What Is The Theme Of The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

n the holocaust, about 6 million Jewish people were brutally murdered between 1933 and 1945, and 1.5 million of the people that died were infants. Night tells the story of Eliezer Wiesel, Eliezer was a studious Jewish teenager living in Hungary in the early 1940s. Eliezer Wiesel was forced into a concentration camp in Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, Eliezer struggles to maintain his hope and faith. Eliezer lost more and more hope as each day went by as he saw his fellow mates die of hunger and be killed. Night also tells about his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 and 1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution

Genocide also shows other people warning signs with other genocides in the world. Warning signs of genocide are provided in the book night to show the Holocaust was a genocide. “ When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” ( Wiesel 6). This paragraph shows the readers that this book is a genocide, there are central parts to a genocide which include killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in whole part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and finally forcibly transferring children of one group to another and this can include anyone as well not just children. This quote not only provides innocent people being shot and killed and having to offer their necks, but it also explains how they would take infant

Both of the genocides mainly involved similarities between people and society. In both genocides the people were starved almost to death they were extremely skinny and very weak. “Once the Khmer Rouge took power, they instituted a radical reorganization of Cambodian society. This meant the forced removal of city dwellers into the countryside, where they would be forced to work as farmers, digging canals and tending to crops. Gross mismanagement of the country’s economy led to shortages of food and medicine, and untold numbers of people succumbed to disease and starvation. Families were also split up. The Khmer Rouge created labor brigades, assigning groups depending on age and gender. This policy resulted in hundreds of thousands of Cambodians starving to death” (“Cambodia”). In the book Night, there is a quote stating “There was still some food left. But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to economize to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worse yet” ( Wiesel 23). this quote shows that people were starved to death and never ate enough to satisfy their hunger. In both stories, people were separated from their homes the book Night was about people fighting for their lives as well as being moved to concentration camps and working literally until they fell over and died Jews were transported by trains or trucks and others in the holocaust were forced to walk days after days