...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… A witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory" (Wiesel ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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...Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the story of the Holocaust, the mass genocide of the Jewish people and important event in WWII. The memoir Night begins in the polish town of Sighet. The story is About Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy whose family gets deported to the concentration camp with other Jews from his town. Upon arrival his Mother and Sister, Tzipora are separated and executed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz death camp. Following that, after months of work, with the advancing allied front, the prisoners were forced to march all night to the Gleiwitz concentration camp. As Elie’s story continues, after being stuffed inside a camp barrack for 3 days without food or water, the Prisoners were let out for a selection, Elie’s Father was chosen to...
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...and have permanently engraved horrible memories into those who survived. During the Holocaust many victims suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full liquidation. Another example is when Elie describes that living space in ghettos was uncomfortable, but highly appreciated. “Night fell, twenty people gathered in my backyard.”(Wiesel 10). Elie Wiesel’s father sat with groups of people...
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...Appearance vs. Reality In the novel Night (1956), Elie Wiesel illustrates the horror that he faces through the Holocaust. Wiesel’s drive to get out of the concentration camp with his father alive causes him to be directed through all of these challenges. When it seems that everything is lost time after time again, he starts to lose himself and his humanity. Wiesel’s detailed descriptions of the Jews denying their inevitable truth that had shown right in front of them is also later shown that not only did the Jewish community, not face their own reality, however Elie Wiesel finds it hard to face his reality through this tough time. The play Oedipus Rex (420) by (Sophocles) also demonstrates the tragedy of how sensitive our mentality can...
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...going. Once humanity lets go of faith, humanity will crumble. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author puts the reader in his of view where he is the Jew, and the Nazis have captured him. This all takes places during the Holocaust and the novel shows the harsh conditions that the Jews were put through. The camps that the Jews are put into are made to crush their desire for freedom and make them lose all hope. Faith, one of the main themes in this novel, is portrayed very well through the main protagonist. Elie Wiesel, a faithful person in the beginning of the novel, starts to decline his relationship with faith as he is put through more trials and tribulations. In Night, Elie, the main protagonist, is put...
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...Would you ignore if six million people were assassinated? The historical background of Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, has experienced such a significant event. Wiesel is an Auschwitz survivor and his memoir, Night, reflects the society and the beliefs of its time. A controversy about this work is that some people believe the Holocaust never happened and as a result regard the book as false. However, this novel was important at the time it was written, because it was a time when people didn‘t believe in the Holocaust. In addition, Elie Wiesel’s background is essential to the Holocaust’s memory, because it deals with the Nazi’s genocide. The author of Night, who is also the protagonist of the book, shows how delusion and rumors spread false hopes and lies throughout the camp. The author also showed how Hitler’s belief that other races were inferior and didn’t deserve to live led to Hitler’ rise to power. Wiesel’s story is crucial to that time-period since it shows his perseverance through multiple concentration camps and the loss of close family members....
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...“There are eighty of you in the car...if anyone goes missing you will all be shot like dogs(night pg 24).” This is one of many examples of inhumane content in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Inhumanity can lead to a long life memory that can't forgotten. Two significant themes i picked out are losing faith and hope as well as the will to survive. The will to survive was very important in the holocaust because it wasn't easy for them to survive. On page 86 in the book night they were running to the next concentration camp but if you would not be able to make it there and stop running you would be shot. The jews wanted to live because they said “don't think, don't stop, run (Night pg 86).” That shows that they want to live and keep running because...
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...attained from a human being, their outlook on life becomes devious. Having a positive on life conceives comfort in many people’s lives. When an outside fury comes along and changes someone’s life, his or her attitude is going to change drastically. In three books I’ve read, “Night”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, each struggle with the society they are dealt with. To be more specific, each main character has to struggle for freedom in the society that is surrounding them. When someone is enforced to go against his or her accustomed state of life, a negative state of mind is most likely going to be perceived through that person’s actions. In Elie Wiesel’s novel “Night”, a gloomy conduct is shown towards freedom, faith, and life. One of the most important rights as a human being is the capability to live willingly. Freedom gives people the right...
