Elie Wiesel : The Concentration Camps Of The Holocaust

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

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 Auschwitz alone, approximately 1.1 million innocent beings were killed (about.com). For those living during that time, just how significant to them was human survival? Author Elie Wiesel writes about his suffering, and doesn’t fail to include many themes, including will power and survival. Night takes place during 1940’s, which is when the genocide of the Jews occurred. The main character, Elie (also the author), shares his experience in concentration camps. He and his father underwent all sorts of misery, from starvation, to hard labor, death marches, and plenty more. Having the opportunity to share his experience, the author emphasizes certain topics. Elie Wiesel uses diction, setting, and figurative language in Night to

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

“I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer--or my life, period-- would not become what it is: that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory” (Wiesel, Night viii). As a result of the horrors that Elie Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, he devoted his life to become meaningful. Wiesel’s decent disposition changes through atrociously inhumane conduct toward Jews during the Holocaust as he becomes a brute to solidify identity, levy fears, and boost morale.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel (1958), a theme of Elie’s decisions becomes clear and has a pattern. The book’s story took place during the holocaust. This was an emotional and discouraging worldwide trauma. Jews were singled out and “not wanted” by Hitler. Hitler was a German natzi.

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.

The Holocaust was a tragic event that involved the murder of millions of Jews from the years 1938 to 1945. Elie Wiesel was a victim to this, being a Jew himself. The book he wrote, Night, tells his story and how he survived, changed, and adapted to being put into labor camps and forced to work and was starved. Elie was forced to work for nearly four years in these camps surrounded by hundreds of other enslaved Jews. His experience was the definition of trauma. The traumatic experience altered his relationship with his father and emotionally changed him.

Over the course of eleven years, an approximated eleven million Jews were killed. This catastrophe is commonly know as the Holocaust. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany (Rosenberg). Among the few hundred survivors was Elie Wiesel. Wiesel was only fifteen years old when him and his family were deported to a concentration camp. His mother, father and younger sister were all killed within the camp, but Wiesel and his two older sisters were able to survive. After his traumatizing experience, Wiesel stood up for others who were being oppressed. Elie Wiesel fought injustices world-wide through his actions and inspiring messages.

Although a lot of people have heard of the horrors experienced by the Jews during their forced imprisonment in the concentration camps of the Nazi Germans, there are a still a lot more people who doubt that such horrible acts or abominations were ever committed against any race. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, in his autobiography, Night, shares his experiences of life in the Nazi German concentrations camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Wiesel, as a 13-year-old teenager who grew up in the Jewish community of Sighet, Transylvania, was a very religious young man who was ready to dedicate his life to the service of God. But as the war began and as he witnessed his family and friends being brutally maltreated and murdered by the Nazi Germans, he started to doubt the existence of a merciful, kind and loving God.

Over the course of only twelve years, the Nazis managed to gradually convert a large portion of the Jewish nation from citizens to livestock in the eyes of almost an entire nation. Twelve years does not seem like a long time for such an atrocity to occur, especially in the middle of the 20th century, long past the barbaric days of Jews being persecuted for their religion. Every move the Nazis made was cold, calculated, and significantly gradual. They knew that if they were to start sending people to concentration camps immediately that there would be riots, resistance, and the German people may not stand for something so uselessly horrific. Instead, they took their time, slowly and carefully stripping the Jewish people of their rights, and the people took little notice at the tide lapping at their feet until the waves had consumed them, and they had already drowned. Hitler seized power in 1933, and in 1945, up to 6 million Jews had perished at his command before the war finally ended. During that time the German people had come to see the Jewish people as little more than a virus, invading their country and destroying their lives from the inside. Elie Wiesel recounts 5 years of abuse at the hands of the Nazi party that he endured in his critically acclaimed novel Night. Over the course of the book he describes, from a first person perspective, the calculated and gradual dehumanization of the Jewish people.

Over the course of only twelve years, the Nazis managed to gradually convert a large portion of the Jewish nation from citizens to livestock in the eyes of almost an entire nation. Twelve years does not seem like a long time for such an atrocity to occur, especially in the middle of the 20th century, long past the barbaric days of the Jews being persecuted for their religion. Every move the Nazis made was cold, calculated, and significantly gradual. They knew that if they were to start sending people to concentration camps immediately that there would be riots, resistance, and the German people may not stand for something so uselessly horrific. Instead, they took their time, slowly and carefully stripping the Jewish people of their rights, and the people took little notice at the tide lapping at their feet until the waves had consumed them, and they had already drowned. Hitler seized power in 1933, and in 1945, up to 6 million Jews had perished at his command before the war finally ended. During that time the German people had come to see the Jewish people as little more than a virus, invading their country and destroying their lives from the inside. Elie Wiesel recounts 5 years of abuse at the hands of the Nazi party that he endured in his critically acclaimed novel Night. Over the course of the book he describes, from a first person perspective, the calculated and gradual dehumanization of the Jewish people.

In the early 1930s to the mid 1940s, something very horrific happened; The Holocaust. This took place all over Europe when the Nazi’s took over many countries. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party. He made concentration camps to eliminate a big group of people. Hitler made the life of Jewish people terrible while in the concentration camps; he was an awful man who hated them in many ways. Adolf Hitler created concentration camps to kill the Jews and he did just that. Some examples include the organization and sanitation of the camps that caused many deaths. Also the life in camps for Jews were hard because of the rules they had to follow and obey. If they didn’t obey the rules then they were most likely dead.

Concentration camps was a horrible place to be at Jews from Germany were victims, they recall the torture that they were put through in camps. These camps had scar many innocent Jews due to the race they were because they were not German. Adolf Hitler created a full German army called the Nazi. The Nazi army would go house by house to hunt down for Jews no matter what they had to do. Hitler had demanded to eliminate all the Jews in Germany and in the near future for him to in-crease on the elimination, if anybody who did not have any sort of Jew blood they were okay to be free.

Adolf Hitler led a nation of Germans who were trying to rid of inferior races. He had a final solution that included deportation, abuse, and extermination of Jews. Concentration and death camps were an inherent feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Concentration camps were camps in which people were detained or confined. The people of Germany under Hitler’s rule had faced many harch and torturous conditions by being poorly treated and not protected during the years of 1933-1945. People like Jews, homosexuals, and political prisoners were placed in concentration camps and by Hitler allowing this happening, it showed the people that he would do anything to gain power.