Brady Ravin
Mrs. Ramsey
English
January 31st, 2023
The Horrors of the Holocaust Six million, the estimated number of Jewish people that died during the holocaust. Each one of them led their own life, each one of them was a person just like anyone else, and each one of them witnessed countless horrific sights. All of these deaths and horrors were avoidable. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel is a first person account of what the experience in a concentration camp was like. He and a man by the name of Rudolf Acohen will be the focus of this essay, but they are not the only ones who suffered; millions upon millions of people suffered through the horrors of the holocaust. These two’s stories will be compared and contrasted to prove the point that, speaking out against injustice is absolutely necessary because millions of innocent lives were lost, millions of innocent people were torchered and many, likely the majority of people didn’t speak out, and did not fight back, letting the oppressors run rampant and do whatever they pleased.
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Rudolf Acohen was born June 4th, 1922 to a Jewish family of Spanish descent in Amsterdam. Elie Wiesel on the other hand was born September 30th, 1928. He was also born to a Jewish family but in Sighet, Transylvania. “Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania”. Both Elie Wiesel and Rudolf Acohen had very normal childhoods. Rudolf and his friends loved listening to classical music and Frank Sinatra. They also loved going on bike rides, one of which lasted several days. Although Elie Wiesel does not write much about his childhood before the events of the holocaust it is known that he had 3 siblings, 2 older sisters, and one younger. It is also known that he studied Kabbalah which is a part of Judaism; he had to study it without his father because his father believed him to be too young to learn
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.
Elie wiesel was born on September 30, 1928. He grew up with three sisters. He had religion studies at a nearby Yeshiva. He was influenced to have that belief by his grandfather and mother. He also believed in his father’s liberal judaism.
He was born after his two older sisters, and had one younger sibling (also a sister). During his childhood, Wiesel lived in a Hasidic community (Hasidism is an orthodox branch of Judaism). According to FamousPeople.com his studies revolved around religion, but his father, Shlomo, also encouraged him to read literature. His mother Sarah also wanted him to learn the Torah and the Kabbalah. Wiesel spoke Yiddish at home, but also speaks Hungarian, Romanian, and German.
In the book the night by Elie Wiesel, He recounts the horrors that happened during the Holocaust. This happened in the time periods of 1933 and 1945. At the time of 1933 and 1945 a kid named Elle had to learn to become an adult at such a young age. And his fellow jews were taken to camps in cattle cars. The book describes the horrible things that happened to them on the way there and at the camps.
Elie wiesel was born september 30 1928, He was a basic jewish child. He grew up in a small village in romania. His world was centered around his family, god and his religion. All of this was nearly destroyed in the years to come in his lifetime. .His
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author describes his personal experience of the Holocaust from his teenage years to his liberation from one of the most horrific concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The book is a haunting depiction of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, bringing to light the horrors of the Holocaust and the inhumane treatment of its victims. The book begins with Wiesel’s life in a small village in Transylvania, where he and his family are forced to move into a ghetto after the Nazis invade. The author narrates the brutal and dehumanizing conditions of life in the ghetto – lack of food, water, and sanitation, overcrowding, and disease.
Alfred Münzer was born on November 23rd, 1941 in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In the summer of 1942, when he was a year old, his father received summons for work duty, which entailed going to a camp. In response to this Alfred's family decided it would be best for the family to separate and hide, as it would give their children a chance to survive even if they were to be found. Alfred’s parents found refuge in a psychiatric hospital, his father as a patient, and his mother as a nurse, where, on December 31st, 1942, New Year’s Eve, all 250 hiding patients were arrested by the Nazis. Alfred’s sisters would follow suit after being shifted through multiple homes, and would consequently perish after being given up to the Nazis.
There were over 23 concentration camps that killed Jews over the course of the Holocaust, Over 6 million Jews died. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel he shares his traumatic experience during the holocaust and how he and his dad navigated concentration camps. In comparison Anne Frank's “The diary of a young girl” talks about how she and her family had a safe place to hide while others were dying. In both books we can see that the main character's environment shapes their behaviors and beliefs, Even though both characters went through the holocaust differently they were still both highly affected.
To begin, we will start with the story of Elie Wiesel. He was a young Jewish boy from Transylvania in Hungary. He was strong in his faith and he wanted to dive into the mysticism of it. At the age of 15, he and his family were shuttled by train to Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. This started a stage of disbelief and loneliness for Elie.
After being hit by a car he decided to concentrate on writing about his experiences of the Holocaust and how his faith has grown. Wiesel was born in Sighet, September 30, 1928, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His parents, Shlomo and Sarah, owned a grocery store in the village. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister, Tsiporah, him being the only boy. He began attending Jewish school at the age of three, where he learned Hebrew, the Bible, and eventually Talmud.
Wiesel reflects that though his somewhat poor childhood he found great richness in his religion. His family taught him his values of caring for others however also led him to be a rather lonely child who found solace in reading and learning more and more of Judaism. One family member who greatly impacted Wiesels life what his grandfather Dodye Feig. Feig was a Hasidic Jew who believed that piety should be placed over knowledge in seeking to become close to God. Feigs presence in Wiesels life led him to believe the Hasidic approach that love and kindness to god and to others is key in knowing god.
Indifference Kills ADL’s Pyramid of Hate states how every genocide that has ever happened on earth will always start with a biased attitude towards a group of people. This biased attitude leads to acts of discrimination, dehumanization, this is followed by, extreme systemic discrimination, then bias motivates violence and finally genocide. Another aspect that most people forget when a genocide happens is the response from the rest of the world. To show what happens when societies disregard their obligation to help each other we can see from Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's first hand accounts about living through the fascist Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel was interested in different types of Judaism, especially Cabala. So, at nights he was taught by a poor man that worked in the church, Moishe the Beadle. At that time in his life, when he was experiencing life and the different religions he was 15 years old. And that was the age when his adolescence and youth was ripped from his grip and he was thrown into something much bigger than he could imagine.
Imagine losing everything that you once had, your friends, family, all of your possessions, and everything else that once belonged to you. This is what happened to Elie Wiesel when his family was taken from him during the Holocaust. Wiesel lived in a small religious town. He was sent to Auschwitz and then sent to Buchenwald for his religion (Jewish). A little while after the war, he moved to France and then to the United States to become a professor at Boston University.
Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.