In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie, his family, and his mentality were torn apart by the terrorism of the Germans. The happiness and peace once flourishing in the Wiesel home was taken away, policy by policy; until nothing was left except Elie himself, alone on a cold bunk in a concentration camp. Wiesel grew up a devout Jew in Romania in the 1940s, in a family of six. Elie’s daily activities included studying Jewish scripture with his teacher Moishe the Beadle, and helping his parents with chores. Elie’s peaceful life was devoid of doubts of faith and God. However, the policies enforced by the German Nazis destroy his physical and mental soundness. In the beginning of the story, the first policy was instituted. All Jewish people would have to …show more content…
All Jews would be deported to Hungary, Poland, and other countries; however, they did not know they were being sent to death and labor in concentration camps. In Wiesel’s situation, he had to discard of all of his belongings, he’d never see them again. The ride to the concentration camps was torture for all of the passengers. The deportees were so tightly packed they could not move. There was no food or water provided, this caused many deaths. Disease and sickness also spread. Elie Wiesel did not subject to illness; however, “...we began to be tortured by thirst. Then the heat became unbearable,” (21). The heat and lack of necessities weakened Elie. After surviving the train ride, Elie and his family arrived at a concentration camp. This was the last time Elie and his father would see his mother and his younger sister. Throughout Elie’s time at the concentration camp he is beaten, operated on, had his tooth pulled out, almost starved and froze to death, and suffered many other terrible deeds. In this passage it portrays Wiesel as he was whipped, “I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip...Two more I thought, half conscious,” (55). Although Wiesel survived the whipping, his father died at the camp Buna after being beaten to death by SS officers. Wiesel was now completely alone, even his God was gone. Elie now had his God murdered right in front of
Elie’s treatment inside and outside of the concentration camp were inadequate as they were abused, ignored, and mistreated. One example is when a Kapo whipped Eliezer to make sure he kept
The concentration camp is in Poland. He was starved and badly treated.” Elie was sent to the camp and was starved. He was treated poorly and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to camp by the Nazis. At a young age Wiesel was sent to camp; he had to
Plot: Elie Wiesel lived with his younger sister and parents in a small town during the period of World War Two. Where they were Jewish their fear of the German reaching them grew steadily until the German tanks rolled through their streets. Where the officers were nice, that did not stop them from setting up the ghetto’s in town square: “The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion” (12). Soon Wiesel found himself on a train to Auschwitz, where he was separated from his mother and sister, forced along with his father to join the other men at their camp. To work or to be burned, Elie and his father struggled to stay alive, on their rations of bread, but keeping fit enough to survive the test the leaders put on them.
Elie Wiesel had an interesting story, he felt the need to tell. At the age of 15, was sent to a concentration camp. Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, with his father where they were forced to work under deplorable, inhumane conditions. They were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust.
In May 1944, Nazi Germany, with Hungary’s agreement, forced Jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel was later sent to Buna Werke labor camp, a subcamp of Auschwitz III - Monowitz, with his father where they were forced to work in deplorable, un-human conditions. They, again, were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beat to death by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust.
Night Essay Prompt In the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he recalls his past experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. The book brings out some of the most horrifying and depressing moments that took place during the Holocaust. The Nazi’s would “dehumanize” the Jews by taking away their identities their belongings, and putting them in concentration camps. In order to control the Jews and force them into concentration camps, the Nazi’s would beat the Jews, threaten them, and use the fear of death against them.
He disregards the warnings about the Nazis coming (12). Instead of listening, he still decides to stay in Sighet because he said that he was “too old” (9). Before being taken to the concentration camps, he still does not want to hide and is fabricating excuses
While Elie Wiesel was relatively fine, considering the fact that he had gone days without any food or water, his father had been too exhausted to even take a hot shower, something they had not done for over a week. Instead, he chose to lie down in the snow, even though he had warned his son against doing exactly that a few days before. This camp was the same one where Wiesel’s father eventually died from dysentery,
Night Essay Elie Wiesel the author of “Night” was born on September 30, 1928 in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania. He lived most of his life studying Judaism, until the Germans came into their town and took all of the Jews to be sent to concentration camps. He was forced to watch his fellow people suffer through unspeakable terrors, while he had to try to survive alongside them. He also had to lose many close loved ones, without knowing where they would go or if he'd ever see them again.
During his period in the concentration camps, Elie is paired with his dad and separated from the rest of his family; enduring deprivations such as: friends, survival, and presence of faith in God. Although faith can be exhibited through prayer, fasting, and keeping every part of life holy; dedicated to God, some prayers may not be answered directly or if it is meaningless until Judgement Day. In conclusion, faith; especially in God, is the fastest way to redemption; even if they die before receiving their outcome, God sees their heart and can liberate you from a sinful society. Elie Wiesel is a 12 year-old Jewish boy, who was deported by the Nazis and forced to work in concentration camps for more than six years. After being separated from his mother and three
Were the Jews aware of what was about to happen to them? Imagine living with the fear that any day your house, your belongings, your family, and your life could all be ripped away from you. The people of Wiesel’s community couldn’t even imagine that. They had know that the Germans were not good to their people, but they had no idea of how terrible their situation
People would be stripped from their clothes and shoes and washed like dirty dogs. They would beat you if you did not do what they wanted you to do. Officers and medical workers at Auschwitz would take your items, even a small little gold crown from your teeth. The people who ran the concentration camp even would make you pick up the burnt bodies of your own kind, they did not even care if it was a loved one. Since Jews were treated in this dehumanizing manner, of course, it caused them to have died not just by being burnt or suffocated by gas, but by sickness and disease, and starvation.
Night Essay By Shaynna For a young child, one of the most difficult duties to deal with is the separation from the people and objects they know and care about, such as their home, friends and family. This can be seen all over the world, weather its a young adult moving away from home, or the loss of a family member many people struggle with change and separation. The key to getting through these situations is to believe that as an individual they have the courage to get through it.
Once the Jewish people reached the concentration camps, they were typically immediately separated by gender. Women and girls were almost always immediately executed, and boys and men would then go through a “selection” process, where the old, sick, and disabled–those who would be unable to work–were separated from their peers (“Auschwitz”). Wiesel had left his mother and sisters soon after arriving in Auschwitz “in a fraction of a second” with “no time to think” and continued onward with his father in disarray and confusion (29). Those selected to be unfit for work would be killed by being gassed, shot, or thrown into a crematorium to be burned. After witnessing human beings, notably babies, being sent to the crematorium, Wiesel “felt anger rising within”
Elie was held captive in concentration camps from 1944-1945. During his time in the concentration camps, he became grateful for what he had, overcame countless obstacles, and more importantly kept fighting until he was free. [The Holocaust is very important to learn about because it can teach you some important life lessons.] You should always be grateful for what you have, no matter what the circumstances are. This lesson can be learned when Elie says, “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more”(109).