Nuit et Brouillard – Presentation
Background.
- commissioned by a specialist government commission that dealt with assembling documentary material on the period of the French occupation, and an association devoted to the memory of those deported to camps
- In 1954 there was an exhibition on the camps in Paris, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Liberation. The extent of the horror was still relatively unknown
- Film coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Liberation and the exhibition
- Alain Resnais, at the time a young film director, was approached by the official Committee for the History of World War Two which itself was a representation of Resistance members. He turned down the offer initially because he felt that only someone who had had direct experience of the concentration camps could deal with the subject matter. He agreed to make the film with the collaboration of French poet Jean Cayrol who had been a concentration camp prisoner to write
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The only time a specific reference to Jews is made is the mentioning of the Jewish student from Amsterdam.
- Israeli view –it was seen more as a philosophical discussion rather than a presentation of the victims. No sense of personal sympathising (Nb Elie Wiesel, Night and Fog) – this could be to do with the historicising nature of the film and the medium itself. Night and Fog and Night both contribute to the commemoration and memory of the Holocaust.
- Elie Wiesel also stresses the importance of relating what happened for its important place in our collective memory. He writes:
- “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second
The novel ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel and the film ‘Schindlers List’ directed by Steven Spielberg, are both based in World War 2 and more specifically the holocaust and the attempted cleanse of the Jewish race. These two texts both heavily demonstrate the horrors and brutalities that the Jewish people had faced during the holocaust. The two depictions of these events have many similarities although one being word and the other being film, however they differ in perspective, Schindlers List showing an outside look at the events where Night is a first person experience. The two representations of the holocaust, although are opposites of perspective both do not shy away from showing the brutalities and the wickedness that took
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night he compares two experiences of hanging through which the end result had been vastly different. The first hanging that he saw was of solely just a man and they were given soup afterwards; they were very hungry, their stomachs empty so once given that soup it had tasted as if he just won the lottery. Yes it was tragic but they had by then probably witnessed a lot of the hardships brought upon them by the Nazis’, so for them they only wanted soup. The second time was different, it was dark, inhumane, terribly horrifying. This time it was of three, two of which were adults; but that last one... that last one was a boy.
In the memoir, Night, Elie’s description about his arrival and selection in Auschwitz relates to the survivors in the videos because they all mentioned how as soon as they exited the train they were immediately separated from their families. In the very beginning Elie was separated from his mother and sister and he didn’t know it would be the last time he would ever see them. “Men to the left! Women to the right”(Wiesel 28). Just those eight words changed Elie’s life forever.
Alfred Münzer was born on November 23rd, 1941 in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In the summer of 1942, when he was a year old, his father received summons for work duty, which entailed going to a camp. In response to this Alfred's family decided it would be best for the family to separate and hide, as it would give their children a chance to survive even if they were to be found. Alfred’s parents found refuge in a psychiatric hospital, his father as a patient, and his mother as a nurse, where, on December 31st, 1942, New Year’s Eve, all 250 hiding patients were arrested by the Nazis. Alfred’s sisters would follow suit after being shifted through multiple homes, and would consequently perish after being given up to the Nazis.
Throughout times of conflict, people overlook their self-identity and lose all forms of humanity, often shown through the deprivation of empathy, mercy, and kindness. Namely, these losses frequently occur through both the oppressor and the oppressed. Night, by Elie Wiesel, takes place in the 1940s during the Second World War in Nazi Germany. In the novel, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the great deal of agony he went through during the Holocaust, and his survivor’s guilt, as an ironic and unfortunate Holocaust survivor.
Has society ever wondered how bad the Holocaust really was, if so read the book Night it's a first person encounter of the tragedy that was the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a man that was sent to Auschwitz because he's Jewish. While Elie Wiesel was in Auschwitz some of the things he saw were completely awful, for example one of the kids he saw was about to be hung but when the bottom of the gallow fell the boy's neck didn't snap and he sat there squirming, suffocating, the boy sat there for an hour or two. Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Auschwitz, and a winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, Night is about Elie's hardships while in Auschwitz, it illustrates all the horrific things he saw, also while he was there in Auschwitz his father was also
In Night, Elie Wiesel accounts the past horrors of his life going through the concentration camps during World War II. Elie Wiesel and his father are separated from his mother and sisters at the camp in Birkenau. From then on they see unspeakable horrors, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children.
