Victims In Elie Wiesel's Night

A victim is a person who is put to death or subjected to torture by another; one who suffers severely in body or property through cruel or oppressive treatment, and in the case of World War 2 the Jews were the victims of the era. The Jews were the victims of the Nazi regime mentally, physically, and in every other way that could apply. Even after they were released from captivity the Jews will be victims for eternity because of the atrocities committed against them. In the book Night the author accurately depicts the utter victimization of the Jewish people in WW2; The word victim is the most accurate way to describe the Jews and the Jewish Faith after the animalistic treatment of the Jewish people by the Nazis.
Elie Wiesel was a hero;

Typically for those who practice religion, it is easy to convince yourself that God is watching over you when all is well. The challenge however comes when all is lost. Thoughts of ,”How could God let this happen if he is a loving God?”, and “Why my people out of the billions of people on this earth?” come to mind and really make you ponder whether your faith matters. Many men lost their faith and then proceeded to lose their lives. Namely the ,”Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection. But as soon as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death. When the selection came, he was doomed from the start, offering his neck to the executioner, as it were”(Wiesel 77). While it was important to keep faith during these devilish times, many lost it and and it never returned to them for the rest of their lives. From their perspective it is easy to understand. If my faith was targeted and I spent years in prison because of it, I would wonder why I even practiced; Why, if my god was so “good” my life was being torn apart. All of this was the fault of the Nazis. They caused millions of devout Jews to lose faith that never regained it. This was a complete and utter crime committed on God and the

The reason behind this is because the Nazis behaved like animals in regards to their treatment of their Jewish prisoners. They behaved so similar to animals that even the Jewish prisoners started to pick up on it. “Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes. An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nail. A crowd of workmen and curious passersby had formed all along the train. They had undoubtedly never seen a train with this kind of cargo. Soon, pieces of bread were falling into the wagons from all sides. And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread“(Wiesel, 101). Keep in mind that these people had once been respectable business owners, mothers, fathers, and friends. For these good people to act so violently and barbaric the Nazis treatment of them had to be unimaginably animalistic. Humans should never be put in such a situation where they care about a small bit of non-nutritional food enough to hurt or even kill their fellow people. The Nazis were the king of crimes against humanity and what they did to the Jews was the single most unexplainably terrible thing done to a religious group in all of recorded