Hitler began his fourth wave. “”The News is terrible,” he said at last. And then one word: “Transports.” The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day.” (pg. 13, para. 8 & 9) Elie’s father had heard rumors, and again the Jews were willing to believe them. His father heard that they would be taken to somewhere in Hungary to work in the brick factories. The reason for this, he was told, was because they were too close to the front. But Hitler did not care about the safety of the Jews, in fact, he wanted the exact opposite. Elie’s father had also heard that they were allowed to take some of their personal belonging, a backpack, some food, and a few items of clothing. In reality, …show more content…
Before we entered the ghetto, he had told us, “Don’t worry. I’ll warn you if there is danger.” Had he been able to speak to us that night, we might still have been able to flee . . . But by the time we succeeded in opening the window, it was too late. There was nobody outside.” (pg. 14, para. 7 & 8) If the man was able to talk to them, Elie and his family might have been able to escape the horrors that were to come. The next day, most Jews were too be Transported. Elie and his family were to be transported a few days later but they had to endure the first part of the transportation, ““All Jews, outside! Hurry!” . . . The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples. One by one house emptied and the streets filled with people carrying …show more content…
The police were taking roll calls, once, twice, twenty times. The heat was oppressive. Sweat streamed from people’s faces and bodies. Children were crying for water. Water! There was water close by inside the houses, the backyards, but it was forbidden to break rank. “Water, Mother, I am thirsty!” Some of the Jewish police surreptitiously went to fill a few jugs.” (pg. 16, para. 2, 5 - 10) Elie and his family still had hope for a miracle, the next day it was clear there would be no miracle. They spent their day packing their bags and making food to pack. The next day his father woke up early to get information in town. Instead of being transported that day, they were going to move to the smaller ghetto and they would be the last ones to leave. At nine o’clock the same scene was repeated, but there was no one left to bring them water. Then they started to move to the smaller ghetto, ““Faster!” I had no strength left. The journey had just begun and I already felt so weak . . . “Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!” The Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began to hate them . . . They were our first oppressors. They were our first faces of hell and death.” (pg. 19,
So they hang out in the "ghetto". Then Elie’s family is shipped out on the last train. There are like 80 people all stuffed like sardines in the train. The conditions were awful. The trip lasts 3 days.
You experience the worst young. In Elie Wiesel “Night” Teenage Elie is Jewish and was sent to the concentration camp with his family and struggled to maintain his identity in the society he’s in. In this memoir Elie tries to stay strong and survive living in the concentration camp during 1941-1945. Living in an oppressive society impacts Elie’s identity by shaping his views about the hungarian police, people in the camp, and himself.
Right before Elie and his father were rounded up for the camps, a family member had heard tapping on the window but, being boarded up, no one was able to investigate quickly enough. Ellie explains, “ It was only after the war that I had found out who had knocked that night. It was an inspector of the Hungarian police, a friend of my father’s… Had he been able to speak to us that night, we might have still been able to flee” (Wiesel, 14). He acknowledges that because of bad luck, he and his family were not warned in time of the danger they would eventually face.
The first dehumanizing act the Nazis perpetrate on the Jews is removing the normality from their everyday life. In Spring 1941, “German Army vehicles made their appearance” (Wiesel 9) on the streets of Sighet, yet the Jews showed no anguish. However, the harmony is short-lived; “the race toward death had begun” (Wiesel 10). The Nazis enforce rules that strip the Jews of their humanity: “jews were prohibited from
One of the Jewish men decided to take the risk and go for the cauldrons of soup being followed by hundreds of more men. All of the men in the barracks respected their attempt, but everyone knew that they were setting themselves up for a suicide mission. Right before he took a sip he had been shot. They then recieved news about the Buna factory being bombed after the barracks began to shake. Elie had fear when he realized his father was still working at the factory at that moment.
While the Jews were enjoying themselves, in the blink of an eye, Nazis swept through Sighet and captured the Jews. Later, Elie also stated that his dad was emotionless, but the concentration camp exposed his emotions as a weak Jew. Jews think they are so special to God, but Hitler and the Nazis knew their weakness. On page six, paragraph one and four of Night, Elie recalled, “AND THEN, one day al foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet.” “The deportees were quickly forgotten.”
Then they were later chased outside and were forced to run some more. Elie would stare at his dad hopping to tell him something. But he didn't know what. When night fell and the morning stars shined in the sky. Elie felt that he had turn into a new person.
Then things got worse and Jewish leaders were arrested along with taking away any gold, jewelry, or valuables the Jews owned, and they were made to wear a yellow star. Then the Jews were forced into two ghettos within their village. All the while, Elie and his family as well as many other Jewish families made no attempt to disobey the Germans and Hungarian police. Elie claimed at this time they were living in a state of delusion. Then the Jews were transported to Auschwitz by cattle cars fitting eighty people to each one with little food or water.
With Elie and his father’s relationship being as strong as it was Elie’s life was not only saved, but his father’s motivation to keep his life, grew
When Elie and his family get to their concentration camp they get separated, Elie and his father go one way, and Elies sisters and mother go the other way. This is a sad moment for Elie because it is the last time he ever sees his sisters and mother again but it also really makes Elie realize that if he is going to survive the holocaust then he is going to have to rely on his father and his father is going to have to rely on him. On page 32, Dr. Mengele is making his first selection and he tells Elie to go to the left and right behind him is his father who Dr. Mengele also tells to go left In the text Elie says this “I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he have gone to the right, I would have run after him. The baton, once more, moved to the left.
Elie has changed dramatically in many ways over the course of time he has been in the concentration camps. As the holocausts go on Elie hope that he and his family make it through the horrors. Elie has seen the starting and ending of life during his time in the holocausts. Elie’s family is slowly lost one by one at the hands of the nazis. Elie has seen things a 14 year should never bear eyes on.
It was the start of the Holocaust in 1940 when every kid was forced out of their school’s due to hitler becoming in-charge. All of these kids had lost their education and went home to soon find out that they would also be out of their house. Unwillingly students’ would lose their favorite teacher and possibly the only chance to have an education. “Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police,” I asked one bystander that had missed one of the trains. This was the next step of the students’ lives that could soon end when being transferred to Auschwitz one of the many cities with gas chambers and
" (26 ) . Elie was leaning quickly that if he was not to obey orders , he would be violently assaulted . Although Elie was not abused himself , after witnessing a terrified woman receive brutal consequences , he fears it will likely happen to him . Once the truck arrives at the first destination , Elie is ordered to leave the vehicle . At this point , Elie has arrived at the concentration camp named 'Birkenau . '
In the beginning of Elie’s experience, he gets the choice to abandon the ghetto and go with the family’s former maid to a safe shelter. He chose to stay because Elie would have been separated from his parents and little sister. This choice had a negative impact, but also a positive one. The negative side is that Elie’s family stayed in the ghettos, and then the concentration camps. At the time, no one could believe the rumors about the Nazis.
Before continuing their evacuation, there was another selection. When Elie’s father was put in the group to be left to die, Elie chases after him causing enough distraction to save his father. If Elie hadn’t stepped up and chased after his father, his father would have either been killed or left to die with no food or water. The way Elie steps up is by chasing his father, distracting the officers long enough to switch groups. Throughout the story, Elie repeats being in the concentration camp continuously ages his father, to a point where he tells Elie to let him die.