Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

The author of the Night did not understand why God punishes the innocent and righteous, who worship Him, even in the death camp, what did they do? They pray for you! Glorify your name. Wiesel openly expressed his hatred for God, was not afraid. He thought that after what happened in Auschwitz, the religious dimension of Jewish identity completely lost its meaning. He accuses, and the accused was God. His eyes were open and he was alone in a world without God and without man. Without love and mercy. In Auschwitz, even Orthodox rabbis lost faith. But when he felt crushed, his faith, lost grounds to fight and began to die. Elie Wiesel confessed to deny-standing religious practices even in a symbolic and moral.

Holocaust goes far beyond human comprehension.

The contemporary dream-literature, art and philosophy created by Jews unusually often refer to the subject of the Holocaust. Works of art, science and theology are a tribute to the victims who were never a burial in the Jewish cemetery. Elie Wiesel has taken this mission. The author felt alienated. Nazi ideology destroyed Elie, not only in a sense of his own dignity, but also effectively contributed to the weakening of his ties with tradition. Elie Wiesel saw no sense at being and keeping faithfulness to God. A book of life and death does not rests in the hands of God, but in the hands of the executioner. Author expressed himself from leaving his ancestral faith, showed hatred referring to the Creator, whom he loved and worshiped before finding himself in the camp. He (God) became a stranger; sometimes considered him an enemy. Meanwhile, religious life in Auschwitz was very intense, despite the enormity of humiliation, slave labor and fear for survival during selection to the gas chambers. Faith in God, however, gave meaning to existence to prisoners. Some of them worshipped. Keeping an exemplary religious life in the concentration camp was a heroic act of resistance against the oppressor; Although God was indifferent to the fate of the Jews, however, the Germans tried to destroy the humanity of their victims, so the only way to show-not contempt and hatred of the enemy was the participation in the

Before there was a question: "Where is God in a lost world?" poses the question: "why?” Why the world is so confused, disordered? Why does God, if it really exists, has a real impact on the world and does not respond? Why, if it is love, it allows suffering and evil? Why?

“Night” by Elie Wiesel is one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, still persisting at the top of the Western bestseller lists. Its canvas are the memories of the writer, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, who at the age of fifteen, was with his family deported to Birkenau. After selection was sent to Auschwitz, then to one of its subsidiaries - Monowitz. In 1945 he was evacuated to Buchenwald, where he lived to see the end of the war.

In the novel Night we strike at two realities. The story begins with idyllic. The author describes the quiet life led by the Jews in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. Idyllic the beginning of the story contrasts sharply with the description of the first hours spent in the camp - with a picture of the murdered babies, the crematorium ovens and human horror when carried out by Nazi doctors on the selection of those who will die at once, and those who can still live a little