The memoir Night, written by Elie Wiesel, recalls the horrific memories of fifteen-year-old Wiesel as he lives through World War ll and the Holocaust. During World War ll Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party and a German politician, ordered the round up of ethnic and religious groups of people who he disapproved of, thus creating the Holocaust. Throughout this period of time approximately thirteen and a half million people were killed under his order, the main groups being Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, Serbian and Polish citizens, as well as the disabled and the homosexuals.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie experiences horrific events at the hands of the Nazi Party. Opposite of what might be expected, rather than be cruel and hate the world, Elie instead takes his experiences and turns them on the positive side. He uses his tragic and horrific experiences to write the book Night and teach the world about what happened during the Holocaust. Elie’s goal was that we all remember and learn from what happened. The end result was that he won the Nobel Peace Prize for this book.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel remains a constant reminder of the horrors that happened to him and many others during the Holocaust in 1930’s through the 1940’s. The Holocaust was a tragedy that resulted in millions of Jews being murdered. One of these unlucky people who experienced this was Elie Wiesel. While in the camps, he experienced beatings and defeat daily. The torture he endured changed both his relationships with close family and friends and his faith.
This story was meant to stop another holocaust from happening and the world turning against one another and starting another war. If this book had not been writin and the other stories about the holocaust then the world might not be as it is right now. The world might be under war or it might be completely split up and everyone not caring about what is happening in the other countries and there being another holocaust. If there were other holocaust then the world would no longer be safe and there would be war everywhere.
Eliezer and his family are living in the town of Sighet (in Hungary). His family consisted of six people: his mother, father, his three sisters (Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora) and himself. He studies the Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism). His mentor on the Kabbalah was Moishe the Beadle since his father disapproved of him studying mysticism and wanted him to study the traditional Jewish texts and beliefs.
Long Hours of Darkness “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live” (32). Never shall we forget the atrocious events that happened to upwards of six million Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide run by Adolf Hitler to exterminate nearly a whole population of Jews and very few prisoners lived to tell their treacherous stories.
From the small town of Sighet in Transylvania to the huge concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, the author and victim of the book Night, the horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel is a 15 year old Jewish boy who was captured by the Germans or “Nazis” during WWII. He went through an overwhelming amount of trauma, like when he got separated from his mother and sisters and watching his father suffer an unbearable amount of pain that eventually killed him. The fact is, power is a tool that can corrupt itself and others, it can ruin people’s lives and it can do that without people even realizing it.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ”- Shania Twain.
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.
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.
January thirtieth, nineteen-thirtythree to May eighth nineteen forty-five. In these six years, five to six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust by the Nazis. The man behind the largest genocide is Adolf Hitler, who had committed suicide on April thirtieth nineteen forty-five in Berlin. Elie Wiesel was from Sighet and was tossed around Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. The novel Night, tells the story of the harsh, painfully excruciating conditions a growing boy faced.
“We now have a voice for those who don’t.” During the Holocaust, seven million people died, six million which were Jews, and they will never be able to tell their stories. Emotional and physical heartbreak was created and needed to be recognized to express the truth. Elie Wiesel wrote Night to show his journey throughout The Holocaust. He published Night twenty three years later, terrified to relive the moments in his writing.
Elie Wiesel’s Experiences In the book Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his experiences of the Holocaust. Throughout this experience, Elie Wiesel is exposed to life he previously thought unimaginable and they consequently change his life. He becomes To begin with, Elie Wiesel learns that beings aware and mindful are more than just important. On many occasions, he receives warnings and hints toward the impending tragedy.
Elie Wiesel, author and victim of the Holocaust wrote the novel Night which portrays his experiences in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the Nazis dehumanized many groups of people, but primarily the Jewish people. Elie writes about his personal journey through the Holocaust, and how he narrowly escaped death. In Elie’s novel he also provides detailed descriptions of what the victims of the Holocaust had to suffer through, and the different ways the Nazis made them feel like nothing more than animals that are meant to be used for work and slaughtered. One of the first things that Elie and the other Jewish people from his village have to suffer through is riding in a cramped cattle car, as if they were animals.
It is a common assumption among numerous people in the world that the Holocaust never existed. In fact, almost fifty percent of the world population never even heard of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel helped people around the world learn about the Holocaust through his book “Night.” He wanted people to see the bravery, courage, and guilt of the Jews through his book. “Night” shows the horrific and malicious acts in the German concentration camps during the Holocaust.