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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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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

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