The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity quotes Elie Wielsel’s, “Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and human sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place- at that moment- become the center of the universe.” Many people suffered and had to give up their lives during the holocaust. The days of horror and torture during this time is to be told by many different writers. Elie Wiesel, Corrie Ten Boom, and Anne Frank, three writers I chose, all wrote books about the holocaust to make it a little bit easier to understand the real life situations they had to go through while in hiding. If it wasn’t for them, people today wouldn’t know the pain and hardships people had to face at that time. The holocaust was a life changing event that shaped the world to how it now is today. Anne Frank was a Jewish/ German girl who was born in 1929 on June 12th. While in hiding, Anne kept a diary of her time spent in closed quarters trying to survive with seven other people. In the diary, she recorded her growth emotionally and all the stress that was put on her. After two years in hiding they were captured by the Nazis. While they were being captured, the diary was scattered on the floor. The Nazi’s took it and preserved it until the war was over. The pages of the diary were given to Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the only person to
A man named Elie Wiesel experienced it and survived. As it was a traumatic experience .Wiesel had been through a lot of starvation, and watched a lot of innocent people killed. Women and children got killed and burned alive by the Nazi s. That first night in the holocaust how he saw everything in Germany. How Wiesel couldn’t do anything about it because he was helpless. This had started in 1933 through 1945 it finally stopped there have been many texts inspired by the holocaust including “First they came for the communist “by Reverend Martin Niemoller and “Never shall I forget” by Elie Wiesel . The text gives a lot of sings on to speak out, also says a lot how we shouldn’t be quite in horrible situations a word can save lives.
“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.” -Wiesel. The Holocaust, the killing of ;Jews, homosexuals, other races, and prisoners of war had horrible conditions that people went through, and how much hatred one person could have. The Holocaust was the mass murder of more than 6 million Jews, the Nazis killed more 11 Million people. One thing that I learned is that Hitler thought the Jews were the ones who caused World War I. He thought that if he killed people who he thought caused World War I, there would be more money to go around Europe.
When people do not stand up to brutality, it creates a continuous cycle of maltreatment. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel is a Jewish teenager who is forced out of his home in Transylvania by the Nazi army and then sent to concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald with his father. There, he lives the most traumatic experiences of his life without a single word of protest. In the future, he realizes that staying silent allows these injustices to happen repeatedly. By publishing his memoir, Wiesel is breaking that silence and speaking out about his true feelings towards Hitler and the Nazis. An example of when Wiesel keeps silent is before his father passes away. The old, sickly man is beat by an officer and Wiesel does not interfere because
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Although many people have written about The Holocaust, Few have done so with the eloquence of Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust was the period between 1933 and 1945 when Nazi Germany persecuted and systematically million murderer of Jews and other innocent people. His works speak of the need for people to feel compassion for their fellow human beings. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small town in Romania who had been a sanctuary for Jews since they were driven south out of Ukraine in 1640. He was the third of four children and the only son born to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel Feig. Wiesel had three sisters, Hilda and Batya were younger than him and Tzipora was younger. Education is very important for the family. The region was an important part
Elie Wiesel experienced several horrors throughout the Holocaust. As a boy, he lost his family and his faith in his own religion because of the mass slaughter of six million Jews along with several different races and religions. Elie describes scenes that a fifteen year old child should never have to see such as frantic families lined up for a death in fire, bodies crushed all over as people ran them over, and babies being thrown into pits of fire.
The quote by Wiesel has a deep meaning that can impact what people have learned about the holocaust. The Jewish holocaust was a devastating event that affected a worldwide number of people then and now. It had come to a point during the holocaust where “fear was greater than hunger” (Wiesel 59) during those times. The words written by Wiesel is indicating that the fear of death and misfortune was far greater than hunger. When people hear the word holocaust they think of how tragic it is, but they do not know true essence of what the survivors had to go through. When discussing the holocaust we learn that the Jews were downsized to animals “faster, you filthy dogs” (Wiesel 85). Jew and non-Jews in the concentration camps began to lose a sense
Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The Jews were persecuted, tortured and slaughtered in concentration camps (“The Holocaust” 1). Night by Elie Wiesel is the powerful memoir of his experiences during the Holocaust. Night shows the tragedy of the Holocaust through the use literary devices, including the themes of loss of faith and cruelty toward other human beings, night as a symbol of suffering and fear, and the use of first person narrative. Night allows the reader to emotionally connect with the victims of the Holocaust, encourages them to never forget the injustice of the Holocaust, and implores the reader to ensure a travesty such as the Holocaust never occurs again.
