Night Elie Wiesel Summary

When the Russians were close to Buna the Germans rounded up all the prisoners they could and evacuated the camp. Elie was in the infirmary due to an infection on his foot, but all he could think about was staying close to his father. They had already suffered and endured so much that it was not the time to be separated. After many days of running, marching, and a long train ride under horrendous weather they reached Buchenwald. By then Elie’s father was already sick and weak. The sirens began to wail and they were chased into the blocks. At this point, sleep was all that mattered to Elie, not his father.

Throughout Night, the bond that Eliezer has with his father Chlomo passes through a rocky course, but eventually becomes stronger due to the isolation and ultimately the death of Chlomo. This rocky course has events that that go from being inseparable in Birkenau, to feeling as though he is a burden. In between, there are times where Elizer’s relationship is clearly falling apart and then being fixed. The camps greatly influence the father-son relationship that Elie and Chlomo have, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for worse. Originally in 1941 when the Wiesel family was living in Sighet, Eliezer took Chlomo for granted, as any child would. Little did he know that their relationship would permanently change forever.

the horrific events in the concentration camp and the ever-present risk of death does Eliezer

The train arrived to Auschwitz. In the middle of the night. ¨Men to the left! Women to the right” (Wiesel 29)! The SS officers shouted as they forced the Jews off the train. At this time Elie lost his mother and his three sisters. Little did they know that they were going into the gas chamber to die. The women and old people were not useful in the camps. The concentration camp was about 25 square miles. An inmate spotted Elie and told him that his age was eighteen not fifteen. He also told his dad that he was not fifty but that he was forty. The SS shouted for them to move. They ended up in the barracks. The inmates that awaited them in there ordered the new Jews to ¨Strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold on only to your belt and your shoes¨ (35). They then were ordered to run to the barber. There they got all of their hair buzzed off. They then were soaked in disinfectant

Elie first recalls Dr. Mengele’s “eight short, simple words” (Wiesel 27) when he enters the camps: “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 27) In this part of the book, Elie and his father are separated by his mother and sisters. This metaphorically kills Elie because he is very attached to his family as are they to him. A piece of Elie has been taken away from him forever. Later in his memoir, he mentions the cruel hanging of the Pipel. Previous hangings that day did not phase Elie, but when the young, angelic Pipel was hanged, Elie said his once flavorful soup “tasted of corpses.” A man near Elie was saying “Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows…”(Wiesel 62) This is a powerful quote that shows how Elie has also began to question his faith. This brings about the mindset of the death of God in Elie. Elie begins to show distrust and rebellion in his God. This is a sharp contrast to Elie’s former beliefs. When Elie’s father dies, Elie emotionally shuts his mind off. He says “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore.” He had finally given up. His father was his rock tied to the balloon, his reason to keep going. Without his father, Elie gave up and became zombified like the rest of the broken souls. Elie fully turned into the emotionless man that he was set to become as a result of surviving

They were being taken to Auschwitz and they were separated when they got there. Eliezer and his father were told to go to the left, which meant forced labor. His mother, Hilda and Beatrice and Tzipora were selected to go to the right which meant the gas chamber. Hilda and Beatrice managed to survive.

He was told he was 18 and his father was 40 (Weisel, 48). I thought that it would be better to be younger and older because they would do less work. Then again, doing lots of work probably made you more valuable and therefore, less likely to be killed. They were separated into 2 groups but Elie and his father were together. Someone told them they were headed for the crematorium. He told his father that if they were going to die, he wouldn’t want to wait and that he’d rather just run into the electric fence (Weisel, 51) I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like to be walking to what, to your knowledge, was death. Many Jews were reciting the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. As they neared the crematorium, they turned left and were headed to the barracks. Just reading that, I could feel a big relief. But imagine actually being there. In the barrack, they were told to strip. After that, their heads were shaved. Following that, they were free to wander the crowd. The next day, the men were ordered to run to a new barrack. By the door, their was a barrel filling with a disinfectant that they all had to soak in. It is kind of unclear to me why they have to disinfect. If they are living with their own waste with little cleanliness, why does it matter if they are disinfected in the first place? This was followed by a hot shower and more running to another barrack. Everybody was thrown

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.

Elie witnesses his fellow Jews get executed because they have not followed the Nazi rules. When Elie notices a black gallows, then was told the soup would given after roll call, he noticed three Jews in the gallows. After this happened the little kid has

As their time in the concentration camp continues, the conditions there worsen. The prisoners are soon forced into a treacherous forty-two mile run in the icy cold, which makes them struggle between life the death. During this march, one thing keeps Wiesel’s will to live alive and that is his father. This shows one of Wiesel’s weakest moments, where he contemplates giving up numerous times. Exhaustion takes over his body, and the only thing he can think about is the pleasures that death would bring him. Wiesel’s mind overpowers him and he reflects, “Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled. It stuck to me. I felt that I could touch it. The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me” (82). However, his father needs him, and that is truly what drives him to keep pushing until the end. They stay alive for each other, which shows how much they really care about the other. While Wiesel rests in the shed after the run, Rabbi Eliahou, a very well-liked man, comes in looking for his son. He and his son have been sticking together for three years. Wiesel expresses that he has not seen him, without realizing that this is false. The Rabbi’s son purposely left him, to strengthen his own chances of survival. Wiesel is taken aback by this, and astonishingly begins to pray. He thinks, “My God,

Elie’s faith in his Lord and his instinctive love for humanity are put to their final tests as the novel approaches its climax and conclusion. After witnessing the malicious, brutal hanging of an innocent child, Elie comes to the

Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust and an author, was put in Auschwitz with his family which consisted of his father, Shlomo Wiesel, his mom,Sarah feig, and his little sister,Tzipora wiesel.Adolf Hitler was behind the concentration camps and world war two, he was the leader of the SS officers and the germans. He was put in the camp in 1944 and was liberated by the russians in April 11th,1945.The book Night shows how the SS officers broke the jews and installed fear and hopelessness in them. “Night” also shows how Elie was dehumanized from a young and religious jewish boy to a blank, walking corpse by the end of the liberation. We ,as readers , see these acts of dehumanization throughout the book many times, but these three are the main

One of the decisions Elie had to make was when an inmate was yelling at Elie asking how old he was. The inmate was telling Elie and his father to lie about their ages to the officers so that they would not be killed. Elie, 15 and Shlomo, 50 had to lie about their ages by saying they were 18 and 40 so that they would be able to stay in the camps and not be sent to the crematorium. Elie had to make a fast decision that would be life or death and they chose the right thing to do by listening to the inmate. For all we know, the inmate could’ve been setting them up! Was that a wise choice for them to do? Next, we have the Escape.

They are given black coffee for breakfast, and they converse. At noon, they are brought a plate of thick soup. They take a nap in the shade of the block. They are waken and given identification numbers. Elie’s is A-7713. There was a roll call that evening. Eight days pass by and Elie and his father meet Elie’s cousin-in-law. They are transferred to another camp.

Elie Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis came for the 15,000 Jews of his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in May 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his mother and sister were murdered within hours, while he was put to work as a slave laborer. Eight months later, the Germans evacuated the camp and forced the survivors on a death march that ended at Buchenwald. Wiesel was one of the few still alive when the Americans arrived in April 1945.