Night Book Report

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.

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

My book report is for A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen. I chose this book because it describes the life of a twelve year old girl during the Great Berlin Wall. This book is about a young girl named Greta who is separated from her father and brother because of the Berlin Wall. One day Greta gets a message from her father. She thinks he wants her to start digging a tunnel. Greta finds and old abandoned building where she starts digging. Greta and her brother Fritz work long, tireless, never-ending days digging. One day there was someone of the other side of the tunnel, it was Papa. Once the tunnel was completed they set through it, escaping the treacherous East side, to the colorful bright West.

No where near as many people survived the Holocaust as the number that represents the people that died in it. Some survivors of the attempted genocide let their lives end at the Holocaust and kept living in the past, others let it inspire them to move forward and help others. Two such people are Corrie Ten Boom and Elie Wiesel.

​ Cruelty. Faith. Survival. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie, his family, and other Jews are tricked into concentration camps and made prisoners. Here they are treated cruelly, and struggle to survive. This marks the beginning of the Holocaust for Elie but the end for a endless amount of others. When life was normal, Eli had a strong belief in god but as the conditions become less bearable he starts to question his faith and ultimately loses it.

Night by Elie Wiesel was one of the best books I have ever read. Night is the story about Elie’s horrible time spent in Auschwitz and Buna the death camps. This story impacted me the most because all of this is real. Elie’s mother and sister were murdered as soon as they arrived. The story goes on telling his unimaginable experiences with his father in 1944 during the Holocaust.

Compassion is shown in Night by Elie Wiesel in a way that helps him get through all the disturbing and distressing situations he is put in. When Elie first gets to Birkenau, he is scarred by what he sees around him. Elie initially does not believe that compassion can exist during these times. But a stranger, who is a fellow inmate, gives him invaluable advice: “No. You’re eighteen.’ ‘But I’m not,’ I said. ‘I’m fifteen.’ ‘Fool. Listen to what I say,” (Wiesel 30). This inmate shows concern towards Elie and his father even though there was nothing expected in return for his words. Compassion was unusual during this time amongst people because everyone just wanted to be able to take care of themselves and their families. An inmate showing compassion had a positive effect on Elie, which resulted in him being spared from going directly to the crematorium. Another example of compassion that Elie faces through his journey is when he encounters the French girl who gives him advice by telling him to

Over 6,000,000 died and only 900,000 survived. The Holocaust is one of the darkest moments in world history. Hitler was a German dictator who wanted to create a supreme race; blue eyes and blonde hair were some of the requirements. Because the majority of Jews did not fit that description, they were targeted. Thousands of them were sent to concentration camps to die, while others were arrested and killed. In an attempt to save as many lives as possible, many people hid Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Three individuals who did this are Irena Sendler, Karolina Juszczykowska, and Raoul Wallenberg.

In the beginning he was horrified of the things he saw. On his first day at a concentration camp Elie saw babies being thrown into large pits of fire, people being taken to the crematory and Jews being hit and beaten for no reason. As time past and Wiesel was moved from camp to camp he started to only care about his survival and the horrible things done by the Nazi’s became apart of his everyday life.He saw a boy whose face he said looked like the face of an angel being hung. The little boy struggled to breathe for over thirty minutes before the life in his eyes faded away. Wiesel's own father was beaten because he was sick and not given the proper medical care from the nazi’s. Days later his father was taken to the crematory. Instead of Wiesel being sad he was relieved that he no longer had to take care of his father. Elie lost friends family and saw many more being killed. Wiesel was almost numb to the things happening around him.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel inhumanity can cause people to lose hope. To begin with, Elie's dad was getting beat for his food because people were hungry “my son they are beating me”(Wiesel 109). How inhumanity can cause people to lose hope. Elie is losing hope because his dad is old and getting beat and he's also losing hope because he is hungry. It makes Elie to give up on his dad and he doesn't want to. In fact, Elie woke up and “on my father cot there lay another sick person “(Wiesel 112). This causes Elie to lose hope because him and his father

The Holocaust occurred around the 1940’s. It was a horrific event. Nazis, an Aryan superiority race, took over Jews in Germany and proceeded to do awful things to them. The Nazis were torturing these Jews, take the littlee bit of self-confidence and recognition they had as a Jew. It was already bad enough that Jews were shunned before the Holocaust came onto the picture. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were killed in concentration camps or work camps. They were stripped of their individuality and had no freedom really. Still to this day, no one knows exactly why a group of people would do such a thing as killing millions of innocent people. At the age of around fourteen, a young lad named Eliezer Wisel survived the Holocaust and lived

The parent's job is to be a role model for their kid, and look over there family. How will it be easy to do this and look over a child who has mental disability/issues? Will this family still have a strong relation with each other? The book, “the curious incident in the night time” is based on a 15 year old teen named Christopher, who faces many challenges and objects in his life. He also has to faces aspergers which, is a type of autism and which also plays a big role in his teen years. Christopher has difficulties making the right decisions and therefore has can't be left alone in public. Also his dad, Ed Bone is also under the pressure of raising his son without a wife/mom. Ed bone has also has gone through harsh things such as divorce and

Today is September 1st, 1939 in Holland. Right now I’m going to be writing a book, it is going to be really good. I wish it would be published so that lots of people could read it and enjoy it. Once I’m finished with my book I will lend a copy to my good friends the Franks. The Franks are, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Margot Frank, and Anne Frank. So it’s 1:00 in the afternoon and while I was in the middle of writing my book I was interrupted by a loud, BANG! Then there were even more loud noises and I started to think that they were gunshots, so I looked at my window and i saw a Jew laying on the ground dead and next to him was a Nazi with a rifle. I quickly ran over to the Frank’s House to see if they heard the shots and they did. Every single one of us started wondering why they would kill Jews. We knew it was because of Adolf Hitler, he is in control of the Nazis. Everyday now for the past week there has been at least one killing of a Jew. I started to think that we were going to be in a war with the Germans. The next day seven Jews were shot and killed and lots of people were being taken to a place called Concentration Camps. It is a horrible place, they hardly feed you, it is just a complete disaster. The Franks are going into this hideout called the Secret Annex, the Secret Annex is hidden in Otto Frank’s business place. The Secret Annex entrance is covered by a moving bookshelf. Also I have to take care of my family too, my son and my husband. So everyday someone has

Eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust. To put that in perspective, imagine waking up and all the people in New York and Chicago combined were killed. That is how many people had lost their lives because of what they believed in and how they looked. Racism, hatred, and bigotry toward the Jewish, gypsy, and others caused a genocide of innocent people. The ones who survived were left with a memory of fear and maltreatment. Very few are able to talk about what happened to this day.