Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

“If we held a minute of silence for everyone that lost their life in the Holocaust, we would be silent for eleven years” - Unkown. Elie Wiesel decided to write about his experiences during the Holocaust resulting in the book Night. Elie was one of 11 million people that were targeted. From 1933 to 1945 millions of Jewish people were dehumanized and treated like everything but a human being. After the Holocaust, it was discovered that 6 million Jews were killed. The Germans murdered them in many different, horrible ways. None of them being proper or respectful. As they were running, the guards shot them without thinking twice. “Near me, men were collapsing into the dirty snow. Gunshots.” (86). While running from Buna to Gleiwitz, the weak were shot and left for dead. They were often threatened as a group. Therfore if someone made one wrong move, they were all dead. “If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs” (24). On their way to the first camp, Birkenou, they were shoved into small cattle cars. The guards compared them to dogs. They threatened to kill them in a way they would a wild animal.

And the ways they were transported to those different camps were cruel and insensitive. When they shipped the Jewish prisoners from camp to camp, they didn’t care about their health conditions. “The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one” (22). This was their first of many ways they were transported. They shoved 80 people in a cattle car with only a couple buckets of water, and a few loaves up bread. The Germans didn’t let them stop working or moving. Even if they were on the verge of death. ‘“Faster you filthy dogs.” We were no longer marching, we were running”. The second way they were transported was running. They didn’t stop from Buna to Gleiwitz. They didn’t stop running for more than 15 miles. And those who did were