Elie Wiesel Reflection

The emotional connection Wiesel has to the injustice and inhumane acts from other people being a survivor from the Holocaust

The date is April 11, 1945. A 17 year old boy looks towards the ominous gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp after nearly two years of misery and sees his first sign of hope: an American tank standing at the entrance of the gates. This young boy was Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the gruesome events that occurred in concentration camps during WWII. Elie shares a chilling memoir about his experience in his book Night. Throughout the novel, Elie and other Jewish inmates constantly used their families as their primary motive to overcome hardships even while being challenged by tough circumstances.

The Holocaust began around 1933 when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party. During that time, the first concentration camp, Dachau, was established to torture and kill Jewish people. Soon after, in 1935, Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews were decreed and depriving Jews of German citizenship. Germany then invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe. With the start of World War II came many more concentration camps, and millions of deaths. Six million European Jews lost their lives during this horrific time. Many survivors shared their stories after they were freed, so that the world would know of the horrors they experienced. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, told his story in his book, Night. Elie Wiesel was a teenager during the Holocaust, but lived on into his eighties and continued to speak out against what the Nazi’s did to his family.

The book Night is a memoir about Eliezer Wiesel’s greuling holocaust experience. This book discusses the the grim conditions and treatment that Mr. Weisel endured during this dark time period. Elie changed in many ways while in the camp because of the dreadful things he experienced. This essay will be focusing on the physical, spiritual, and mental changes that Eliezer went through.

Night is a brutally honest memoir of much of Elie Wiesel’s childhood. When Wiesel was young he was very devoted to his Religion, asking questions and reading scripture. When the trains were loaded Wiesel no longer had the words to express his disdain. After setting foot in Auschwitz Wiesel felt abandoned by god and no longer believed God was not righteous. Rightful decision he watched children burn, men get shot, women disappear to never return. Despite all this Wiesel never truly lost his religion explaining “I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”(45,Wiesel). As time passes faith was restored and like many Holocaust survivors Wiesel is still Jewish and was proud to tell the world about it to the day he died.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

In this passage Wiesel has become more overtly angry with God. He no longer hides behind the reverence he has grown up knowing. Rather he is openly charging God with not only the destruction of the Jewish people, but also with continually plaguing their thoughts. Having the false hope that God may one day save them seems like a cruel joke. Wiesel seems to be saying that if God has already decided not to save them, than the least He can do is quit allowing the people to pray to and follow Him.

Wiesel’s uses portions of his personal experiences to move his persuasive speech from a just one feeling.

A person could argue that because of on page eighty-seven he says “And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed in,” could show that all humans have a strong instinct to survive, is a bigger theme. In the story Wiesel says “And he began to beat him with an iron bar… I kept quiet… What is more, any anger I felt was directed, not against the Kapo, but against my father.” Wiesel talks about surviving the concentration camps, but losing his faith in god is a bigger

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.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a biography about his time in consittain camps during World War II. He had suffered from torture and loss. He first lost his mother and sisters while being spreaded from them. He, then, has to struggle to keep him and his father alive. After the amount and torture and the loss of his his, Elie was free with horror still inside of him. The novel is capable of teaching me about faith in God, family bond, taught society the worse in human nature, and inspired a writer to write their own society.

It shows that this thought has faced humankind for many generations. We always wonder why situations come up, and how a God can allow such things to happen. Even those who have always had a strong faith, and trust in God. In his book Wiesel mentioned, “There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text. I am not convinced.

You know something, I’m not very tall. However, I like to believe that the height I’m lacking was compensated by the enormous inquisitiveness that started from a young age which in turn gave me the gift of learning. I remember when I first learned about the Holocaust in my History class. I vividly remember asking questions, like “How was Hitler capable of manipulating others into killing innocent people?” to “How could the people around the world not do anything about it?” That curiosity lead me to read Night by Elie Wiesel.

During the years from 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany committed the most horrific event in human history. Knowns as the Holocaust, over 17 million humans were murdered, whether through execution or through neglect at various Nazi run Concentration Camps. Of those 17 million, six million of those killed were European Jews. Jews and other “undesirables” were targeted as they were thought to be inferior to other races, ethnicities, and cultures. Not all those who were forced into Concentration Camps died though, many in fact survived and survive to this day.

Elie Wiesel delves into the dynamic relationship of people in traumatic situations with God. As a boy placed in a concentration camp because