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Elie Wiesel was a “Human Rights Activist and a Noble-Peace Prize winning author” (Austerlitz). He wrote about the time in the concentration camps. He wrote many books, but was most noticeable for the book Night (Austerlitz). Wiesel was also convicted and could not remain silent. Wiesel spoke for the Rights of the Kurdish. He wanted to help out the people during these acts. After what happened to him, he didn’t want other people to go through what he did

Early 1940s, an observant, young boy, and his caring father: the start to a story that would become known throughout the world of Eliezer Wiesel. His eye-opening story is one of millions born from the Holocaust. Elie’s identity, for which he is known by, is written out word for word his memoir, Night. Throughout his journey, Elie’s voice drifts from that of an innocent teen intrigued with the teachings of his religion to that of a soul blackened by a theoretical evil consuming that of the Nazis and Hitler’s Germany. Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, examines the theme of identity through the continuous motifs of losing one’s self in the face of death and fear, labeling innocent people for a single dimension of what defines a human being, and

Elie Wiesel was a Jewish American born in Romania. His principles were influenced by being raised in a heavily religious and liberal family. In the 1940s, his own country forced his family to flee to the ghettos, and not long after, Wiesel, “a young Jewish boy from a small town,” was captured by Nazis, waking up to the perilous realization of “eternal infamy”(Wiesel). In April 1945, after enduring through starvation and punishment, he was finally liberated.

In 1940 , Hungary annexed sighet and the wiesel’s were among the jewish families and forced to live in the ghettos.May 1944,Nazi Germany with the Hungary’s agreement, forced jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of Fifteen Wiesel’s family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million jews. Wiesel’s family was affected during the holocaust, all jews were forced to have their heads shaved and a number tattooed on their heads after all the men left the barber they were all standing around naked finding acquaintances and old friends, they are joyful at finding each other still alive. Elie Wiesel’s Night highlights the overarching issues of discrimination toward the Jews as they are forced to abandon their lives and face a death that consumer their existence, relationships and faith.

Intro/thesis: What was it that really changed Elie Wiesel? Was it the millions of families and children that burned before him? Was it that his father, the one he continued to have hope for was taken right from him? What many ways changed Elie Wiesel during his experience with the Holocaust? Elie Wiesel was taken from his home Sighet, Transylvania when he was just fifteen years old. He planned to study his religion as he got older and to live a normal life. This quickly changed when the Nazi officers began to round up Jews in his city. Him and his family were taken in cattle cars to Auschwitz, a camp where jews were immediately killed or worked to death. Elie and his father stay together, but are separated from the rest of their family, whom

Elie Wiesel’s life has been molded by the events he endured while in Auschwitz during World War 2. His memoir, “Night,” illustrates his life during the darkest moment in Jewish history. The story begins in 1941 in the town of Sighet, where Eliezer his parents are shopkeepers and he strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law. By 1944, the Hungarian government fell to the Fascists which resulted in the eventual oppression of Jews in Sighet, where Eliezer, his family, and other Jews are forced to wear yellow stars and succumb to the strict measures of the Germans. Later, the Jews are herded into ghettos, where they unknowingly awaited their trains for Auschwitz. By the end of his ordeal and his liberation from the camp, he had witnessed the

Elie Wiesel was a devout follower of the Jewish faith. At a young age, he developed a strong desire to grow in his faith by studying and following Jewish principles. Under the instruction of his mentor, Moishe the Beadle, Elie studied the Torah and the Cabbala. He described his first account of Jewish oppression when Moishe was deported for months and returned to Sighet to inform the remaining Jews of the deportees’ fate and to warn them of what was to come. He spoke of Jews being brutally abused and infants burned alive. No one seemed to heed Moishe’s warning. Soon after, German Nazis invaded Hungary and forced Elie and his family along with several other Jewish communities into small ghettos. This was only the beginning of the numerous accounts of brutality and suffering that he would face.

