Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

The system was designed to turn victim against victim, as the prisoner functionaries were pitted against their fellow prisoners in order to maintain the favor of their SS guards. Did one volunteer to become one? Did you beat other prisoners? If so you would have to beat your family and friends just to save yourself from the labor and

Are you just going to live the rest of your life in misery doing what the Nazi ’s tell you to do? Throughout Nazi rule prisoners had to obey the soldiers in concentration camps. But that doesn’t mean you can’t step out of line and show defiance. In the article “Resistance during the Holocaust”, it talks about the resistance in the Extermination Camps and how “a small number of prisoners managed to escape during the struggle” (14).

It was their chance to freedom but the killer guards was the only ones stopping them from reaching the other side. With that power in one persons head how does one stay human? “What wonder that men died, or were so miserable as to prefer instant death to that which they had seen hourly taking place, and so preferring, deliberately stepping within the dead line and looking their willing murderer in the eye, while a shot was sent crashing into a brain that was yet clear.” The will to live at the prison was low.

But no one replaced us”. This shows that the guards are being subbed in and out to watch over the prisoners but the Jews had to walk for hours without any stopping and no one could sub in for them and take a break. He describes the cold, hunger, and death that he and his fellow prisoners face every day. He also uses powerful metaphors to show the dehumanization of the Jews, such as when he writes that "the SS was no longer human beings. They were beasts with human faces, men with the morals of animals.

Events similar to crushing the former inmates shows how much each prisoner is emotionally dead. Near the end, the still-alive prisoners are at the lowest possible stage of their pride and feelings due to the pain that are inflicted upon them. By the end of the journey to Gleiwitz, affected by the horrendous actions inflicted by the Nazis, the captives kill their own comrades, and do not have feeling for their death or life, they are simply mentally

Run as if the devil was after you! Don’t look at the SS. Run, straight in front of you!” coming across this statement on the perspective of a victim who has been scared. The story exemplifies to the audience a world of Nazi propaganda and prejudice against the Jewish community through describing the inhumane activities within the concentration camp.

The officers had orders to shoot anyone who could not maintain the pace but many other Jews dropped dead during the run and the officers didn’t waste a bullet. When the SS officers were tired they were replaced. But the Jews were forced to keep

However the camp soon seems to resemble that of a concentration camp because of the way they seem to be treated. Not only do they get fed disgusting and inedible mush but other problems soon arise when they learn about how they are going to be robbed a vast amount from their wages. One of the men in the film states “a white corpse, a black corpse, it’s the same so why do they refuse to pay us?” As a result, the infantrymen decide to take the General Officer as their hostage in order to convince him to pay them their correct owed amount in full and not at a half rate.

Henceforth, the meaning of the text is that the SS officers have made the Jewish prisoners run tirelessly from camp to camp with little to no rest. In conclusion, Article 24- right top rest and leisure, was defied in the anecdote

(Night 100). While the prisoners were tired and famished, a German passer-by took pleasure in seeing them fight for food like animals. Germans viewed Jewish people like “human trash” that didn’t matter anymore because of their beliefs. Everyone was guilty of diverting and making this not their battle to fight for. Their pain was real but was looked upon as made-up and not genuine that lasted for 12

When the battle front moved close to the camp, the clearing where the Jews were fed had two cauldrons of soup. Everyone sat in the shadows unsure of whether they should take the risk, for they knew it would be suicide. One man dared challenge the status quo and ran towards the soup, but he was shot in the back and “[fell] to the ground, his face stained by the soup” (60). As the battlefront

Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog.” (Wiesel 85). This quote justifies the heartless actions of the SS men. While testing the emaciated prisoner’s endurance, without hesitation, the SS men proceeded to executing any Jewish hostage who dares to refuse

The villagers notice the executions and torture in the camp but, fearing for their lives it is clear that they do not possess the skill or willingness to help without having the Nazi’s turn their attention to them. Moreover it is easily recognizable that if

The horrifying part is when the German SS men said “For every person missing at roll-call, ten would be shot.” (Page 5 line 15-16) Many people in the camp knew this was a death journey and many of them cried. Some were drunk and some were

However, after a short period of peace and quiet, when the officials discovered that the prisoners were putting pressure on the media asking for fair trials, the prisoners ' leader Aamer, was put in the isolation cell, thing which led to another hunger strike. This time the hunger strike was so severe that many inmates were force fed in what the prisoners ' lawyers denounce as inhumane: "the feeding tubes, which were "the thickness of a finger," were regarded as objects of torture. She reported that they were forcibly shoved up the prisoners ' noses without anesthetic or sedatives being provided, and that this resulted in prisoners "vomiting up substantial amounts of blood," but added that when they did so, "the soldiers mocked and cursed at them,and taunted them with statements like 'look what your religion has brought you '" (qtd in Worthington 275). Here we clearly see how force feeding can become torture, and how it can denigrate human