..."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 smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments, which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never" (Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor). The Holocaust. Just thinking about...
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... This is similar to the relationship between Elie Wiesel, his father and God. At first, Elie built a barrier between him and his father because he felt that his father did not care for their family as much as he cared for others: Eliezer, devoted to his religion, is not close with his father because he refuses that Elie read the Kabbalah, a religious text. After he and his father are separated from the rest of his family, Elie realizes that they are going to have to depend on each other to survive the Holocaust. Throughout Night, Elie grows closer to his father, whilst...
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...them to endure harsh working and living conditions as they tortured and killed them. To this day, survivors are telling the tales of how it changed their lives. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, he talks about the terrible and inhumane things he had to endure. The Nazis had purposely treated these innocent, everyday people inhumanely every single day they were in their custody. The Nazis were a very cruel group of people who absolutely despised the Jewish population and all they stood for. When they believed the Jews stepped out of line they resorted to the extreme punishments, most inhumane. The memoir Night gives a picture of this when Wiesel writes about a time he had caught an officer doing something he shouldn’t have been doing, “I obeyed. Then I was aware of nothing but the...
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...People who are religious are close with God and deny questioning His Being. Wiesel was one of the Jews who survived the Holocaust during World War ll. Wiesel’s identity of God changed during his experience in Auschwitz due to the harsh conditions faced. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel the major theme throughout the whole story is that people struggle to maintain any sort of faith in god when faced with extreme struggles. The greatest change to Elie Wiesel’s identity was his loss of faith in God. Before leaving with his family to the camps, Elie was very religious person he would cry after praying at night. When the German police came to take the Jews to the ghettos, they pulled Elie from his prayer. Elie thanks God when he was told he is...
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...The holocaust is defined as a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” is about exactly that. Because he was Jewish, he and his family were taken away from their home in 1944 to go to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald against their will. Before this experience he was very religious, he even sought out help from a religious man to improve his faith in God and to learn more. As the book goes on Elie starts to change his views because he is beginning to believe that a God wouldn’t allow such terrible things to happen. At the point they thought they were going to the crematoria, Elie’s father began to pray in a whisper. Elie was thinking differently, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why...
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...This would be Elie Wiesel the author of the Holocaust biography Night, who describes the events of his imprisonment in the extermination camp, Auschwitz. His story, his writing is incredibly raw, real. He writes in such detail, his voice filled with such regret of his ignorance that it can only be categorized as truth. Unfiltered truth. During his stay in Buna he witnesses a pipal, which meant an angelic looking boy, being hung. The child remained for hours unwilling to die, his innocence seemed to lighten his weight, until he lost it all when he saw the true evil created when people are silenced, afraid and unwilling to speak. Elie was one of those people, the ones who stood, silenced by fear, hunger. Helpless. It was after that childs hanging that he truly gave up on God, that he truly realized he lived in a world of night. A world of absolute darkness in which every shred of hope is ripped away from you and you are left alone in the dark to fight against the demons determined to relinquish your humanity, determined to see you suffer. Demons created when people follow what their told not what's morally...
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...horrendous as survivors explained. The book ‘“Night’” written by Elie Wiesel does just that as it describes in detail the events that unfolded. In ‘Night,’ Elie is continuously relies on his faith and beliefs to continue fighting. Being constantly surrounded by savages or men that lost faith and gave up causes Elie to question his faith from time to time. Humans in general have a repulsive nature, this is then magnified when pushed to the limit. Not even Elie can escape the evilness in human nature, however, he attempts to keep his innocence or sanity the best out of anyone he encounters. Both witnessing and...
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...The book Night by Elie Wiesel has been by far the best book I have every read. This book is so detailed and informative that it literally gave me cold chills while reading it. I never knew how hard and emotional it was to live through the Holocaust until I read this book. Elie Wiesel was a young fifteen year old boy who was apart of a jewish family. Born in a small town called Sighet in Transylvania. Wiesel and his family was invaded by Hitlers troops, Wiesel then learns he has to grow up quick and smart to survive living through the Holocaust. Everything all started when Wiesel started studying the cabbala an ancient jewish tradition with a teacher name Moche the Beadle (Kabbala). Moche was a smart man who became known as a lier because...
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...In the book Night by Elie Weisel it explains how Eliezer was in a Nazi concentration camp in Europe, the struggles of the Nazi people and their ways, Eliezer's father and the outcomes of the Holocaust. Many of the things Eliezer thought, did, and sometimes even seen or heard could easily be compared to human lives and how they act, think, or become after and/or during an incarceration period. When you are incarcerated your mind wonders like crazy, you really don't have much to do but think. Just like Eliezer did about his father.sometimes you can think so much that you almost start to make up stuff in your head. Like all the bad things that could happen because you are away in a camp, jail, prison, etc. Even though it is most likely isn't true at all it still makes you think and makes your mind go crazy which is no different than the way Eliezer's head and thoughts was. (It's just an overall way of explaining thoughts without an actual situation to explain). After a while you get better at controlling your thoughts and those mind wandering nights. In Eliezer’s case however, with the passing of his father, with how close they were it was/would of made our human lives way more difficult to control our minds, but it's never impossible. Things will always get greater later even when you...