The Holocaust was a horrible period of punishment and a misery to the people who lived through this period of time. Up to 6 million jews were estimated of being killed during this period of time. This has affected and impacted many people’s lives and in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, he will forever reminisce his experience in a Nazi concentration camp during the holocaust. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.

Elie Wiesel’s short memoir Night recounts his experience surviving the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the third chapter of the book, he focuses on describing what it was like to arrive at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the process the men had to go through to transform from men into prisoners. In addition to lying about his age and occupation, Wiesel lost his hair, his clothing, his mother and sisters, his name, and most importantly, his faith. Elie Wiesel's use of imagery and diction in Night makes readers understand the true atrocities of the Holocaust.

The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of the horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps, mainly Buchenwald, and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid, unforgettable, and shocking images of the past. It is beneficial that Wiesel published this, if he had not the world might not have known the extent of the Nazis reign. He exposes the cruelty of man, and the misuse of power. Through a lifetime of tragedy, Elie Wiesel struggled internally to resurrect his religious

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the small town of Sighet Romania. (Roth page 1) He was 3rd born and the only son to Sholmo and Sarah Wiesel. (Roth page 1) In Elie’s hometown of Sighet about 40% of the population was Jewish.

Such a heinous event that has marked the world and the Jewish religion, Eliezer Wiesel as a young man recalls the story of the horrid occurrences that he went through in the concentration camps. He has been able to express throughout the book changes in himself, changes in his faith, and changes in his decisions as he went through the course

Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who wrote a firsthand account of his experiences – Night. He was from Sighet. Although, given the opportunity to flee to Palestine, most of the Jews who were in Sighet did not believe that the Nazis would be able to get to them before World War II would come to an end (Wiesel 8). Wiesel and his family – his mother, his father and three sisters – were evacuated from their home in 1944 – near the end of World War II. Night by Elie Wiesel demonstrates that tragedy does not disappear from a person’s memory; instead, it shapes that person to be more empathetic, aware of the importance of hope and the need for a purpose in life.

The Holocaust appeared to be a time of darkness and it seemed like on Earth and in heaven, each doorway of humanity, empathy, and kindness had been closed down. Those who did not encounter the Holocaust cannot begin to comprehend what it was like, however, those who did cannot begin to express it. Torture, genocide, and cruel acts started to fill brains and souls. The Holocaust was an event where millions of people were being murdered during World War II. The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is based on Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps, in order to give readers an insight of someone who was a victim of the Holocaust. The young narrator, Elie Wiesel, faces countless struggles for survival among the horrors of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Eliezer, the passionately, devoted boy with a benevolent family, is taken from his home and sent to a concentration camp. Through their unstable and dangerous journey, Elie is detached from his mother and sisters but lingers on with his father, only to be relocated from camp to camp. Elie mentions the death of numerous family members, the death of his own identity and innocence, to an extent in which living or dying did not matter anymore. In Night, Wiesel reveals that the exposure to an unsympathetic, bitter world generates to the destruction of the three main themes throughout the memoir which are; religious faith, identity, and family.

In the preface of Night by Elie Wiesel, he believed that “I need to give some meaning to my survival”(viii). After enduring the pain of this tragic event, Elie Wiesel wanted to preserve the history of the Holocaust. He felt like it was his moral duty to tell his story so that he can prevent history from repeating itself. Elie Wiesel didn’t want the experiences and stories of the Holocaust to be suppressed, in which he decided to write a book about his incident. In an interview with Edith Goldberg from “holocaustlearning.org”, she decided to tell her story and observed that if “they don’t teach it right it doesn’t come out right”(Goldberg). Edith Goldberg was hesitant to talk about her experience for 30 years, for she didn’t want to relive the past. However, she decided to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust to prevent a similar incident. She believed that if she didn’t speak out their experience, people will start to interpret and misunderstand history. Lastly, a survivor named Eugene Black from “holocaustlearning.org” said in an interview that “live and let live because we only here for a short short while”(Black). Eugene Black realized that people needed to acknowledge the tragedy of concentration camps, in order to preserve history. After his survival, he learned to forgive others so he wouldn’t be overwhelmed with hatred in his