But who wouldn’t do whatever they have to in order to survive? But he did it all wholeheartedly to publicize Auschwitz. Dr. Nyiszli set a goal for himself unlike most prisoners and the most important part of it all was able to survive and tell his story and complete his
Zach Alderson Nelson Night 2 February 2023 Other Paragraph Thesis: However, the trauma Elie experiences when he enters the camp juxtaposed with the article “The Contributing Factors of Delayed-Onset Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms” reveals that trauma causes us to act in our own self-interest. To start, within the first five minutes of stepping into Auschwitz, Elie experiences his most memorable traumatic experience: a dump truckload of babies being thrown into a pit bound for their impending death. This can be seen on page 32 when Wiesel states,”A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children.
To commence, the people in power use authority to exploit their ‘captives’. In Night, Wiesel vividly describes the unfamiliarity of Auschwitz as he first arrives. The SS guards take this to their advantage by lying to
Love is the key aspect to stay alive at the concentration camp. Everyone who is at these camps is living for someone. Even though Wiesel was weak, and dying of malnutrition, he still worried for his father. This is shown in the quote, “I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did.”
But we no longer feared death, in any event not this particular death,” (60). By this point, Wiesel and the other Jews no longer fear death, as they are taking a part of the forced labor, they have lost their purpose of life, their
The first piece of advice about how to survive, given to Wiesel, was from a young Pole, a prisoner in charge of one of the prison blocks. After Eliezer, his father, and the rest of the selected prisoners, made the short march from Birkenau to Auschwitz. Upon arrival they were forced to shower. After the showers, they were left outside cold and wet, naked and never given the clothes they were promised. Guards came and told the prisoners they had to run, “The faster you run, the sooner you can go to bed” (page 38).
In fact, I was pleased with what was happening to him: my gold crown was safe”(Wiesel 52). The full impact of this scene requires a certain level of context. Before having entered Auschwitz Wiesel was but a young, simple,
A Nazi officer informed Elie and the other Jews arriving into Auschwitz of their fate if they were not to comply with commands. They critically enforced strict demands and standards to be followed: "'Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp.
After getting to the camp, the Jews were sorted. One of the inmates told them what could happen to them, and Elie says, “We stood stunned, petrified. Could this be just a nightmare? An unimaginable nightmare?” (Wiesel 31).
(106 Wiesel). Soon the only thing that Elizer cares about is his survival. Even after they had been freed and the Germans were destroyed, everyone from the camp didn’t feel vengeful; all they wanted was some
After Wiesel survived months in the cruel conditions under the SS, allied soldiers were approaching Auschwitz, so German authorities feverishly worked to cover up their evidence of the mass killings that had taken place. They moved thousands of prisoners to other camps, away from the front. Elie Wisel and his father, Shlomo, were just two of the 250,000 others who were forced on a death march, a brutal trip to the next camp. At the time, Elie had been under nursing care, due to having surgery done on his swollen foot. He and his father had the choice of staying, but after hearing out all the miserable options and living under the fear of getting sent to the crematorium, Elie said, “Let’s be evacuated with the others” (Wiesel
Wiesel wanted to make us feel sad and trust him by using pathos in the speech. At the beginning of the speech, he states, “Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” In this part of his talk, he tells the people that no one can ever make up for the loss of so many people in the concentration camps.
He felt it was important to relay the lessons he learned, so that others will not have to go through the same hardship, in the future. This reflects Moishe the Beadle’s struggles “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel, 6). These monstrous events are the result of not acting because they felt no personal connection. This resulted in not bearing witness, and the massive loss of life during The Holocaust. Making the choice to bear witness needs to be made before it is too late.
Dear Diary, We arrived in Auschwitz, but Elie and I were separated from my wife and the girls. The lines we went through were odd, some inmate came up to both Elie and me, to tell us that we shouldn’t be here and that our ages were wrong. I got really confused because I am fifty years old, but he had told me I was forty. I went through a different line than Elie did, but all I hope for is that we make it through and that neither of us dies. When I got up to the SS guard, I was scared, he had asked questions and all I tried to do was be honest, but in my mind, I thought that if I was honest I could get shot or taken to the crematorium.
It was sad to be taken to a concentration camp because it meant that it was the end of your life.
