Black and white. That’s how you were told to see, that’s how life was set, eventually though things will change. Oskar Schindler and Elie Wiesel were both on different sides but in many ways they were similar. Living becomes heavy, becomes hard but you must persevere. Elie Wiesel was put on the side of the victim he was hurt and treated like nothing whilst Oskar Schindler was treated like a king.
In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he compares hangings of two prisoners; through his word choice, he reveals the brutality many people faced during the Holocaust. During an air raid on Buna, a prisoner utilizes an opportunity to steal soup. The next day, the same prisoner is sentenced to death. During this hanging, the prisoner yells, “‘Long Liver Liberty! A curse upon Germany!”’(Wiesel 46).
Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
In the memoir Night, by Ellie Wiesel, the Jewish prisoners should not follow the tradition of Yom Kipper. The Jewish people were already given small portions of food which made them vulnerable to malnutrition which could have led to their deaths. “To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death”(pg 69). The prisoners were under control of the concentration camp, which stole all their freedoms and identities. People may have felt they did not have a choice but to follow Yom Kipper.
Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was born and raised in Sighetu Marmatiei,Romania until 1944,where he and his family were separated in Auschwitz,and that is where his mother,sisters, grandmother had died. Also while he was there Wiesel had to overcome Death of his family members, Starvation, and. Abuse. These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian. Wiesel had to overcome the death of his family members.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, we are given a firsthand experience of the Nazi’s inhumane treatment of the Jews during World War II. This window into the treatment of the Jews is important to me as I pursue a career as an Army officer. As an officer it will be my duty to protect this country from our enemies and ensure that no people group is ever massacred or abused like the Jews were during World War II. The Nazi’s thought of the Jews as subhuman and wanted to cleanse Germany of them.
Inhumanity and Cruelty in Night Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, conducted a genocide known as the Holocaust during World War II that was intended to exterminate the Jewish population. The Holocaust was responsible for the death of about 6 million Jews. Night is a nonfiction novel written by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience during the Holocaust. Many events in the novel convey a theme of “man’s inhumanity to man”. The prisoners of the concentration camps are constantly tortured and neglected by the German officers who run the camps.
To begin with, Wiesel could not believe what was happening. He didn’t believe how cruel the Germans were. Wiesel was living a nightmare and couldn’t escape it. For instance, Wiesel stated, “I pinched myself; was I still alive? Was I awake?
The severely cruel conditions of concentration camps had a profound impact on everyone who had the misfortune of experiencing them. For Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a survivor of Auschwitz, one aspect of himself that was greatly impacted was his view of humanity. During his time before, during, and after the holocaust, Elie changed from being a boy with a relatively average outlook on mankind, to a shadow of a man with no faith in the goodness of society, before regaining confidence in humanity once again later in his life. For the first 13 years of his life, Elie seemed to have a normal outlook on humanity.
Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camps during World War II. During this time, Wiesel witnessed many horrific acts. Two of these were executions. Though the processes of the executions were similar, the condemned and the Jews’ reactions to the execution were different. One execution was the single hanging of a strong giant youth from Warsaw.
Holocaust has been a horrendous genocide during the second world war which must not happen again. Since Hitler desired to demolish all the Jewish people, he commenced to eliminate them by setting up the concentration camps and it consequently led to over 6 million Jewish casualties. Although there was a mass murder during the holocaust, some Jewish people have successfully survived and one of them is Elie Wiesel who has written a novel, “Night.” In the story, it reveals the cruelty of Nazis who incinerate Jewish children in a furnace for fuel. As Elie and other Jewish people approach to the camp in a packed train, they sight smoke from an incinerator and starts to smell burning flesh.
The Holocaust was a horrible time in the 1940s. Hitler the leader of the Nazi’s had an idea of just having the perfect people which was having blonde hair and blue eyes. Hitler's plan was to kill the people who didn’t have these appearances. Hitler would do this by creating concentration camps that would torture, kill people in many ways which for example burning, starving them to death. In the book Night a book Elie Wiesel a Holocaust survivor wrote, talks how Elie survived those terrible times.
In a span of 10 years, the Holocaust killed over 7 million people, that’s just as much as the population of Hong Kong. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his experience on how he survived the Holocaust and what he went through. How he dealt with the horrors and even to how he felt of his dad’s death and how he saw himself after it was all over. As he tried to publish it he was constantly turned down due to the fact of how horrid and truful it was. He still tried and tried until it was finally published.
Throughout the memoir, Wiesel talks about how disgusted he is with how the conditions he and the rest of the prisoners are in have destroyed family bonds and have made everyone selfish and destroyed any compassion they’ve had for each other. He believes that the family bond should be strong and constant, like the bond he has with his father. He continuously explains how he felt like his father depended on him, and that it was his own responsibility to care for his father as much as he could by staying alive as long as possible. On page 86 while talking about how his father was the only reason he wouldn’t let himself die, he says, “ I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?
