Night by Elie Wiesel was published in 1955 and narrates the author’s personal experiences during the Holocaust. Young Elie Wiesel recounts his struggles as he was forced into various concentration camps through his writing. The events that are written in Wiesel’s Night exemplify the brutality evident during the 1940’s Nazi Era. Eliezar Wiesel was born on on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania, now Romania. He attended a nearby yeshiva, a Jewish institution that studies traditional religious texts, until he was fifteen years old. When he was fifteen, Elie and his family were forced into concentration camp Auschwitz. Starting in 1938, under Adolf Hitler’s order, Nazi soldiers forced great numbers of people into concentration camps whose, …show more content…
Religion played a large factor in the people who go into concentration camps. Nazi soldiers were ordered to “hunt” for homosexuals, gypsies, mentally ill, disabled, and primarily people of the Jewish religion. As World War II escalated, so did the amount concentration camps and Jewish murders. People were taken for their religion at Hitler’s discretion. Hitler simply did not like the Jewish and made it easy to convince the rest of Germany to despise them too. He gave them the blame of losing World War I, which angered Germany to a point where the people would attack the people of Jewish …show more content…
Wiesel writes about the hunger he had to go through,”Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days except for a few stalks of grass and potato peels found on the grounds of the kitchen” (Wiesel 114). However, other inmates took hunger much harder than young Eliezer. “One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out his bag and threw it into wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs” ( Wiesel 100). Eliezer had to witness brutal hangings of young children, while showing no emotion to avoid being beaten. Despite being emotionless, beatings were still given to the innocent. Wiesel recounts,”One day when Idek [Elie’s Kapo,a prisoner appointed by the Nazis to police other prisoners] was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood. As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit me harder and harder” (Wiesel
Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.
During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.
Quick summary- In the autobiography Night, which took place in many concentration camps in Germany throughout WWII. The author Elie Wiesel, wrote about himself, and the many others that went through the Holocaust. He taught us about his long journey through the terrible time and what he had to go through to come out alive.
In the beginning he was horrified of the things he saw. On his first day at a concentration camp Elie saw babies being thrown into large pits of fire, people being taken to the crematory and Jews being hit and beaten for no reason. As time past and Wiesel was moved from camp to camp he started to only care about his survival and the horrible things done by the Nazi’s became apart of his everyday life.He saw a boy whose face he said looked like the face of an angel being hung. The little boy struggled to breathe for over thirty minutes before the life in his eyes faded away. Wiesel's own father was beaten because he was sick and not given the proper medical care from the nazi’s. Days later his father was taken to the crematory. Instead of Wiesel being sad he was relieved that he no longer had to take care of his father. Elie lost friends family and saw many more being killed. Wiesel was almost numb to the things happening around him.
Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on 15 year old Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust. Elie endures circumstances which are so extreme to the point they are almost unbelievable. Elie’s account of his experiences during his life in the concentration camps has taught readers around the world about how to appreciate everything they take for granted, how desperation can make people do crazy things, and the importance of motivation in tough times.
After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects. Wiesel’s identity changed completely during his experiences in Auschwitz; he lost his faith in God and he became indifferent to his survival and the survival of his family members. Despite these hardships, however, he ultimately became a stronger person than he was before.
During the holocaust the Nazis imprisoned millions of people, among them Elie Wiesel and his family. Elie Wiesel is the main character and author of Night and is victim to many atrocities committed by the Nazis. His journey lasts over a year in which he undergoes many hardships. He uses his father as motivation to survive the horrible things that are done to him. In the novel Night, Elie and the other prisoners experience dehumanization through poor living conditions and abusive treatment by the Nazi guards.
Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust and an author, was put in Auschwitz with his family which consisted of his father, Shlomo Wiesel, his mom,Sarah feig, and his little sister,Tzipora wiesel.Adolf Hitler was behind the concentration camps and world war two, he was the leader of the SS officers and the germans. He was put in the camp in 1944 and was liberated by the russians in April 11th,1945.The book Night shows how the SS officers broke the jews and installed fear and hopelessness in them. “Night” also shows how Elie was dehumanized from a young and religious jewish boy to a blank, walking corpse by the end of the liberation. We ,as readers , see these acts of dehumanization throughout the book many times, but these three are the main
Night by Elie Wiesel is about his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 to 1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War. It is
Night is an book that is filled with many different stories throughout the story. During the holocaust the prisoners in the camps killed, lied, and stole from each other because in these camps everything goes to survive. Night By Elie Wiesel, involves many cases on the dehumanization of Elie, and his other prison mates. The dehumanization happens all throughout the book such as: The incident that Mrs. Schachter has, a boy and his father on a train is another , And Elie’s thoughts changing and becoming intense and crazy.
After selection, Elie is stripped of his clothes and beaten. He tries to “protect himself from the blows”(41) but is unsuccessful. A young Polish man comforts Elie by telling him to not “lose hope” (41). These are the “first human words” Elie has heard upon his arrival (41). German officers maim and demolish any desire to survive that may thrive in prisoners. It is not common to witness compassion in the hands of the SS officers. Threats consumed the lives of innocent men, women and children. For a young man Wiesel had never met to reassure him (Elie) shows that few prisoners maintained their
The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Wiesel's experience during the Holocaust. In the novel, it explains what Wiesel had to experience during the Holocaust. It also tells how much he had to endure and how much he lost over the course of his life in the camps. It also explains how his life and everything around him changed in one single night. In the novel, it tells clearly of everything Wiesel and the people around him lost.
The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.
The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.
day before, one of which was merely a child so light in weight that he