What Happened In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

According to the texts and eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused.

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

There has been many stories on how cruel the victims of the Holocaust were treated, especially in the concentration camps. The Auschwitz concentration camps, out of many other camps is where this all occurred.The victims were abused and put through forced labor, it was physically and mentally hard for them to live in the camps knowing in the matter of days they will die. The prisoners in the camps were forced to work, the sick and disabled prisoners were killed as they were seen as “useless” since they were not capable of working. The labor consisted of digging ditches, leveling the ground, laying roads, and constructing new blocks and buildings for a tough 11-14 hours a day. During the tiring and inevitable hours of working, the prisoners had small rations of food.The meals were

When Hitler came to power, things changed in Europe. Adolf spread Concentration camps around Europe. He used a system for the killings. The prisoners could get shot to death, buried alive, sent to crematorium, or sent to the gas chambers. Most of this happened in Auschwitz. Josef Mengele selected prisoners for the gas chambers in Auschwitz. He also would do cruel experiments on prisoners (mainly twins). He was called the Angel of Death for his cruel and disgusting experiments. “He enlisted in the Nazi stormtroopers in 1993 and joined the newly founded institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene the next year.” (Mengele

Auschwitz was one of the most well-known concentration camps, a camp which held many prisoners who were often judged by their looks, race, and religion and not by their actions. In concentration camps people were forced to work and not given basic human rights. Auschwitz was by far the largest concentration camp during World War Two. It quickly gained a reputation for torture and harsh treatment of the prisoners. Auschwitz has a history that can give a person the chills from the horror of the mistreatment of prisoners.

In “Night” the setting creates an anticipating mood which often makes the reader want to keep reading and see how the story develops. When Wiesel describes the Germans appearance he does so as the Jews are gaining optimism and think that the Germans would not come to their town while the author is still hesitant to believe they won’t come to Sighet making the reader want to know if the people or the author is correct. Whenever Wiesel says “The trees were in bloom . It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, it’s weddings,and it’s births.”(8) Things like this would make the Jews happy and think that nothing could rain on their parade. He continues to say later “The news spread through Sighet like wildfire. Soon

Imagine being pried away from your family. Not only that, but being left at the concentration camps, knowing that you are about to face the dreaded word “death”. Concentration camps broke people’s hearts and changed them forever. They had to encounter many terrifying and petrifying medical experiments. Alongside that, the so called “concentration camps” were basically almost becoming, or were, actual death camps. The things that they had to endure were heartbreaking and agonizing. They were starved from the moment that they got there until the end. If they were lucky, their concentration camp would’ve been liberated by the Allies. Most were not so lucky. During the Holocaust, many different concentration camps were built that were to change the lives of people forever.

Joshua Graham once said, “I survive because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” The honored novel, Night by: Elie Wiesel is a fantastically well composed novel conveying the horrors and, survivors of the famous Holocaust. This novel tells of the experience of Elie and his father’s journey through the period of time known as, the holocaust. All Jews were thrown out of their homes and brought to the concentration camps starting in 1933. Elie went through all three of the “ worst” concentration camps, while struggling with some of rough aspects of camp. Eliezer was torn from his mother and siblings at the beginning, then he had to go the industrious work from the labor camps. In the end Elie’s father did not survive the concentration camps so Eliezer ended up alone. These tragic events tore Elie from his former religious kind self, and made him a rough, almost non existent shell of his former self.

The lives of prisoners in the Holocaust was horrific due to Hitler’s rule. Between 1933-1945, there were thousands of people killed each day because of their religion and ethnic group. By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million people had been murdered thanks to the Nazi soldiers running the concentration camps. Over the course of months, things continued to worsen and the death count increased daily. The soldiers were trained and experienced at killing which heightened the situation, considering they could kill more people than ever before. Many young children lost their chance of life because the soldiers killed everyone, no matter what age. Anyone, brought to a camp was either killed on the spot, or was worked to death by the soldiers.

Holocaust survivor, Anne Frank, once said, “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example” (“Auschwitz concentration camps”“). Throughout the Holocaust millions died. The Jews were put into ghetto’s before being boarded to concentration camps. Concentration camps were cruel and killed large sums of people. The ghettos were cramped and didn’t range very far, and possessed Horribly living conditions. The Holocaust was a gigantic slaughter fest, life was terrible for Jews during the holocaust.

The novel Night is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel of his life in a concentration camp. During World War II, anti-Semitism spread in Europe and people like Hitler and his Nazi army started targeting all sorts of Jews, believing them to be “lesser beings”. The Nazis forced the Jews from their homes and into ghettos to isolate them and then deported them to concentration camps. In these Nazi concentration camps, beatings and hangings were common as the SS officers tried to make an example out of the misbehaving prisoners.

I would recommend this memoir to others for several reasons. I believe that many people don’t know as much about the holocaust as they should, even people whose ancestors had to experience it. Before we read the saw section from Night, I had never actually read a real story from the holocaust, i had only seen movies and read realistic fiction stories that depicted stories that were similar to real events in one way or another. The first person point of view and literary elements that Wiesel uses really helps the reader understand how terrifying being in a concentration camp was, especially during selection. Throughout the passage Wiesel uses several literary elements, such as verbal irony, repetition, and parallelism. On page 310 Wiesel uses

Jews had to share room, bunks, and restrooms with everyone else. Jews were treated brutally and were tortured. They were hardly ever fed and if they were it would be a small amount. Diseases were also spread around quickly. Many of these camps didn’t even have furniture for the Jews. When they did, they would have to share bunks. Many people shared rooms and bunks. Multiple people would sleep on bunks. They were never washed or cleaned. Nazi soldiers would also trick the Jews into thinking they would get to shower. They would give them procedures such “Take off all your clothes.” The Jews actually didn’t know they were walking into gas chambers and that they will die in shortly as to 5 minutes. Everyone were put into gas chambers like men, elderly, women, children, and

Have you ever wondered what it was like for the jews living in the camps? The daily life in the camps is a realistic clarification of how jews were treated and taken cared of in the concentration camps. People were taken out of their homes by the Nazis and were forced into concentration camps. The Nazis were a party of people that believed that their German race was better than any other race that is why jews and many others were forced out of their homes into the camps. The largest number of prisoners were jews but other individuals were arrested and locked up for many purposes such as, for nationality and for political joining. Prisoners were subjugated to unbelievable torture from the very moment they reported to the camps

In June, 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened; this camp would later be the home and death place of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Jews, Poles, and Gypsies made up the large majority of prisoners in the camp. Life in Auschwitz included living in undesirable conditions, and being kept on a very strict schedule day in, day out.