“The greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference.”-Elie Wiesel. Eliezer Wiesel. A Romanian-born, American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel published the book “Night” which was a non-fiction book that told about his experience through the Holocaust. His work won him the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Osla on December 10, 1986. On April 12, 1999; Elie gives his famous speech “The Perils of Indifference”. All of these have a sense of three categories: Ethos (Morals), Pathos (Emotion), and Logos (Logic). In Eliezer Wiesel’s book “Night” it shows evidence of Ethos and mentions many times throughout the book that there is a sense of humanity that is taken …show more content…
In his book there is a plethora of emotional moments, whether it’s the loss of perception of there being any hope of freedom or hope of any existing humanity or even the slight possibility of surviving such a horrific event. In the beginning of the book there was hope of a happy life with his family, and when you look back at that after the end, you realize the Elie has truly lost it all; his family, his humanity, his faith. Their lives were full of darkness. For instance, “The days were like nights, and the days left the dregs of their darkness in our souls.” (Night, pg.67) or the chapter of Julik’s death, when he played Beethoven on the violin to the dying Jews. There was no way that he could ever forget that moment, Wiesel even states, “I shall never forget Julik. How could I forget that concert, given to an audience of dying and dead men.” (Night, pg.63). Although, he’s lost all of that it doesn’t mean that he can’t find it again. His mother and sister died inside of a gas chamber in Auschwitz, his father died inside the encampment from exhaustion and then a man came and took him the the crematorium and burned him, whether dead or alive. Eventually, though he was forced to endure the torment he would find himself and his faith again, he even created a family of his own. When they were in the encampments, they were given barely any food and clothes including during the winter, which is so heartbreaking because it’s already …show more content…
He was only 15, he had endured so much loss and pain in one year, between trying to survive and dealing with the deaths of so many people that he knew and loved, even watching some of them enter their demise. Wiesel mentions near the end of the book that he feels that if he didn’t have to live with the burden of his father and just allowed him to die that maybe he will be more likely to survive. He knows as a fact that it’s true but he still has a part of him the holds back on giving up on him that shows that there is a hope of morality and humanity inside his heart. In May, 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz where he would be separated by his mother and sisters, his father became the only thing he had left. After months of enslavement him and his father are transferred to Buchenwald in January, where his father fell sick and passed away from dehydration and exhaustion as well as a possible fatal wound to the head that led him to bleed out. After his father's death, he is liberated by U.S. forces before his probable execution. Elie Wiesel was then sent to France where he spent his time recovering from intestinal issues that he almost died from. Decades later, he decided to write and publish his story. In his speech he exposes the use of indifference the Germans had used upon Jewish inmates, how they were treated like monsters and abused like them. They spent what felt to them like an
The concentration camp is in Poland. He was starved and badly treated.” Elie was sent to the camp and was starved. He was treated poorly and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to camp by the Nazis. At a young age Wiesel was sent to camp; he had to
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.
Elie Wiesel had an interesting story, he felt the need to tell. At the age of 15, was sent to a concentration camp. Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, with his father where they were forced to work under deplorable, inhumane conditions. They were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust.
1. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor, and an author who supports human rights and peace. Wiesel wrote a novel called Night, which is based off his personal experience in the Holocaust. He was born in 1928, in Romania, and died at the age of eighty-seven. When the Holocaust happened, Wiesel was twelve, and lived with his parents and two sisters.
In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the author’s motivating emotion to write this story could have been empathy. Throughout most of the novel, Wiesel tries to emphasize certain events and moments he experienced during the difficult time of the Holocaust in order to inform the general public about the events of the Holocaust and the history of it. In addition, in an interview with the Paris Review Wiesel talks about his feelings and his purpose for writing this novel. “I didn’t want to write a book on the Holocaust. To write such a book, to be responsible for such experiences, for such words - I didn’t want that” Wiesel tells Paris Review interviewer John S. Friedman.
He was disgusted when the nazis were burning the bodies in the crematorium. He had admiration to people who stood up for another person. After the Nazis invaded, these emotions started to disappear. Elie became more apathetic and despondent to events happening around him. The longer he was at the concentration camp the less emotion he felt.
Who is Elie Wiesel ? Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor. He struggled during the holocaust, but he managed to fight threw. He survived during this horrible time period where everyone kept silent. Many times he thought to himself that he was not going to survive the days would get worse for him.
Families are torn apart left and right during the Holocaust, and Wiesel will not to let that happen to him and his father. As he loses faith in his religion and humanity, he still has faith in family. Nothing matters to Elie in the camps, “I was not thinking about death, but I did not want to be separated from my father”(Wiesel 78). Wiesel only cares about his father. Even while faced with the difficult decision of remaining in the hospital or leaving with the camp, Wiesel’s main concern is his father.
Lets begin with how Elie was forced by the Nazis to go to Auschwitz at the age of only 15 years old. The Auschwitz concentration camp is located in Poland, where they didn't even think about feeding him, and treated him harshly. Both of Elie’s parents and a younger sister passed away in the Holocaust because they were getting treated like dolls. It was the most horrific time in time for the Jews. Elie Wiesel is very lucky that he lived through the Holocaust for us we have proof and information about what they did to Jews and for Elie, he spared his life and lived through it telling the world what happened to him.
“During World War II, Wiesel with his family and other Jews from the area, wore deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished” (Elie Wiesel-Biographical). “Wiesel and his family were sent to Auschwitz in Poland where millions of Jews died. He and his father were both sent to a camp, separated from the whole family. Elie did not give up even when things were getting rough, but sadly his parents and his younger sister died” (“Elie Wiesel.”
The Holocaust. A short, unimaginable period, of just over twelve years, where almost 6 million Jews were murdered by the German nazis. Overall, 17 million victims were killed and thousands were forced to work in inhumane conditions and live in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a victim of the Holocaust, having been deported at the age of 12, is one of the few survivors who lived to tell their story. He has written many books and given many speeches about his experience, but they all convey a similar message, that we as a population, cannot remain silent but to stand up for the indifferences and the horrendous events of this world.
He couldn’t even weep over the loss of his father because his spirit was so broken. He was completely dehumanized. By the end of the war, Elie Wiesel had lost his father in humanity and God. These two aspects that were so important to him prior to World War Two were eradicated from his personality.
The power of human resilience is reflected by how Elie Wiesel remains humane throughout the tragedy of the Holocaust, as expressed in Night. Over the course of the book, Elie shows how he survives the tyrannical reign of Hitler and the Nazis in the camps, with his growth as a person, his resilience against inhuman actions and his survival. These are just a few examples, each being a significant factor to his life, and important to the story. Elie Wiesel shows his growth as a person during the holocaust, one thing that he does is maintain his morals and does not let how he was treated effect that. Elie had death on his mind more times than one, but never did he act upon them or cave in, “If I was going to kill myself, this was the time…
No one could every picture such a horror coming for people who do nothing but good in their small community. Elie along with his family has been sent by trains to the largest concentration camps knowns as, “Auschwitz” at this time no one had known what the place was. The life for him in a concentration was nothing but difficult both physically and emotionally. Besides going through a physical pain every day everyone who had a life in a camp were forced the change how they feel. To be able to survive in such camps you had no choice to worry about feeling you had to adapt to your surrounding by not feeling and becoming numb.
Throughout the advocacy of Elie Wiesel he has had a profound affect on peoples perception of the Holocaust and hatred. Elie at the young age of 15 was deported by the Hungarian Gendarmerie, the German SS, and police from Sighet, Romania to his first concentration camp. In these death camps, Elie, witnessed first hand how terrible the Holocaust was. He was