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing,” said Eva Burrows. Jews were known for their traditions, they celebrate Passover Seder, a family gathering to eat a meal of bread and wine. However, these traditions were broken with the tragic Holocaust as many Jews were being separated from their family and being killed, but that did not stop them from the belief if they kept going they would be reunited with family. Furthermore, Elie Wiesel uses Fire and Night in the motif in the memoir Night to convey an underlying message about the need to have your family together in order to be emotionally alive.
Elie Wiesel’s touching memoir, Night, shares intimate details about the cruelty of World War Two concentration camps and the horrors that occurred within them. Concentration camps were spread throughout Germany and Poland from 1933-1945 as the result of strong anti-Semitic views radiating from the President and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shares of the time that he and his father endured being held captive in several concentration camps, and the battle to escape death, day after day. In the memoir, the significance of night was used throughout the piece to draw connections and emotions from the reader. In Night, night was used both literally and symbolically to portray the unknown, pain, and the end of a journey.
Luba Frederick, a Holocaust Survivor, had said that during the holocaust “to die was easy”. Luba had said this because people were either murdered, wanted to die peacefully, or wanted to end their suffering during this time. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, there are many accounts in which people lied down on the ground, gave up, and died. For example, as stated, “He dragged me toward a pile of snow from which protruded human shapes, torn blankets,” (Wiesel 105).This clearly exemplifies that people were tired, completely gave up hope, and felt no reason for living, therefore lying down in the snow and dying. They also may have thought it easier to die in peace, on their own will, than to die in the hands of the Nazi’s.
Within the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the author writes about his experience through the holocaust. The entire novel Elie’s goal was consistent, he wanted to stay untied with his father at all times. In the beginning of the novel Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sister. The author came to the realization that he would never meet his mother or sister again, so he decided that he would always be by his fathers side.
ARC 1, IN WHICH: A cute punk-rock vampire and a disabled firefighter-turned-mall-cop with a dark past join forces to battle the forces of evil. Jude used to leap out of helicopters to rescue/protect people from terrifying infernos. Now, by day, he protects the local mall from rowdy teenagers who ride their skateboards inside. By night, he protects the the parking lot, and the rest of Portland, from undead, bloodsucking creatures of the darkness. Or would if he could find them.
Some shows and movies on Netflix have a label in a corner that censors them from the content they have. Those in charge often censor material that they think is objectionable because of the images or information they provide people with. The GISD school board has been considering censoring the book Night by Elie Weisel. Night is a nonfiction novel by Elie Weisel that depicts the author’s own experiences while being placed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust in WWII. The school board believes in censoring and banning the book Night by Elie Wiesel because of violence and the explicit events, however, if the GISD school board bans the book it will take away from students learning on past events and the consequences of those events.
Over 70 years ago, one of the most appalling occurrences in history arose, the holocaust. The holocaust was the mass murdering of many Jews, gypsies, Slavs, and dissenters during World War II. In elaboration, the genocide was implemented by former German dictator Adolf Hitler, who devised a plan in order to create a superior race and boost nationalism in his country. While his intentions seemed to have been a potential solution to revitalize the German nation, they emerged an infamy instead, resulting in the deaths of approximately six million Jews. Through his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel depicts the horrors of the holocaust.
The Holocaust was a horrible event in history that will scar humanity forever. With the events of the Holocaust being experienced by millions there are many different perspectives of said events. One such perspective is presented in Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his experiences as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Another perspective is presented in Schindler’s List, a film directed by Steven Spielberg (based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally) about Oskar Schindler, a gentile who saves over one thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Both pieces show heart wrenching stories of the abuse of a group of people in different ways, each using different mediums to convey their points.