to die in the harsh winter conditions. On top of that, Shlomo was beginning to embark on the painful journey of death. Once the train reached Buchenwald, he wanted to lie down and allow himself to die. Shlomo would not eat for days, he only drink water. This would not help his medical state, he needed food. Suffering from dysentery, an illness curable today, was not in a concentration camp in the 40’s. A doctor refused to look at Shlomo, allowing him to die without a chance of survival. On January 28th, 1945, Shlomo Wiesel lived his last day on Earth. A day spent in hell, a future spent in