Elie Wiesel Kavaly And The Holocaust

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....” –Elie Wiesel expressed shortly after his harsh experience with the Holocaust. As many read through Elie’s book Night, they recognize what Elie fought through while he was staying in the Concentration Camps. People have realized the brutal conditions that the he had gone through and have came to the thought of how it effected his future and what he has done ever since the horrible Holocaust.

In the year 1941, Lithuania was invaded and many Jewish families fled from Lithuania. Margarets family didn't leave because her brother Alik was at a children's holiday camp. Margaret was never sent to a camp, she lived in the ghetto. Margaret's description of the ghetto years as “dreadful”. The people were forced to do hard labour and were deprived of their food.

     Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all the people that he thought were inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, because he wanted a pure Aryan State.

Dzungar, Holodomor, Rwandan, Cambodians, Armenians, Circassian, Ottoman Greek, and the Jewish. All too many genocides. When will it stop? When will we learn? When will we stop forgetting about the past and when will the history books end the patterns of war and death? When? The survivors share their stories, but do we listen? Elie Wiesel was a fifteen year old boy with the a life ahead of him, when his religion, following Judaism, made him a target in Adolf Hitler's extermination plans. He was only a boy. He had done nothing wrong, absolutely nothing, yet his life had been ended before it began. From Auschwitz to Birkenau to Buna to Gleiwitz and Gleiwitz to Buchenwald. Wiesel endured separation and starvation, to survive the brutality of the Jewish Holocaust that left millions of others dead. Individuals with lives, with hopes, with dreams, suffering with no end, and losing everything upon survival. Adults, children, elderly, everyone one of them innocent. As individuals living without these threats we cannot empathize for the horror stories we hear, since we have no personal connection, we can only sympathize for them. With no personal connection to the events, it is sure that we will forget Wiesel, but why do we forget? Because humans are imperfect beings? How do we stop erring and forget the mistakes that have preceded us? Humans struggle to understand that the mistakes of one individual do not define those similar to them. If human can attempt to

Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.

Communism is a “Political theory advocating class war and leading to a society which all property is publicly owned and each person works and paid according to their abilities” After world war 2 communism took over Czechoslovakia and people flocked to join the party. Not everyone was convinced that the party was what the country needed for them to gain peace. The party had lots of propaganda and were in control of peoples live therefore convincing people to join the party even if reluctant. In Under a Cruel Star, Kovaly recounts her time after the war and joining the communist party and then being shunned when her husband was convicted of a crime. She talks about how people put blind faith in a party that didn't have much scientific evidence to back up their claims. Kovaly said the most people went to the communist party because when coming back from the concentration camp they wanted to be in control of property again and they stayed because they felt helpless without the party providing services. They went from one type of totalitarian government to another kind of government that controlled everything they did. People of the time didn't realize that communism didn't benefit people who weren't in an elite class.

Night tells of an unexplainable tragedy, known as the Holocaust, that affected many parts of Europe. Elie Wiesel’s view of the Holocaust, through his experiences, is able to show that the Holocaust had a strong affect on not just the people enduring it, but also the people that heard about or witnessed it. The readers are introduced to the new perspective of the Holocaust. It caused emotional and physical damage to many of its victims. There were dead bodies along the streets, and people were burned alive. Families were torn apart and friendships were ruined. None of the people had any idea of what was going to be on the road ahead of them, let alone what would happen when they turned the corner. During desperate times, some people seem to

Night, by Elie Wiesel, showed the devastation of Eliezer’s childhood and illustrated the loss of innocence through the evil of others. Elie Wiesel expressed to us that one’s own faith and beliefs can be challenged through torture and ongoing suffering. The novel, Night, allowed the reader to witness the change in Eliezer from one of an innocent child who strongly adhered to his faith in God into a person who questioned not only his faith and God but of himself as well. The cruelty is shown to him while in the concentration camp forced him to wonder if there was a God and if so why would he put him and the others through such torture. Through his suffering, Eliezer’s beliefs dramatically and negatively changed his faith in God and compelled him to experience a transformative relationship with his father.

Throughout time, Jewish communities have been treated with immense hate and exclusion from other cultures because no one accepted their religion. Coming to the time before WWII, events like Kristallnacht demonstrated the despise for Jews that dwelled inside the general population of Germany when the Germans went to Jewish houses and stores to burn and destroy them. In the course of WWII, they were harassed, abused, tortured and ruined, as all of their business stocks and assets were taken away. During the expanse of this horrific battle, Jews were forced to live in designated areas known as concentration camps where they had to overcome obstacles such as hunger, freezing temperatures, and the loss of precious family members. These camps were used to fulfill Hitler’s intent to annihilate the Jewish population from the face of the planet and this dangerous idea was called “purify the country”. In total, there were about 25 of these camps built where 6 million Jews died, including 1.5 million children. Auschwitz was a camp which was responsible for 1 million deaths alone, and this is the camp where Elie Wiesel was first sent to endure the hatred of the Nazis. This camp changed the way Elie Wiesel viewed the world because he saw and experienced things that will stayed with him forever. He was transformed into a new person who neglected his religion, failed to protect the one he held dear to him, and put his

Who is Elie Wiesel ? Elie Wiesel  was a holocaust survivor. He struggled during the holocaust, but he managed to fight threw. He survived during this horrible time period where everyone kept silent. Many times he thought to himself that he was not going to survive the days would get worse for him. The Nazis would treat them horrible they also lived in horrible  conditions.  Him and the other men and children there would only get a little portion of foods. Many of them would starve and some would share between them some food they would

How did Elie Wiesel change within the holocaust he changed a lot thought out the holocaust as a person with appearance his faith. You will be reading about how Elie Wiesel changed.

Elie Wiesel experienced several horrors throughout the Holocaust. As a boy, he lost his family and his faith in his own religion because of the mass slaughter of six million Jews along with several different races and religions. Elie describes scenes that a fifteen year old child should never have to see such as frantic families lined up for a death in fire, bodies crushed all over as people ran them over, and babies being thrown into pits of fire.

Have you ever heard about Elie Wiesel? Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. He got taken to a concentration camp at the young age of 14 with his mother, father, and his older and younger sisters. After he got freed, the Holocaust had such an impact on him that he wrote multiple books over it. Even though he went through a lot of trauma, he was still strong the whole way through and decided to share his story with the world.

Every student in the United States learns about the Holocaust and how horrible it was at some time during their education. They learn about how corrupt Adolf Hitler was and about how many people died. They learn about how the United States army came in and tipped the scale in favor of the Allies. However, there are some details about the Holocaust that are left out due to their horror. What some people do not realize is how poorly these prisoners of war were treated and how they were tortured. Only a true account of the Holocaust can truly convey these terrors and the effects they had on the victims. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel communicated the magnitude of the dehumanization that occurred during the Holocaust and how it affected everyone

Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was a Holocaust survivor—who encouraged by Francois Mauriac (a famous French writer)— broke his ten-year vow of silence and published Night, a memoir with intense first person point-of-view documentation of Nazi brutality. Wiesel’s Night holds significance because it is as personal and piercing as The Diary of Anne Frank. Overall, Elie Wiesel is an Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness to the six million Jews that were murdered in World War II. Today people recognize him for being a distinguished humanitarian, professor, and activist. He died at age 87.