The book night is about a boy experience with his father in Nazi German concentration camps and how his journey going there in 1944 to 1945. The book is a memoir. He began at his hometown of sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. He studied Talmud and Kabbalah. Moishe the beadle, is a poor foreigner Jew, who taught him a few about Kabbalah revelation and mysteries but it was short because one day all foreign Jews were expelled from sighet. Moishe somehow came back and told stories of what happened to him and the other passenger in the train but no one believe him. Eliezer’s town are forced into small ghettos around the sighet. Soon the Jews are ask to moved. So they went vehicle by vehicle. Supposedly trains, 80 people in each car so if one of them goes missing they …show more content…
They got separated from their other family member. They both pass the selection which is either death or work. Jewish arrival are stripped and any other possibility of cruelty. They march from Birkenau to main camp of Auschwitz. Then to Buna a work camp. Eliezer is put to work in an electrical fitting factory. In condition of slave laborer. Eliezer is forced to give his gold tooth using a rusty spoon. gestapo hanged small children and some rebels. In condition of cruelty, the prisoner began to turn to cruelty. Eliezer began to lose faith in God and others around him. After a month Eliezer undergoes an foot operation. While he is healing in the infirmary he heard that Russian are a dancing and will liberate the camp so the Nazis decided to evacuate to Gleiwitz concentration camp in the middle of a snowstorm. The old and sick stayed but Eliezer and his father March with the other prisoners. Then rides a train to Buchenwald. A deadly journey once again. 100 Jews boarded but only 12 survived. Eliezer and his father tried to support each other to survive but his father died of dysentery and physical abuse. Eliezer still trying to survive but
Meir Katz, a strong friend of theirs, rescues Elie. When the train arrives at Buchenwald, only twelve out of the hundred men who were in Elie's train car are still alive. Meir Katz is among the dead. The march to Buchenwald had fatally weakened Elie’s father.
The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about the dreadful Holocaust in which Wiesel survived. The Wiesel family consisted of Elie, his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and younger sister, Tzipora, and parents. The family lived in the town of Sighet, Transylvania before they were shipped off to war but were then relocated to a ghetto at the beginning of the Holocaust. Elie met Moshe the Beadle in 1941 when he was about thirteen years old. Moshe the Beadle was a shtibl who was transported to one of the camps before some of the other Jews and was shot and pretended to be dead so that he could escape and return home to warn the other Jews about such occurrences but they would not listen to him.
The book I read was Night written by Elie Wiesel this book takes place at Nazi concentration camps called Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel's main reason in writing Night was to show the world what he expierenced and to show what destruction mankind can do to each other. I also believe Wiesel wrote Night to prevent the horrific things that happened during the Holocaust to happen again. Another reason I think Wiesel wrote Night was to remember all the people that died at the hands of the Nazis so they can not be forgotten. When I first read Night my first thought was disbelief because I could not believe how much pain was inflicted on the Jews during the Holocaust and how Elie survived the Nazi concentration camps to
A kid of just about thirteen he adored mulling over the riddles of the Kabbalah with Moishe the Beadle. Elie tells how all the outside Jews, including Moishe the Beadle are taken from the town by German warriors. At the point when Moishe the Beadle comes back to the town he tells how he got away from the warriors that had slaughtered all the others. Elie then happens to tell how all the individuals in the town accept Moishe the Beadle had lost his mind.elie than portrays the day the German warriors entered his town and isolate everybody into little ghettos. A couple of days after the fact they are pressed into dairy cattle autos and sent to Auschwitz death camps and later to Buna.
He describes his parents as shopkeepers and that he has one younger and two older sisters. Eliezer describes his interest in the Jewish religion and how Moishe becomes his teacher of Jewish faith and mysticism. Then he describes the deportation of Moishe as a “foreign Jew” out of the village and his subsequent return where he tells of Jews being massacred and his own escape but is not believed by the villagers. He describes how the Jews in Eliezer’s hometown basically scoffed at Hitler’s public desire to exterminate Jews from Germany which hints at the denial that was alive and well at that time. Multiple reports of the atrocities that were befalling Jews were brought to the town but were not taken seriously and did not prompt them to flee.
Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters, but he remains with his father. They lie about their ages so that they can live. If you are too young or too old you are of no use at Auschwitz. Later they arrive at Auschwitz and they lie again to Dr. Mengele and Elie says he is a farmer, not a student. After, they move on to the pit.
Eliezer Changes for the Worse Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” This quote applies to Eliezer because everything that he experienced during the Holocaust seemed impossible. Elie Wiesel’s Night tells the story of a young boy named Eliezer who arrives at Auschwitz and goes through many tough challenges. Eliezer changed for the worse because he lost his faith, saw many horrifying things at a young age, and lost his whole family. Early on in Night, Eliezer lost his mother and his sister, Tzipora.
The world, hate, and religion. How the Holocaust brings this altogether. Like a child we trust and believe in what we are told. We are excited to learn more. In this book called Night Elie Wiesel was excited to learn more about his religion and the study of Kubbalah.
About twelve years and roughly eleven million deaths. The Holocaust. There are no words to describe it. It was full of death, brutality, pain, and torture. No one made it out unscarred.
Eliezer and his family are living in the town of Sighet (in Hungary). His family consisted of six people: his mother, father, his three sisters (Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora) and himself. He studies the Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism). His mentor on the Kabbalah was Moishe the Beadle since his father disapproved of him studying mysticism and wanted him to study the traditional Jewish texts and beliefs.
When humans are surrounded in an endless chasm of darkness, they find it necessary to grasp onto whatever dim hope may be near them. They find it necessary to set their minds onto a mission or action, however feasible or relevant, and turn all thoughts away from death or despair. Light and dark are words commonly thrown about, usually to describe gradients of color. But humans need light in the sense of comfort, a way out, or the promise of salvation. They have to find this light in life, to turn away from the darkness.
Eliezer has to learn how to adapt to not having as food as he used to, being beaten for no reason, and watching daily hangings. Eliezer specifically remembers one particular hanging of a young boy, a pipel, whose master has been gathered arms for the resistance. Eliezer said “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… ” Eliezer remembers how the child cried and remained alive for the next half an hour, before his body finally gives out and the child dies. Towards the end of the book, as the group that Eliezer and his father are in keeps running around Germany, and Eliezer has a choice to give up and die on the side of a road, but he continues to run because of his father. Eliezer says “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me.
Reflecting on the young boy who had just been hanged, Eliezer begins to appreciate the little details of life in the Buna concentration camp through self-deception. This deception is evident when he describes the soup as tasting delicious
No one knows where they are going and many are excited, except for Moishe. Moishe has learned of the horrors of the Nazis and what they are doing to the Jews. They are killing them in horrible ways, but no one wants to believe Moishe. This really lowers Moishe’s spirits because he knows that what happened to many other Jews will soon happen to all of his friends after they are relocated. Groups of Jews are moved out day by day and Eliezer is in the very last group.
Eliezer and his father rely on one another to survive through the Holocaust. Together they encounter the cruelty of the Nazis, the lack of compassion from the prisoners, as well as the difficulty of simply surviving. They remain strong together unlike other father-son relationships seen in the novel. A majority of the prisoners gravitate towards self preservation while Eliezer chooses to remain with his father. Eliezer does exhibit ambivalence in continuing to help his father because the conditions of the Holocaust continually make it harder to make others a priority than oneself.