Unimaginable Horrors In Night By Elie Wiesel

As some thought that life was harsh in these environments, they were not prepared for what was coming. As the SS hauled people onto cattle cars, the officers kept the secret that their prisoners were being transported to their death. From there on, the Jews were treated like objects rather than people. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, we learn the harrowing truth of the Nazi’s actions to dehumanize

To commence, the people in power use authority to exploit their ‘captives’. In Night, Wiesel vividly describes the unfamiliarity of Auschwitz as he first arrives. The SS guards take this to their advantage by lying to

Brothers from sisters, husbands from wives, the Nazis tore apart hundreds of families. They were herded like animals onto trains going to the concentration camps. Packed in small areas with hardly enough room to breathe. Elie was separated from his sisters and his mother in the ghetto. This came without warning, and was only the beginning of the inhumanities Elie would experience.

There were huge pits of fire, and small children, the old, the unhealthy and anyone who the Germans did not think would be useful to work for their benefit, were thrown in and burned alive. Men and women were separated, and most never saw each other again. A man of high authority, known as Dr. Mengele was standing before Elie along with the rest of the Jews. holding a conductor's baton. We formed a line, Mengele asked each of us a variety of questions, and would then point the baton to the left or right.

Night is the story that tells a part of Elie Wiesel’s life, the part where he and his family, along his fellow Jews were terrorized, humiliated, and dehumanized. In this novel author Elie Wiesel documented the horrible and gruesome happenings of the holocaust. It was 1944 when he and his family were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, from there on Elie never saw his mother and sister ever again, lost his innocence. At that time all Jews were being brutalized by the Nazis, they were being treated as if they weren’t humans, as if they were animals and as if they didn’t have feelings whatsoever. The Nazis would take away their most precious belongings and separate families.

When thinking about the challenges imposed at the concentration camps, most would assume the labor, treatment, and living conditions, but Wiesel’s story unravels other elements. Throughout his story, Wiesel reveals that family and cruel treatment have a crucial effect on one’s resilience. Throughout the story Night, Wiesel displays how family has impacted the resilience of those around him. At the beginning of his and his father’s time in the concentration camps, a young Pole gives them advice crucial to their survival, stating, “And now, here is a prayer, or rather a piece of advice: let there be camaraderie among you.

Elie and his family arrive at their first concentration camp, Auschwitz. When they arrived, Elie was immediately separated from his mother and his sister. In the book it says, “NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night

Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is an emotional memoir about his personal experience with the Holocaust, a mass genocide of European Jews, children included, during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and it's collaborators systematically slaughtered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out through mass shootings and gas chambers in labor and concentration camps. Throughout the story Elie Wiesel used imagery, pathos, and symbolism to convey human kind's capacity for cruelty. Wiesel's use of imagery is particularly powerful in conveying the brutality of the concentration camps and the atrocities committed against the Jewish prisoners, painting a picture of the unimaginable

In Night, when Elie and the other prisoners were being transported to Auschwitz, young men beat and gagged a woman for screaming about fire and flames. Elie writes, “She is hallucinating because she is thirsty, poor woman…” (Wiesel 25). The cart ride was long and the prisoners were dehydrated and starving. The people in the cart thought the lady was crazy, screaming of death and fire.

Overall, this passage provides compelling evidence of the extreme suffering and dehumanization experienced by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. It also underscores the resilience and resourcefulness of those who were able to find small moments of humor or irony amidst such profound

(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

After they reached Auschwitz, the young worked in the factories and the old and the sick worked in the fields. Later that night the train pulled into Birkenau. They then saw the flames and the air smelled of burning flesh. A quote to support the humanity loss in this scene is “The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us. Yet all that was nothing compared to her screams, which tore us apart” (Wiesel, pg

This act from the Nazis showed the sheer power they had over everyone. They were now starting to realize they had nothing they

The book ‘Night’ tells the story of Elie Wiesel and how he survived the terrifying and cruel holocaust. The novel featured many themes including, family, religion, mortality, atrocities and cruel treatment. Elie was able to discover the way that the atrocities and cruel treatments were able to turn people in to brutes. Fortunately, Elie did not become a brute, this is because of, the way he cared and nurtured for his father, the way Elie directed his anger towards god and not towards other people in the camp, and the way Elie lost his emotions at the time of the liberation. Elie cared for his father all the way until the end when his father was taken away.

The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is about how Elie and his father’s experience in the concentrations and how they survived the Holocaust. He tells us how everyone was treated, what they ate, how they slept, what he seen, how people acted, and how things worked inside the camp. He mainly talks about his experiences from start to finish. The men started out lively and faithful but ending up losing all faith.