Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

Introduction Throughout World War 2 Germany was living and thriving in a sea of repression. Hitler and his followers blamed the Jewish for many things that had gone wrong during World War 1 and the germans believed that the Jewish needed to be punished for that. Nazi’ started forcing the Jewish out of their houses, stealing their valuables, transporting them in overpacked transport cars, relocating them to concentration camps, and it is at those concentration camps where they were starved, beaten, and destroyed. Before all of these actions were able to happened Hitler’s SS officers had to be trained to repress the Jewish and it is from that point of view that you should “read” my documents. In Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” we were told that the reason that the Jewish did not fight back was because they could not believe that human beings could do such things and that is why I chose to write my documents from the view of a SS officer who is completing his training and learning how to treat the Jewish.

Elie Wiesel was a writer known for his memoir Night, in which he recounted his experiences for surviving the Holocaust. He was born on September 30, 1928 in Romania. During his early life, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was sent to the Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel and his father were forced to work under inhumane conditions in Buna Werke labor camp. Then, they were forced to march to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten.

To tell the truth, Elie’s beliefs before the Holocaust is very spiritual, godly and orthodox. He used to spend most of his time at the synagogue temple worshiping his God. Since he always cried while praying a man named Masha the Beadle asked him why he prayed and Elie’s thought it was a very strange question but he still answered him with a confused face on his look as if he had known idea what he was saying. Elie’s said why he lives and why does he breath he said again he doesn’t know.” I succeeded on my own finding a master for himself in the person of Mash the Beadle’’.

Night By Elie Wiesel Through his rough time at the concentration camp Elie did his best to keep his hope up. During the book Elie showed hope that kept him motivated to stay alive. In Night by Elie Wiesel it shows hopes keeps the spirit of motivation to stay alive when he was trapped under bodies, kept running/walking to the concentration camp, and keeping his dad alive. Hope was shown when Elie was trapped under bodies; he was motivated by hope to survive. In the book he said “ I succeeded to digging a hole in the wall of dead and dying people , a small hole through which I could drink a little air.”

When they stopped at Buchenwald, Elie had a self conflict. It was about him and his father, “...If only I

After facing a few years of trials and tribulations, Elie Wiesel was able to survive those hard times and live to speak about it in Night; his autobiography, which described his life over a time of nearly two years in concentration camps and life on his very own hell on earth. Night goes into depth about Elie’s experience in the concentration camps; Auschwitz and Buna where not only does he lose his family, but figuratively himself, God, and hope for humanity. Miraculously, Elie survived the persecution and genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust, but sadly his conscious and faith did not. Elie had to witness and faced obstacles that were never meant or suitable for a boy his age and that drastically changed his mindset and outlook on life.

In class we read the nonfiction book, Night by Elie Wiesel. It is a story about Elie, as a young teen, being a victim of the Holocaust and the gruesome situations he been in. In the book Elie says, “The world is not interested in us” (Wiesel 33). I believe that this statement is true. The world did not do anything to save the Jewish people and just observed them being treated like objects.

Elie was lucky enough to have a teacher at the time, his name was Moshe the Beadle. Moshe the Beadle taught every little thing about Jewish mysticism to Elie. Elie was very fortunate to have a teacher in the first place. One night, Moshe the Beadle was sent to a death camp in Auschwitz, Germany. After a week of torture, Moshe the Beadle came back and told Elie and his family that the German Nazis are trying to ruin the quality of people’s lives.

Further into the book, war became the main priority in the lives of the Jewish and they started to acknowledge what Hitler was trying to achieve. Elie was now directly impacted by the war and the horrors that came along with it. “What do you expect? That’s war…

This french girl showed Elie kindness, which was very hard to show, in the midst of the grueling conditions of the working camp. The French girl, Elie later learned was a Jew that had false papers and passed as an Aryan. This secret allowed

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed”(Elie Wiesel).

About two years ago, a C.I.A. torture report was released, the subject on detainees captured after September 11, who were suspected to be linked to the attack. One of the more famous detainees, Majid Khan, who had been afflicted with Al Qaeda, was captured in 2003 and was held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006. He says that the interrogators waterboarded him twice, was moved among series of C.I.A. operated “black sites” over some months, and the torture still continued. He was beaten repeatedly, hung from a wooden beam for three days, and shackled and starved. He was even submerged in an ice bath, the transparent ice burning his skin like fire, slowly numbing his body.

I could hear only the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings -- his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again.” (N, pg 95).

This piece of evidence shows that Elie rebelled against the SS to be with his father, which takes tremendous courage. Furthermore, in the earlier chapters of Wiesel’s novel he was beaten by a Kapo named Idek because he was in a bad mood. A French woman showed courage by giving Elie a mini speech in perfect German, a language no one knew she spoke, in order to pass off as an Aryan. Years later they meet

(53) This shows human connection because the French woman tells Elie to save his anger, and use it another day where he will need it. This saved his strength for later, and helps him survive when he is on the brink of death. The fact that a complete stranger told him this, created a strong connection unlike any other, because she does not know Elie, but she still helps