Human Nature In Night By Elie Wiesel

The human nature is naturally dark- we come from animals. Everyone, no matter who they are, always has the animal instinct that they are above all, and they should get what they want. This creates a power complex among humans-- the difference between humans and animals, though, is that humans make it possible to act of this. This causes horrible things such as the Holocaust to be created and acted upon, killing millions. The survivors of this can speak out on this. One example by Primo Levi is, “I commend these words to you./Engrave them on your hearts/When you are in your house, when you walk on your wa,/When you go to bed, when you rise/Repeat them to your children/Or may your house crumble/Disease render you powerless/Your offspring avert

Remember, or repeat. In an excerpt from a book called Night by Elie Wiesel, it states, “Back then, Buna was a veritable hell. No water, no blankets, less soup and bread. At night, we slept almost naked and the temperature was thirty below. We were collecting corpses by the hundreds every day. Work was very hard.” (Night: Paragraph 5) The importance of this shows how Hitler had the Jews in camps treated. It wasn’t just separating them from the world-- it was torture, and inevitable murder. The way Hitler treated the Jews spread to everyone else, including civilians, soldiers, and even political leaders. The Evian Conference was one to help give Jews freedom and escape from all the terrors, but it failed in doing so when the ideas were rejected. Once again, human nature is despicable. Evil. An article explains, “Congress had set immigration quotas in 1924 that limited the number of immigrants and discriminated against groups considered racially and ethnically undesirable.” (The Evian Conference: Paragraph 3) The article is written about the Evian Conference and the effects it should have had and the effects it did have on the Jewish community- most of it was