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...Elie Wiesel struggles with his faith in God throughout his experiences in the concentration camp. Before all of his experiences with the concentration Elie had complete belief in god, he studied Kabballah and had a teacher. Although, when he arrives at the concentration camps and sees people get beat, put in the crematorium, separated from their families, and plentiful other he begins to question Gods purposes. He comes back to partaking belief in God after the concentration camps had ended and he could take a reflection of all of the atrocious events that he went through. Elies Wiesel’s faith in God fluctuates in the memoir Night. Initially, he has complete faith while studying Kabbalah, but as he sees horrendous events taking place Auschwitz he struggles to maintain belief in God and finally regains faith after a time of reflection. Previous to the concentration camps, when Jews belonged in their own community, Elie enjoyed to study Kabbalah. Elie had no doubts in God, studying the Jewish texts of Kabbalah interested him. “He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain, I succeeded on...
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... Elie Wiesel’s existence begins in Hungary where he is born in a Jewish slum. Life takes a different lane when he lands in concentration camps under the Nazi regime. The period from when he becomes a teenager sees him face the harsh life where his father denies him the opportunity to pursue Cabbala. Elie gets his own master, Moishe the Beadle who significantly tells him to spend time pursuing God through questions and not trying to comprehend His answers. "I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions." (Wiesel 30). Moishe is among the first prisoners taken by Germans and when he manages to escape and tell people of what Germans were doing to prisoners, he is taken for insane. There then follows a trail of events where he undergoes a series of bizarre encounters including the loss of his sisters and mother. This was a very trying time for Elie in which life drives out the innocence from him completely. In the concentration camps, where they are taken to as Jews, they are subjected to incessant torture and Elie witnesses babies burning in furnaces. The aim of this essay is trying identifying various ideas in the book written by Wiesel, identifying their changes, and at last draft a conclusion from these ideas as well as marking a significant change in his life since it takes a toll on his personal relationship with God. Changes in ideas about God and Humanity by Elie Wiesel From an innocent religious boy, Wiesel was geared...
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...ground around the prisoners assumed the role of a graveyard and the living struggled to survive through the night. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust and prisoner of multiple concentration camps in Europe, wrote the memoir Night about his unimaginable suffering during...
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...event like the Holocaust? Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, will answer this question. Throughout history humanity has faced numerous tragic event caused either by nature or human beings, both of God’s creations. The Holocaust, which means “sacrifice by fire”, began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. During the Holocaust the Jews were the most affected. The Nazis killed eleven million Jews, almost two-thirds of all the Jewish population living in Europe. Jews were not the only ones the Holocaust targeted; Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also victims of Hitler’s plan. In recent years, events like The Twin Towers terrorist attack in 2001 and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami have brought enormous suffering to the world, suffering that can somehow be compared to the one lived during the Holocaust. Continuing is the analysis of Elie Wiesel’s horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Did these experiences affect his faith? Was his perception of humanity ideas impacted? The book Night starts describing Elie’s faith as one indestructible. As young as he was he had deep knowledge of Jewish mysticism studies. Elie believed in God; a God of love and unlimited power. He was told that God is the master creator of all world’s wonders and that these wonders where the emanation of the divine world. Elie concluded that if God was the creator of everything in the physical world and God is a God of love then the world should be a reflection of him, a world of good. ...
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...How would you feel, if you got treated like an animal? In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish boy name Elie Wiesel and his family who get forced into camps during the holocaust. Ellie explains the horror that him, his family and other jews went through during this time. The theme of Night is when people get treated like an animal, they lose their identity. How would you feel if you could feel any pain? When the kapos were beating Elias, he could feel the pain. “The kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain. A glacier wind was enveloping us. We were naked holding our shoes and belts¨ (Wiesel 36). This quote explains inhumanity because the kapos were beating people so much that they couldn’t feel the pain anymore and then after getting beaten they had to stand naked holding their stuff in the cool. How could someone hurt or kill one their family member for something so little: ¨Meir… my little Meir! Don't you recognize me… you're killing your father. I have bread for you too for you too. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. His son searches him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour...
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...Romania, twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends much time and emotion on the Talmud and on Jewish mysticism. His instructor, Moshe the Beadle, returns from a near-death experience and warns that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives. However, even when anti-Semitic measures force the Sighet Jews into supervised ghettos, Elie's family remains calm and compliant. In spring, authorities begin shipping trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. Elie's family is part of the final convoy. In a cattle car, eighty villagers can scarcely move and have to survive on minimal food and water. One of the deportees, Madame Schächter, becomes hysterical with visions of flames and furnaces. At midnight on the third day of their deportation, the group looks in horror at flames rising above huge ovens and gags at the stench of burning flesh. Guards wielding billy clubs force Elie's group through a selection of those fit to work and those who face a grim and improbable future. Elie and his father Chlomo lie about their ages and depart with other hardy men to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Elie's mother and three sisters disappear into Birkenau, the death camp. After viewing infants being tossed in a burning pit, Elie rebels against God, who remains silent. Every day, Elie and Chiomo struggle to keep their health so they can remain in the work force. Sadistic guards and trustees exact capricious punishments. After three weeks, Elie and his father are forced...
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