Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

The prisoners are starved, shaved, beaten, and treated as “filthy dogs,” all while working forcedly throughout the day. Eliezer and Shlomo had to move heavy stones to wagons without having strength left. Family members were separated just because they didn’t fit the age range. Many just died because they could not last anymore, like Wiesel’s father. There was this thing called selection.

Elie Wiesel was a famous writer, teacher, and activist. He was one of millions of Jews who was put into a concentration camp during WWII, but he was only one of a few Jews who actually survived. Eight years after Wiesel, and the Jews who were still alive, were freed, Elie published a Holocaust memoir, Night. It has now become a bestseller, and is an influential book to show what happened during the holocaust, and to remember those that died. Elie Wiesel was only 15 when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz, Wiesel and his father were separated from the rest of their family.

While reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, one of the things I learned about was the jews living conditions. I read about Elie living them with many other jews and it stuck out to me because how could a person live like that and stay alive? Every jew that was caught was sent to a concentration camp and had a total different way of lifestyle when being held there. Another thing that stuck out while reading the book was the SS officers. The SS officers are Hitler's protective unit.

They were put onto trains, not knowing where they were going. Trips ranged from multiple hours to multiple days in tightly packed trains. Prior to deporting the Jews, they were often split up between men and women. This caused a lot of family separation and even the last time that some would see their loved ones. Upon arrival to their destination, they quickly learned that they were at a concentration camp.

Imagine watching your beloved hometown being captured by your worst enemy. All the things that you love, being stripped of you one by one. Forced to wear a gold star just because of your religion, and being beat up and mistreated by your fellow neighbors. Sadly, this was just the beginning. As time continued on ghettos where the Jews’ new home.

One of the most known facts about the camps is that the prisoners were not treated fairly; truly they were dealt

When the SS officers of Auschwitz take their prisoners on the infamous death march they use cruel comparisons, telling the Jews to run faster and calling then nothing but flea-ridden dogs (Wiesel 85). The mental harassment and punishment is intentional used to make the Jewish people to be stripped of their

The victims traveled by railway in cattle trucks. The victims kept in these wagons were kept in very poor conditions. When the prisoners were brought to the camp, they were not told what the camp actually was. They were told that they had arrived at a transit camp. The prisoners had to undress for disinfection and showering before entering the main camp.

When they got to the works camps they were separated into two groups. The first group would get killed that day and

In the memoir, “Night” is the story of a Jewish boy who experiences and lives through the Holocaust. Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduce the Jews to little more than “things” which could easily be gotten rid of in terrible with no remorse. Throughout this memoir one way Jews were dehumanized was by being treated with cruelty. The Jews were forced to watch their family members, friends, & own kind slowly die.

The Nazi officers wanted the Jewish men to march like they were animals, and to not stop until they deemed fit. The Jewish were also marching in freezing weather, and had no food or drink while they were marching. They were expected to be like machines, and if they failed as machines, they were simply finished off by the SS. Elie described, “When the SS were tired, they were replaced. But no one replaced us.

The first quote will discuss the death marches. Once the Germans found out the Allies were getting close, they ordered death marches to kill off as many of the remaining Jews as they could. They forced the Jews to march to another camp farther within Germany. “All night I heard shooting. He who got tired, who can’t walk so fast, they shot.

Over the years, The Auschwitz Concentration camp has become synonymous with death, inhumanity, and evil. This particular camp was the largest mass murder site in human history. The camp claimed victims of all ethnicities, but Jews were the main group that the Nazis were trying to eradicate. Out of the many concentration camps set up by the regime, Auschwitz was the most lethal one of them all. Millions of people that the Nazis considered to be imperfect were brutally killed in this camp.

An example of the cruel treatment against Vladek is the death march that the Auschwitz prisoners were forced to walk. As Vladek described, “All night I heard shooting. He who got tired, who can’t walk so fast, they shot. The more we walked, the more I heard shooting” (Spiegelman 82). As they were on the death march, the guards and Nazi’s continued to exhibit violence and cruelty over their victims, by shooting those who could not keep up.

They were put on the train from the German frontier to Poland to experience the frontier as part of a training regiment and then sent back. On September of 1944, they were armed for battle with gas masks, spades and revolvers. They traveled all day on a train towards the West. After getting off at Venlo, they marched all night to