Man loves to kill. In response to the question asked, man will continue to commit such atrocities as a genocide. Man will never learn from past mistakes or all of a sudden stop mass killings or genocides. Humans have always killed and they will continue to do it. Humans will not all of a sudden be pacifists and stop killing. This has happened with the Rwandan genocide and with the Holocaust in Night by Elie Wiesel. Man will not stop committing such atrocities and have a brighter future and these are only a few reasons why.
Dzungar, Holodomor, Rwandan, Cambodians, Armenians, Circassian, Ottoman Greek, and the Jewish. All too many genocides. When will it stop? When will we learn? When will we stop forgetting about the past and when will the history books end the patterns of war and death? When? The survivors share their stories, but do we listen? Elie Wiesel was a fifteen year old boy with the a life ahead of him, when his religion, following Judaism, made him a target in Adolf Hitler's extermination plans. He was only a boy. He had done nothing wrong, absolutely nothing, yet his life had been ended before it began. From Auschwitz to Birkenau to Buna to Gleiwitz and Gleiwitz to Buchenwald. Wiesel endured separation and starvation, to survive the brutality of the Jewish Holocaust that left millions of others dead. Individuals with lives, with hopes, with dreams, suffering with no end, and losing everything upon survival. Adults, children, elderly, everyone one of them innocent. As individuals living without these threats we cannot empathize for the horror stories we hear, since we have no personal connection, we can only sympathize for them. With no personal connection to the events, it is sure that we will forget Wiesel, but why do we forget? Because humans are imperfect beings? How do we stop erring and forget the mistakes that have preceded us? Humans struggle to understand that the mistakes of one individual do not define those similar to them. If human can attempt to
I believe Elie must have felt awkward and nostalgic when he returned to Sighet. Elie had been traumatized by the events of Auschwitz in a way that he would never be able to recover. He had taken time to heal in France for many years and try to make sense of what he had been through. Returning to a place where he had previously only had happy memories must have been strange, like coming home from a trip finding out your house has not changed at all, even though you might have. When Elie described throwing back a watch he buried I thought it was a perfect example of this. I believe he must have thrown it back because he remembered the person he was when he buried it and knew he wasn’t that person any more, so why should he keep it? I believe
Throughout time, Jewish communities have been treated with immense hate and exclusion from other cultures because no one accepted their religion. Coming to the time before WWII, events like Kristallnacht demonstrated the despise for Jews that dwelled inside the general population of Germany when the Germans went to Jewish houses and stores to burn and destroy them. In the course of WWII, they were harassed, abused, tortured and ruined, as all of their business stocks and assets were taken away. During the expanse of this horrific battle, Jews were forced to live in designated areas known as concentration camps where they had to overcome obstacles such as hunger, freezing temperatures, and the loss of precious family members. These camps were used to fulfill Hitler’s intent to annihilate the Jewish population from the face of the planet and this dangerous idea was called “purify the country”. In total, there were about 25 of these camps built where 6 million Jews died, including 1.5 million children. Auschwitz was a camp which was responsible for 1 million deaths alone, and this is the camp where Elie Wiesel was first sent to endure the hatred of the Nazis. This camp changed the way Elie Wiesel viewed the world because he saw and experienced things that will stayed with him forever. He was transformed into a new person who neglected his religion, failed to protect the one he held dear to him, and put his
Thesis Statement: The hardships that Elie Wiesel faced in the concentration camps lead him to lose faith, until after when realizing it was crucial to keep faith in God despite the horrendous events of the Holocaust.
It caused a lack of trust. It separated friends. It brought families closer. The Holocaust forced family members to hold on to each other and trust each other. “In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million [...] By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the ‘Final Solution,’ the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe” (Introduction to the Holocaust). Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel’s Night describes that father and son relationships, and loyalty changes through acts of inhumanity.
Storoies has been born during the Holocaust, Anne Frank's was one of them. She was a Jewish young teenage girl who lived in Amsterdam, Holland. When the Nazis occupyed Holland, she went into hinding with her family in 1942 when her sister, Margot was called up to a concentration camp. A few other Jews has joined them later on. After more than a year of hiding, they were discovered in 1944 and were seperated during transitions to camps. Anne and Margot stayed together but died in 1945 of typhus, only a few weeks before their camp was liberated. In fact, the whole Frank family didn't survive except for Otto Frank, Anne's father. Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam and later found out that Anne had kept a diary the whole time they were in hiding. The diary survived because of Meip, a guardian of the Secret Annex, she saved it for Anne after