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Is it not perplexing to think about what the Holocaust was like? Elie Wiesel knows from first hand experience. He survived in a concentration camp and was freed by American troops after about a year. Wiesel recounted his experiences in his memoir Night. Students should continue to read Night because the anecdote shows what the Holocaust was like, it shows many of the historical events of World War II as they relate to the concentration camps and many important aspects of Jewish culture.

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Night By Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928 (Gradesaver.com). Prior to being taken under the Nazi's rule, he decided to pursue Religious studies, as his father did. He grew up with his parents and three sisters. In the year 1944, when Elie was 15 years old, Nazi's took over Sighet and a few other areas, and transported the people to concentration camps in Poland. Millions of Jews were killed, and on April 10, 1945, Elie was in the camp of Buchenwald when freedom became present.

The book night is about the author Elie Wiesel’s experiences in concentration camps all around Europe. The camps were Auschwitz, where he was first deported on May of 1944 with his father, mother, and his sister. He stayed there for 8 months before being liberated on January 27, 1945. He also stayed at Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald throughout the year. The book consists of memories of Wiesel’s time in the camps, and how it’s affected him in his life today.

“Night” “Dehumanization although a concrete historical fact, is not given destiny but the result of an unjust order than engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed” - Paulo Freire. “Night” by Elie Wiesel was originally published in 1956. “Night” is an autobiographical novel teaching its readers about Elie's tragic experiences while enduring th3e Holocaust. In the book “Night” there were many points where Nazis would dehumanize the Jews. Jews suffered from starvation, were beat on the daily, robbed of their rights and possessions, separated from their family, controlled and eventually murdered.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night he and many of the other prisoners felt victimized by the guards and their use of power over them. One example of abuse and dehumanization is Franek, the foreman. He noticed that Elie had a gold crown in his mouth, Franek wanted it. When told to give it to him, Elie said no, so Franek started harassing and abusing Elie’s father. Elie’s father was unable to march in step, which caused a problem for him because everywhere they went it was in step, “This presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely.

Elie Wiesel is a very significant man for surviving three horrendous Nazi concentration camps. He describes theses terrifying times in his novel Night. Elie describes in his novel go against human rights and deprives humans of their basic needs to survive. In the universal declaration of human rights there are 30 articles that describe are basic rights as human and all of these rights were broken in novel Night. The new york times describes the novel as “A slim volume of terrifying power.”

What does Eliezer mean when he writes that he feels free after his father’s death? IS he free of responsibility? Or is he free to go under, to drift into death? He writes that he feels free from responsibility because he doesn 't have to worry about taking care of his father.

In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.

Night is unforgettable there are many violated Universal human rights in the book. Elie Wiesel is the author of Night. “Night” is about Elies family being taken to a concentration camp, where they are separated along with the other Jews. Elie goes with his father while his sisters go with his mother. Elie faces many hardships at the concentration camps internally and externally.

The best way to summarize the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, is to use the word “humanity” because of the way that Ellie struggles to preserve his own humanity as he experiences death camp, Auschwitz. Humanity is best defined as “the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence.” Throughout Night, Elie display’s and contrasts how humanity and inhumanity are both key elements at the camp. This is the most effective way to summarize Night, for a multitude of reasons. Elie’s choices to include stories about the young boy’s hanging, his own father’s death, and the young boy who runs away from his father, are great examples of why humanity is one of the key principles in the book.

Night has revealed to me the immensity of the suffering and ruthlessness that Jews were subjected to on daily basis during the holocaust in an emotional and moving first-hand experience. I choose a train, symbol of oppression, to represent the initial separation from a normal life in which everyone inside the crowded train car received, along with a taste of the pain and suffering that was soon to be forced upon them. I choose this quote to show how shocking mentally and physically the transition phase was from a normal life to that of the oppressed and to emphasize how easily he gave up in the beginning. Despite this, he managed to persevere and overcome the enormous challenges of surviving in a concentration camp.

To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.

I learned a lot of new information while reading Night, there were many things I didn’t know about the Holocaust before that I know about now. I never knew much about the conditions of the camps or how the people were treated there, I just knew that they were dreadful places. Now I can have an image of the camps in my head, what it looked like for the people who had to live in these horrendous camps. They committed so many execrable acts on people, they performed experiments on people, murdered whoever they wanted, starved people and many more gruesome things. I didn’t realize how bad the conditions really were and how badly the people were treated.

The Night is always Darkest before the Dawn, this simple quote by English Theologian Thomas Fuller captures both the spiritual and also the literal connections to Elie Wiesel's memoir “Night”. Elie’s memoir focus’ on the horror of German Concentration camps and how being in has forever impacted him, each experience whether it be one of death, confusion, or despair masked his desire and ambitions. This theme was repeated many times throughout Elie’s memoir; when he first arrived at Birkenau, how the Gestapo treated the Jews, travel conditions during Jewish transfers, relationships between Jewish inmates, and many other heart-wrenching horrors,which he had witnessed and experienced. However he also talked about night and fire, which both hold significance to the Jews, who during their flight from Pharaoh, during 3rd and 2nd Century BC, followed the flame of fire by night and cloud by day, “... And the Lord went before them