Night by Elie Wiesel, recounts his experiences during the holocaust. Wiesel and his family were Jews living in Nazi Germany. He and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie was fifteen when he was imprisoned and his goal was to keep his family together. When the Germans separated Elie and his father from his mother and sister, he then focused on staying by his father’s side. As he and his father were being transported to Buna Werke, a concentration, the fear of being separated from his father was great, “all I [Elie] could think of was not to lose him [Elie’s father],” (Wiesel 30). Realizing that he would never see his mother and sister again, the idea of being alone without his father terrified him. Elie’s devotion to his father gave him a reason to …show more content…
Sometime during the night the guards had come and taken him, whether he was alive or dead, to the crematorium. Once Elie’s father died he lost all hope, “since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore,” (Wiesel 113). He was transferred to the children’s block of the camp where he spent his days in total idleness. He no longer thought of his mother or father but only of getting food. He said he never dreamed except for dreams about getting an extra ration of soup. Elie now had no one to talk to and trust. In book Elie’s father was there to support and advise Elie through the months, but when he died Elie was all alone. The end of the war was approaching and the Germans had decided to abandon Buchenwald. Each they ten thousand prisoners were marched out of the camp, never to return. As the Allies grew closer the resistance fighters within and outside the camp decided to act, a battle ensued but it was short and the SS guards fled. At five o’clock that day, the first American tanks stood at the