In the autobiography, Night, the prisoners obtained resilience from their family, hope, and will to live. Resilience is the ability to recover after something bad happens. Firstly, the protagonist Eli, obtained his resilience from the idea that he and his father would survive together. The novel, states, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road… My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me” (Wiesel 86). Eli wanted to give up badly so the pain can stop, but his dad stopped him. The idea that he and his dad would be together
People that survived the Holocaust were optimistic and/or hid but today most are guilty. They have guilt in them because they survived while others were dying amongst them.Surviving World War II meant freedom but many did not get to that point, unfortunately. They were brutally murdered or died either from working too much , starvation, and/ or diseases that spread like wildfire. Unbelievably, smells from the gas chambers, where victims were poisoned with gasses, are still present at concentration camps locations . Many survivors have never been able to get over this horrific event that took place because of the terrifying memories from the camps. Memories of how ruthlessly people were being killed, disgusting food, and the hard work, haunt
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.
Only about 3,546,211 people survived the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was the main leader of the Holocaust, he did this because of his discrimination of Jews. There were more than just Jews killed, there were gay people, priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters. The Holocaust happened between 1933 through 1945 in Germany and Poland. Night, is an autobiography written by Elie Wisel who was involved in the Holocaust. Auschwitz Death Camp, it is a video documentary of the death camp including Elie Wisel and Oprah Winfrey. The truth about the Holocaust to me is horrendous, all the torturing they had to go through
After going through an event as traumatic as the Holocaust, I do not know how anyone could be the same. Viktor Frankl said that Holocaust survivors suffered “moral deformity” and “apathy”, meaning that they no longer had the same thought process as most people have and suffered from a lack of concern and enthusiasm. Even for Elie, the main character in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, began doing things he would have never thought and was not as empathetic after his experiences. I think it is safe to say that all survivors of the Holocaust went on to live their lives with a different mindset that others due to the horrible conditions they lived in.
The Holocaust was a traumatic event that changed everyone that survived. The psychological effects that survivors
Many people believed that the Jews would never survive the concentration camps. However, the Jews managed to stay alive physically and spiritually by working with all the strength they could muster, making the best with the rations they were given, believing in family’s promises, and having faith that they would be free once again. Therefore, people should always stay strong even when it seems like all hope is lost.
Many Jews who survived the Holocaust were forced to change. From the beatings, starvation, and other physical and emotional tortures, the survivors would never be the same. Survivors of the Holocaust tell their stories so we all remember that what Hitler did to the Jews was unforgivable and should never be repeated.
and no one to trust but each other formed a nation where they could be
The book Night is about the author, Elie Wiesel, and his cold and dark experience at the many Nazi camps during World War Two. He captures what happened to him by making you feel like you were there while it was all going on. He puts so much emotion and heart into the book that you feel for all the people who had died. He put many different themes in his book as well. Three themes he mentioned were fear, humiliation, and loss.
People can often be stronger than what they think they are when faced with harsh, bestial, and generally unpleasant conditions. Many of the people who have endured the Holocaust, or passed trying, have tolerated the absolute maximum amount of torture mentally, physically, and spiritually as well. While it may be impossible to think that people of this time could survive the savage conditions of the Holocaust, some may actually possess the willpower to push through. One would like to open with this quote from the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, “We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything- death, fatigue, our natural needs” (Wiesel 87).
With more people passed than survivors of the Holocaust, we rely on the survivors to give us insight on what the Holocaust was actually like. In the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, thousands of people learn true facts about what the torture and the pain was actually like for the ones who were unfortunate to suffer from this event in History. Elie gives specific and horrific examples of what he suffered and saw while he was at camp. Elie’s goal is to teach others the importance of human lives and why no human is replaceable and anyone is capable of doing anything. This book is highly recommended by myself, and many others such as: book reviewers, other authors, teachers, and students.
The theme of indifference is present in Elie Wiesel’s Night, as well as in the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Both the book and the movie are about the Holocaust, a horrific event in which the genocide of the Jewish people was carried out. Night is a memoir that focuses on the life of a Jewish boy, Elie Wiesel, who is deported from his home to a concentration camp. He is separated from his mother and sisters and endures many hardships with his father, as they move from camp to camp. The movie, on the other hand, focuses on the life of a German boy who has a father high up in the ranks of the Nazi party. As a result, he lives near a concentration camp. He makes friends with a Jewish boy in the camps, but gets into the camp and unwillingly dies. These two sources have
The Holocaust was the genocide of about six million Jews caused by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime during World War II. Many who survived this period have shared their stories with others. It is important for Holocaust survivors to document their experiences because it is a large part of history, younger generations should know about the past, and remembering the Holocaust can prevent something similar from happening today.
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.