The book Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. It is a horrifying yet true story of the events that happened during the Holocaust. The trauma they had to face, the things they went through, and the unimaginable horrors. It is all written from Elie's point of view, some unimaginable horrors start within the first few pages, and further on in the book, it gets worse for Elie and the prisoners in the camps. For example, on page 6 it states “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners…”. Further in the book it talks more about the unimaginable horrors. In chapter 3 Elie and his family had arrived in Birkenau a camp site. He and his father were able to stay together, while Elie’s mother and sister went the opposite way. Without knowing that was the last time that he would see his mother. That night they had something called the selection. The camp would only choose those who were strong and healthy. On page 32 “Not far from us, flames huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being …show more content…
When the SS guard found out they evacuated the camp. They were arriving at Gleiwtiz. To put everyone in their bunks there was a lot of shoving and jostling. “I couldn’t breathe through my mouth or my nose. Sweat was running down my forehead and my back. This was it; the end of the road. A silent death, suffocation. No way to scream, to call for help.” A couple of pages after that it states “There followed days and nights of traveling. Occasionally, we would pass through germane towns. Usually very early in the morning. German laborers were going to work. They would stop and look at us without a surprise.” The first quote shows how much the horrors of the camp have affected every single one of them to change and lose their humanity. In the second it proves how normal it was in Germany. The people looked at them with no surprise like it is something