Night Elie Wiesel Book Report

Elie Wiesel was a devout follower of the Jewish faith. At a young age, he developed a strong desire to grow in his faith by studying and following Jewish principles. Under the instruction of his mentor, Moishe the Beadle, Elie studied the Torah and the Cabbala. He described his first account of Jewish oppression when Moishe was deported for months and returned to Sighet to inform the remaining Jews of the deportees’ fate and to warn them of what was to come. He spoke of Jews being brutally abused and infants burned alive. No one seemed to heed Moishe’s warning. Soon after, German Nazis invaded Hungary and forced Elie and his family along with several other Jewish communities into small ghettos. This was only the beginning of the numerous accounts of brutality and suffering that he would face.

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.” ~ Adolf Hitler. The same stance that Hitler took against his military enemies is the one he used to kill each and every Jew from the inside, without ever using a single mortar, plane, or tank, and without specific action to do it. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a courageous, scholarly Holocaust survivor, many are desensitized and dehumanized through the Holocaust.

Why is the Holocaust such a horrendous genocide? The Holocaust was an event that spanned nearly four years, and over six million humans of the Jewish religion were enslaved and executed. To know how gross, unbelievable, and horrendous the Holocaust is, the memoir “Night”, written by Elie Wiesel, will surely tell you how. Furthermore, the book starts in a town named “Sighet” in Poland, in which a community of Jews lives in. Wiesel and all the Jews are then grouped up, and freighted off to a concentration camp called “Auschwitz.” Moreover, Auschwitz is one of many of camps; however, Auschwitz is the largest and famous of them all. Wiesel and his father will have many battles with faith and survival throughout the whole book. The Holocaust is the worst genocide ever to happen in the history due to the battle with faith, loss in humanity, and lives that are ruined.

Its 1944 and young Elie Wiesel is taken from his home in Sighet, Transylvania. After a 12 hour boxcar ride, Elie and the other jew from the town arrive in Oswiecim, Poland. All these innocent people will soon be loaded into the death camp “Auschwitz- Birkenau.” Throughout the Holocaust young Elie has changed from waiting for god to intervene in these horrible times to denying any and all hope from God. Elie says “It was nothing more than chance” (viii) that he survived.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about a teenage boy who lives through the holocaust. Before reading the book you need to know about the holocaust. The holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945. The holocaust is a genocide where 6 million Jews were killed by Nazis lead by Adolf Hitler. Hitler blamed the Jewish people for anything and everything. Hitler had the nazis take Jews to concentration camps. Families were broken apart and never seen their loved one again.

The infamous Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once said, “Being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil; that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen.” Wiesel was part of the millions of Jews and protesters who Nazis shipped off to numerous concentration camps during the Holocaust. The apprehended and inaccurately claimed convicts had to go through many terrors to survive. Wiesel was one of the few Jews who survived the time Hitler ruled. I agree with Wiesel’s significant quote for many various reasons. To begin, I agree with Wiesel’s statement because victims that could have helped others during the Holocaust ignored that there were evil actions occurring around them during the time Hitler ruled. The victims also ignored

Faith is something all humans want to believe they have. Faith can be religious, and everything in between. Faith gives people hope, especially in the darkest and hardest of times. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer experiences loss in his religious faith, questioning god and his quietness. Throughout the book, Eliezer's faith slowly diminishes as the years pass, wondering whether or not god will assist him in his times of need. Even the people who have the strongest faith, will question it in times of hardship

Do you think your faith and beliefs would change if you went through a traumatic event with no control over your needs or everything? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel his faith in god was very strong in the beginning he wanted to devote his life to it but as horrible events happen and reocor his faith slowly withers away. Elie Wiesel uses situations and feeling to determine your faith, hopes and dreams.

Elie Wiesel is a 14 Jewish boy living in hungary at the worst possible time for Jewish people. The time when Hitler ruled Germany, the Holocaust. In the book Night, Elie tells his story of how his family was moved from their home in Hungary, to the terrible ghettos, and then to prison camps. During this book there are many different times when its is shown how inhuman the holocaust was.

In this quote, Eliezer and his sisters were given the opportunity to go to a safe shelter, but turned it down and chose to stay with their parents. They chose to stay together as a family rather than escape the horrors of their unknown future. Eliezer and his sisters chose their family over their own safety. Family plays an important role in this book and this quote reinforces the strong family values that Eliezer has.

At times, Wiesel would refuse to take orders from the SS officers which resulted in physical abuse such as whipping, beating, and kicking. Eventually, the prisoners had to go on long, dreadful marches outside in icy, freezing temperatures. While on his march, Wiesel writes “I was dragging this emaciated body that was still such a weight” (Wiesel 85). Eliezer struggled to cope with torture throughout his stay at the concentration camp. Like many of the other prisoners, Elie was starved. He was nothing more than a skeleton-like figure. This major physical transformation in him will expose the Nazi officer’s harsh and brutal treatment towards the

Night Death, Sadness, and destruction fell upon Elie Wiesel a fifteen year old boy who was taken from his home in Transylvania and brought to a concentration camp where he would lose his mother youngest sister and father. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was affected by the events in the book because Elie lost his faith, wanted to end his life, and being in Auschwitz took a toll on his emotions. When Elie first arrives at the concentration camp the reader can see an immediate shift in how Elie feels and his faith. On the day of the Jewish new year, Elie says “Glory be to God” then says "Why should I bless his name?

Night Essay As said by Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, writer and Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, “Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.” Often times during the course of our busy lives, we forget how lucky we are to be living. When do we stop and think about those who have lost what we value most, life?

     Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle. Moshe is taken away and sees an entire train of people murdered by the Gestapo. He returns to Sighet and tries to warn them, but no one believes his story. The Nazis come and take over Sighet. Elie is moved to a ghetto, along with all the other Jews in Sighet. They soon are taken away in a train to Auschwitz.

The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.