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...Stars in the night sky are obscured by millions of ashes; ashes of death and vanished hope. The eerie night as described in the novel Night, by Ellie Wiesel has many significant symbols. During the holocaust, darkness consumed individuals with the fear of the unknown. Flames of infernos covered the sky in dark smoke, and released a penetrating smell. Death was one of the factors one feared during the night. The gloomy scenery also convinced and tested many individual’s faith in God. The provoking actions performed by German soldiers consumed one to believe that fear was greater than faith. Ellie Wiesel, introduces the many tribulations of one yearning for truth and the distress for survival during the night. Night is a symbol for the absence...
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...Holocaust by May 8, 1945. The Holocaust was ran by Adolf Hitler. It first started on January 30, 1933, and ended May 8, 1945. The reason why is that he thought the Jewish people were going to be a problem. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor and he wrote the noble peace prize book "Night". In the book Night, Elie first doesn't have such a strong relationship with his father he does not show his affections to his family In page 4 in night Wiesel says "My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feeling even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kind". So they don't really have a strong relationship but later on in the story when they were in the...
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...Night by Elie Wiesel emphasizes cruelty during the Holocaust. Wiesel, his father, and many other Jewish people suffered greatly. They were tortured, starved, shaved bald, confiscated of their riches, and killed. These experiences, however, revealed a great deal about Elie Wiesel. His actions proved that he was selfless, due to his acts of kindness towards his father. It also proved that he was empathetic towards others who suffered. While these actions showed much about his nature, it was also apparent that the Holocaust would make a lasting impression on him. The cruelty that Wiesel experienced throughout Night revealed that he was selfless, empathetic, and forever impacted by his experiences. In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel had many encounters with cruelty. When he arrived at the first concentration camp, Wiesel noticed a truck full of babies. Wiesel stated small children were...
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...Memory (noun) -- the capability to preserve and think about events or information that occurred in the past. A memory can be a two way street, it can either be favorable or atrocious depending on the impact that the event had. Elie Wiesel -- now a Nobel-Prize winning author, humanities professor, and Judaic studies professor at schools such as NYU, Boston University, and City University. Wiesel resided in Romania during the Holocaust and was sent to Auschwitz in Poland. Luckily, he and two of his sisters survived this traumatic experience, but, they will forever have the malicious, knavish, and despicable memories forever. Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, does not reveal much information about...
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...Your name is not you anymore, you are just a number. Everything that you had practiced and grew up on didn’t matter anymore. What if you were being treated so badly that you finally lose your faith in the God that you believe in because you don’t see him doing anything In the worst situation possible. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel was taken out of his home and given the life that nobody could possibly imagine. Family throughout the story was about staying together and not losing each other, Faith, they were questioning their faith and wondering why god wasn’t there and why god wasn’t doing anything in there time of need, and strength was why were they fighting?...
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...Gabby Rubin Mrs Cardell English 10 19 March 2024 Why I write: Making No Become Yes Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. He was 12 when it first started happening. Elie and his family had to run and then his mom and sister died. And then it was just him and his dad and they did everything together. Elie knew this story had to be told about the Holocaust. It was still very hard for him to tell. Another reason he says he writes is to not go mad. I think what Eli meant by this was that it was very hard for him to talk about this. Because it brings back lots of memories. First he remembers the scary nights and being sick and hungry all the time, being scared and feeling lost. He thought that he would never be able to talk about this. I think what...
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...approximately six million Jews by the Nazi command during World War II. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he states, “…in their early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed” (viii). The shock and horror does not lessen regardless of how many times a book or article is read or a movie watched about the Holocaust. Learning about the horrible, dark period from 1935 – 1945 is important in several ways. On one hand, it has been said we must learn about the past in order not to relive it. However, we are also told not to dwell in the past. When studying the Holocaust, both adages have truth. Chilling questions occur when learning about the Holocaust. They are questions that Elie Wiesel repeated in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel says he remembers asking his father, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (118). Millions of Jews were killed by overwork, starvation, torture, and cold blooded murder just because they were a different race and religion. Wiesel urges readers not to forget. Wiesel states, “To forget would not be only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time”(xv). Wiesel later states, “What I do know is that there is ‘response’ in responsibility...
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