Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust that occurred during WWII. After surviving, he wrote the book Night describing what he went through. Elie and his family get removed from their home and transported to concentration camps. He describes this thoughts and feelings as he goes through these events. Elie survived the holocaust all based on chance. Elie and his father were separated from the rest of the family as soon as they arrived at the camps. They approached an SS officer, his “baton was moving constantly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left” (31). Elie was pointed to the left worried to see where it would destine his father. Elie’s father was all he had left. The baton waved his father to the left lifting a weight from
Elie Wiesel was a writer known for his memoir Night, in which he recounted his experiences for surviving the Holocaust. He was born on September 30, 1928 in Romania. During his early life, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was sent to the Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel and his father were forced to work under inhumane conditions in Buna Werke labor camp. Then, they were forced to march to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten.
English Name: Talya Edgerley You will view two websites to gain background information for our novel study of Night, by Elie Wiesel. Each website contains both visual and written descriptions of life in the concentration camps run by Hitler’s Nazi soldiers (sometimes referred to as the SS) during the Holocaust. Go to www.historyplace.com/specials/slideshows/auschwitz (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. A. Click Slideshow (far left).
In the book Night, the author describes his life being a prisoner for the Nazis. In this book, we are described with how Eli survived and what he and his father went through. We learn about how the prisoners were treated in the concentration camps. In the next two paragraphs, I will be sharing my opinion on what I think are the two most terrifying experiences the author, Eli, had to endure.
Eliezer is the main character throughout the story ‘Night’. The story follows him and his father as their Jewish ideology is tested. Throughout the story Eliezer's is dealing with the fact that even with faith and a celestial being, man can do appalling things to fellow man. Eliezer's faith is tested in many drastic scenarios throughout the shocking events. We are introduced to a young boy by the name of Eliezer early in the story.
The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events to ever happen during the duration human existence A.D. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, one reads about a young Jewish boy living in the village of Sighet, Romania. In the process, one gains only a small bit of insight into the horrors that The Holocaust was to its victims. Although one reads about the very explicitly and detailed writings of the camps and the deportation, it's only reading words on a page. It’s impossible to know the pain and suffering that these people went through because of all the terror tactics used by the Nazi party, as well as the abysmal atmosphere that was present at the camps.
After facing a few years of trials and tribulations, Elie Wiesel was able to survive those hard times and live to speak about it in Night; his autobiography, which described his life over a time of nearly two years in concentration camps and life on his very own hell on earth. Night goes into depth about Elie’s experience in the concentration camps; Auschwitz and Buna where not only does he lose his family, but figuratively himself, God, and hope for humanity. Miraculously, Elie survived the persecution and genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust, but sadly his conscious and faith did not. Elie had to witness and faced obstacles that were never meant or suitable for a boy his age and that drastically changed his mindset and outlook on life.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel remains a constant reminder of the horrors that happened to him and many others during the Holocaust in 1930’s through the 1940’s. The Holocaust was a tragedy that resulted in millions of Jews being murdered. One of these unlucky people who experienced this was Elie Wiesel. While in the camps, he experienced beatings and defeat daily. The torture he endured changed both his relationships with close family and friends and his faith.
In class we read the nonfiction book, Night by Elie Wiesel. It is a story about Elie, as a young teen, being a victim of the Holocaust and the gruesome situations he been in. In the book Elie says, “The world is not interested in us” (Wiesel 33). I believe that this statement is true. The world did not do anything to save the Jewish people and just observed them being treated like objects.
Just imagine that you lost everything in just one night. You had to give everything up, leaving all your belongings behind and even your house. Who knows for how many years when all of them will be back, if some of them do back it. Maybe one day they would be reunited with all their family ,their house and all your belongings. In the book Night, the main character is Elie Wiesel and in Between Shades of Gray the main character is Lina.
In the book Night Eliezer came face to face to some of his greatest fears, separating with his family, didn’t know where they were going but all at once he felt changed. He didn’t feel like God was with him, he felt as if he vanished. They go to many concentration camps and work many hours, go through tons of selections, train trip, and running miles a day. Your time at the camp is either life or death swaying back and forth. “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul that turned my dreams to ashes.”
Night is a book that is based off the true story of Elie Wiesel living his life through the holocaust. The book is written in first person as Elie lives through the horror of World War ll. Elie was only twelve years old when World War ll and the holocaust started. Elie and his family lived in a small house in the town of Sighet, Romania. He was a very smart kid and was engaged in Jewish mysticism.
Tristah Andrews The sound of a gunshot is often accompanied by deathly screams and cries---or just quiet prayers in the night. In Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, it tells of his experiences and trials in the concentration camps. The book is the story of Eliezer as a younger boy who was taken to a concentration camp and then separated from his younger sister and mother. He is only left with his father, and Eliezer would do anything to keep it that way. His time in the concentration camp is one that would try anyone's sanity, let alone strength.
Auschwitz: German Nazis made over 40,000 concentration camps between the years of 1933 and 1945 concentration camps were just like prisons. The “ prisoners “ were kept in extremely jarring ways. Auschwitz is one of the biggest concentration camps located in Southern Poland. Auschwitz is one of the biggest camps because it consist of three other camps into one like an assembly line. The three camps were a prison camp, a exterminated camp and a slave labor camp.
Elie Wiesel is the author of Night, a book written through the point of view of a teenage boy living in the time of the holocaust. Experiencing things like separating from family, seeing people dying daily, and starvation. He is sometimes looked at as blessed for making it out of the holocaust alive, he did not do it without many hardships.
“As for me, I was thinking not about death, but about not wanting to be separated from my father” Elie’s Father was really important to him because it was the last of family Elie had left. Elie did not want to remain alone in the Concentration Camps, for his father was his motivation to stay alive. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about a kid who goes through the Holocaust at a young age, the author Is that boy, Elie was around 14 years old when the Germans took him and his home town (All jews) to Concentration camps. Elie’s Mother and his little sister were taken away and were separated, Elie was left together with his Father in the Concentration Camps.