1. “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” 6 The Nazis wanted the Jews to feel empty, intimidate them, make them feel like there wasn’t hope in the world, scared towards them. The Nazis also probably just wanted to kill them all for everything to go fast because of how Hitler brainwashed them on everything to Germans being the best to Jews being the cause of all bad in the world.
2. “I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves
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“The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.” 12 It was ruled by no one, the simply believed that no one was taking over anyone no more. That nothing that was going around them was real just an illusion to the eye.
8. “Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun” 17 I think Wiesel in this quote was trying to show death in a way, emptiness. All the Jews were taken from their homes and was left to one but to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. Its saying that Jews weren’t going to return back home, that were ever they were taking the Jews from Sighet they weren’t going to return.
9. “The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border. We realized then that we were not staying in Hungary. Our eyes opened. Too late” 23 The Jews of Sighet wanted to maintain with hope and optimistic about where they were going that they ignored Mrs. Schechter’s warnings. But that’s what led them there in the first place for not listening to Moishe and to others. The illusions they created for themselves were dangerous. They kept themselves ignorant of what was to come until it was too
This quote can make you imply that Vladek’s town was already taken over by the Germans and therefore, had restrictions like a ghetto. Third, the separate groups of Jews had barracks to live in. “In the barrack
“I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.” (Wiesel 39) In chapter 3 it’s discussing how what happened and what has changed as Elie and his father had been going through the process of selection.
“Every few yards, there stood an SS man, his machine gun trained on us. Hand in hand we followed the throng.” ( pg. 29) Eliezer's instinct for survival outweighs everything else. Although Eliezer and his family did not want to go to Auschwitz, they went because they were threatened if they did not comply. The SS guards would have killed anyone who did not follow orders, so they left their home and everything they have every known in order to survive.
The quote is important to Elie’s experiences because it shows the severity of what he had been through while inside of the wagon. Having One hundred men crammed inside a single cart and only twelve remaining is a significant difference. It’s important to his experiences because out of all those who died, he and his father managed to come out alive. However, since his father was so old Elie had to help him survive by putting him first and protecting him when others thought he was dead. This quote is important to the book as a whole because it shows how normalized death was for the Jewish people, it shows how disposable the Jews were to the Nazis.
Elie does not want to be separated from his father and be left alone. The Jewish people were first taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz, and when they arrived, Elie and his father were separated from Elie’s mother and his sister, Tzipora. Later on, they found out that the women and children were burned in a crematorium. The book states, “The baton pointed to the left. I took half a step forward.
1- Elie Wiesel is comparing the soup to the taste of corpses because before they went to get their soup to eat, they watched the hanging of three bodies, two men and a child. They had to watch the light child struggle for life in the noose, watching him for half an hour up close until he died, no one wanted to see a child get hanged at an age like that. I feel that the emotions Elie is trying to communicate with us is extreme sadness and sorrow not only because of the death of the two prisoners, but because of the death of the boy. This quote to me, means that because of what he saw up close and for a half an hour, the 13 year old boy trying to cling to his life in the noose, had left a bad taste in his mouth for the soup.
Night Response Journals Response #1 “The time has come...you must all leave” (Officers page 16). At this time in Elie and his family, friends and other resident are being escorted out of the harsh ghetto. People are getting dragged out of their homes person by person, some people get to stay longer than others.
The first piece of advice about how to survive, given to Wiesel, was from a young Pole, a prisoner in charge of one of the prison blocks. After Eliezer, his father, and the rest of the selected prisoners, made the short march from Birkenau to Auschwitz. Upon arrival they were forced to shower. After the showers, they were left outside cold and wet, naked and never given the clothes they were promised. Guards came and told the prisoners they had to run, “The faster you run, the sooner you can go to bed” (page 38).
Prologue The Holocaust was a tragedy that happened in the 1940’s . It took around 11 million lives, 6 million of them being Jews. The victims of the Holocaust went through hell. They were starved, beat, and separated from their families.
Grace Trost Night by Elie Wiesel March 30, 2015 Book 1. I would've said to him,"If there really is a God then he would send mercy as it is necessary, but if there isn't then what is the point of wanting to die to escape this place because if you see death as a relief because you would be going to heaven, but if there is no God then there is no heaven to go to. You just have to hang on and believe that God will save you when the time is right. God is just testing our faith and we need to stay strong so that he will have the joy of going to heaven and being with him once this is all over.
When Wiesel said that he had ceased to feel human, he mean that he prefer to give up, to die not to feel pain anymore. Also, he means that death might be better than living at that moment, hat it would be so easy to just fall off to the side and die then there would be no more pain or misery. He wouldn’t be cold, his foot would be not hurt, he wouldn’t be hungry, tired or anything. He has seen over and over other people just… not really give up. But more… give in to death, and if it wasn’t for his dad he probably would have done it.
This quote is ironic because throughout this book we see Hitler constantly hurting the Jews. When Elie says that he has more faith in HItler than in anyone else it is ironic because Hitler is the one that started the Holocaust. He decided to invade and hurt the Jews. Hitler is the reason why he was separated from his mother and sisters. When they first arrived at the camp the woman and men were separated.
The vital aim of the Nazis was to destroy and dictate a culture. This was the central motivation behind why the Nazis plundered precious artworks during World War Two, during the time of expansion. For the most part the Nazis wanted to destroy Jewish culture through laws such as the ERR as to them, Jews were the scapegoats for any problems or issues that happened in Germany. The Nazis key motivation therefore became ‘decontaminat[ing]’ and thus ‘cleans[ing]’ and ‘purify[ing]’ Nazi Germany of any unworthy, degenerate, non-Hitler approved artworks and to a certain extent they were successful in doing so.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
Then came the ghettos.” Elie Wiesel wrote. The separation of jews started and the racism starts but nobody realizes it. “Three days later, a new decree: every jew had to wear a yellow star. Some prominent members of the community came to consult with my father, who had connections at the upper levels of the Hungarian police; they wanted to know what he thought of the situation.