Why Should We Learn In Night By Elie Wiesel

During the Holocaust they counted that 6 million Jews died.The Jews faced many difficulties, death being the main one. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he told his story of the difficulties he faced during the Holocaust. The Nazis were horrible to the Jews; they gave them little food, made them march many miles, worked them long hard hours, and when on the train they had little air. Because Elie Wiesel overcame his difficulties he faced during the Holocaust, I feel I can overcome my problems and live a wonderful life.

When responding to situations in life people must consider if doing so will benefit themselves or the people around them. In circumstances that demand quick thinking people often can not form a concrete decision based on how little information and time they have. In life people frequently must try to do so through their daily battles with the people around them as well as themselves.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author reflects on his own experience of being separated from his family and eventually his own religion. This separation was not by any means voluntary, they were forced apart during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jew when the invasion of Hungary occurred and the Germans ripped members of his religion away from their home in Sighet. A once peaceful community where Wiesel learned to love the Kabbalah was now home to only dust and lost memories. Most members of that Jewish community were never to return, hell greeted them with open arms as they walked through the now rusty gates of Auschwitz. In order to survive unimaginable circumstances that were enforced in these camps, a boy had to hang on to his humanity. But by no means did humanity stay with the boy, being subjected to the horror of concentration camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel saw first-hand how members of other communities attempt to silence opposing voices. All of the pain that Wiesel saw inspired him to keep watch and tell stories for people who wouldn’t live on to tell them for their own families. Stories are what keeps a person alive and through Eliezer’s words that he puts down many are able to get a sense of closure in knowing what occurred at these camps. One story occurred on the first train ride away from home, a lady named Madame Schächter was beaten up for crying out against imminent death, unseen by others.

In Night, memoirist Elie Wiesel shares his most personal memories of the Holocaust, which he experienced directly and during which he lost his family and many friends. On page eight, Wiesel accounts for the lack of initiative adults in his community took to protect themselves and their families against the Nazis. He states that they concerned themselves with “strategy, diplomacy, politics, and Zionism—but not with their own fate.” Elie Wiesel describes these distractions with resentment, and rightfully so. In Sighet, Wiesel shows many of the Jewish people downplaying the need to take action because they believe circumstances will improve. Wiesel believes that if the elders had taken precautions earlier on and prepared themselves, the tragedy

The Holocaust was the systematic killing and extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the German Nazi state between 1939 and 1945. Innocent Europeans were forced from their homes into concentration camps, executed violently, and used for medical experiments. The Nazis believed their acts against this innocent society were justified when hate was the motivating factor. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces societies to examine the responsibility and role of citizenship, in addition to approaching the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Holden Congressional Record). Despite the adverse treatment of the Jews, there are lessons that can be learned from the Holocaust: The Nazi’s rise to power could have been prevented, the act of genocide was influenced by hate, and the remembrance of the Holocaust is of the utmost importance for humanity.

The books Night, by Elie Wiesel, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne are two intriguing books by themselves. However, when you put them together you gain an improved perspective about the Holocaust. You also get see how people were affected by it, how they reacted to it, and what their opinions were about it. These two books contain many similarities and differences, but they go so well together.

It was in Auschwitz during 1944, at the time of arrival about midnight when the smell of burning flesh saturated the air. There was an unimaginable nightmare of a truck unloading small children and babies thrown into the flames. However, this is only one event in this entire tragedy of events to be remembered in order to understand how deeply literal and symbolic the book entitled Night by Elie Wiesel is. The novel brings light to the reader about what the Jews faced while in the fire, hell and night; nonetheless, the author portrays each and every day during this year as a night in hell of conflagration. "Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." (Wiesel 20). When Wiesel arrived at the camp he counted the longest dreadful ten steps of his life; he realized that his nightmare has just become unimaginable.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel about a young man 's’ journey through the holocaust and all of the adversities he faces and overcomes. It briefly talks about his life prior to he and his family being taken from their homes.The novel then tells us about the awful journey Eliezer, the main character, goes through while being a victim of the holocaust. The book is placed in a holocaust camp for the most part, but it starts off in Hungary which is where Eliezer and his family is from. The story is based in one main concentration camp and towards the end they are forced to go to another concentration camp. . The book talks about everything Eliezer experiences

The students who have educated themselves about the Holocaust understand that the Nazis were terrible and desecrated basic human rights and liberties. This allows them to become a better citizen with the interpretation that they serve humanity for the better. When learning about tragic topics like the Holocaust, they can make preconceptions between history and their own lives and moral choices. Students can also

Imagine you being stripped of all your dignity, hope, and freedom in one swoop. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night he has many problems he needs to overcome. His family splitting up and he stays with his father while his sisters go with their mother. His father and him getting split up when he changed barracks. Him hurting his foot and having to tread through the snow with his father. Then, his fathers death in the new camp. Wiesel’s main goal of this book is to show that if you don’t give up you can do anything you set your mind to.

Let me ask you this; How would you respond if you were thrown onto a cattle car, sent to a work at a concentration camp, for possible the rest of your life, and, in the process, have your family sent to their death? Don’t forget you face all this while being starved and forced to fight for your life. That seems like a completely ridiculous question, but for millions of Jews during World War II, it was the exact situation they experienced. Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, tells the story about the cruel treatment Jewish prisoners experienced and how that turned them into savages. As you will see, Elie himself will not be able to escape this fate, but I do believe he didn’t quite reach the same level as some of the others.

It has been said, “the bigger the challenge, the more your sacrifices will impact you.” This statement not only applies to people who face a small challenge, but to people who have been chased by death. In Elie Wiesel’s telling of the Holocaust in Night, the events that he witnessed have significantly changed him. He was sent to a concentration camp as a young teenager, and had to overcome many traumatic situations including: being tortured by the nazis, and watching his father get beat up multiple times. He doesn’t realize how much he has changed till the end of his stay at the concentration camps, but he became more mature and determined.

The Holocaust, a tragic event in history, years after years the future generations study about this genocide of people, yet we, the future generation are only taught about the people who were killed and save. But what about the people who did the saving, who did the right thing and risked their lives to save countless others? Without these courageous resistance efforts many more lives could have been lost.

One reason we study the Holocaust is for future reference. Six million Jewish men, women, and children all died because Hitler told his men to kill them. We teach people about this so we don't have someone else repeat it. Now that almost everyone knows about the Holocaust we won't have people that go along with any plan like that. It also teaches people that if they do try this they will be stopped and they will be killed or they will be in a lock down prison the rest of their life.

Being a bystander becomes part of the genocide’s motivation because the states or organization either aid the genocidal state or do nothing. Even if they don’t actively be part of the killing they still help without knowing like economic aid and trading.