Elie Wiesel's Experience In The Book Night

The Holocaust was a huge moment in history. It impacted millions of innocent human beings because of how they looked and what they believed in. The Germans killed millions of Jews, gypsies, Romani...anyone who did not fit the mold of the perfect Arian. In the book “Night” by Elie Weisel, he shares his experience and moments when he was a young boy. He tells about how he began to feel less of an individual and more of a “thing”.

Elie was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. For his whole life, he pursued religious studies before he was taken from his home at the age of twelve and put in Auschwitz concentration camp and began to only see “flames, huge flames…” (pg. 32) “And the thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz.” (pg. 62 sic) Every day, he saw beatings, killings, and how inhumane the Germans were to the Jews and that a number on their clothing and the tattoo on their arms became who they were.

For some reason this execution impacted Ellie deeply emotionally and faithfully. Even though Ellie watched thousands of people killed a day but seeing this young boy “ weep..” ( Pg. 63 sic) and how he saw “ The withered bodies that had long gone forgotten the bitter taste of tears” ( Pg. 63 sic) left Ellie the rest of the day thinking about faith and everything his father taught him as a young boy wouldn't save him from the nightmare he was