Night Research Paper

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.

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

Relationships Displayed in Night The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, illuminates the relationship between Elie and his father. Specifically, the relationship is explained while the father and the son navigate the atrocities of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Elie and her father have an ever-changing relationship dynamic. The ever-changing dynamic refers to how the relationship remains in a continual state of flux, the connection between Elie and Mr. Wiesel strengthening or weakening with each adversity faced.

Johnny Liu Ms. Theobald World Literature Honors 1 March 2024 Themes in Night and in Survivor Stories Every person carries a story within them, shaped by their experiences and actions. While some stories are full of success and positivity, others are marked by trauma and hardship. During the Holocaust, there were many instances of negative experiences. One such example of this is the traumatic story of Eliezer in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is an intense book about the Holocaust. It goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, showing the strength of people even during the darkest times. It’s a book that can really make you think about how people can stay strong, even when things get really tough. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of survival shows how people had determination and resilience during the Holocaust. To begin with, Night by Elie Wiesel specifically shows how people in the Holocaust show determination in order to survive.

To many people, the Holocaust was one of the worst times in history. It all started with the plan from Germany’s dictator to try and wipe out the entire Jewish religion. Adolf Hitler set out to kill all the Jews, and he used concentration camps and dirty ghettos to get the job done. [Holocaust Background] Many people turned to writing to help get them through the hell on earth that they were living in. Using all of these writings, people were able to learn about what life was during the Holocaust.

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.

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

Holocaust survivors also suffered from depression. Though depression is a serious problem, it can be cured over a matter of time. The reason one suffers from depression vary from individual to individual. Unlike mood swings and temporary feelings, depression is constant. It is a constant struggle with emotions. This illness causes interference with one’s ability to perform everyday task, it jumbles a persons’ thoughts, behaviors and their overall attitude. Survivors had experienced a lot of loss during this time in their lives. They experienced loss of their families and friends. These losses take a toll on people’s mental stability. Survivors felt this loss when they were freed because they had memories of the family members and friends they had lost along the way. When they were taken to the camps they were stripped of their clothes, their jewelry and their homes.

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).

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

and no one to trust but each other formed a nation where they could be

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.

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.

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.