After Elie Wiesel and his family neglect to flee the Jewish town of Sighet, Transylvania back in 1944, they start to experience the very brutality of what is today known as the “Holocaust.” They were taken from their homes, stripped of their valuables, and severely tortured beyond human limits. In this dark story, the reader can experience pain and suffering like they have never experienced it before by looking through the eyes of the young Elie Wiesel. For a person to endure as much suffering as Elie did, they would have to be very strong. They would have to have very strong morals, and have something very important to fight for. People suffer everyday, whether it be lightly or heavily. However, it all is the same. In the story “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he utilizes the concepts of comradeship, love,…
Elie and his father march to Gleiwitz and are crammed into barracks. They are soon crowded into cattle cars of 100. Fights broke out over pieces of bread that were thrown into the cars by Germans. Those who died were thrown off the train. Only twelve remained in Elie’s car when he and his father arrived at Buchenwald.…
Number: This symbolizes your identity in the concentration camps, it is what defines your fate.…
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, both the german SS soldiers and their fellow Jews act in a variety of ways to dehumanize those laced into the concentration camps.…
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel he talks about what he’s been through. He also writes about his struggles and what he has suffered through when he was under Nazi control. The Nazis didn’t care one bit if the Jews died and didn’t stop once to realize that what they were doing was very wrong and crucial. In the Galician forest, near Kolomay the Gestapo forced the Jews to dig huge trenches and when they had finished their work the Gestapo shot the Jewish prisoners into the huge trenches without passion or haste (Wiesel 6). The Jews fell into to the huge bloody trenches and those who didn’t die straight away after being shot would be left to bleed out and slowly die in the pit (6). Jewish people needed to live the Holocaust but the crucial Nazis…
In the holocaust, the Nazis severely dehumanized the Jewish people and made them to be lesser people. In the novel Night, in Eliezer’s town all was tranquil, until the Nazis arrived and completely changed his life and the lives of the other Jews in his town. In the launch of the invasion by the Nazis, they had not bothered to identify which individuals were Jews by their name, but the Jews were required to wear a Jewish star to be easily identifiable, dehumanizing them. In addition, the Nazis made the Jews gather outside in a large, orderly fashion. This triggered Eliezer to utter a statement that,” there no longer was any distinction between rich and poor, notables and the others; we were all people condemned to the same fate still unknown.”…
The autobiographical novel ‘Night’ which was first published in 1958 is a story of the real traumatic experiences that those of a Jewish descent encountered during the Holocaust in 1944. The author, Elie Wiesel conveys a powerful memoir of inhumanity, death and loss of faith to the reader. Throughout the novel the protagonist endures extreme and brutal circumstances which causes him to lose faith in god. The inhumanity and dehumanization acts Elie experiences causes him to feel mentally dead inside…
During world war II, the people known as, Jews, were targeted for deportation to concentration camps and execution. The term, “Inhumanity” was expressed in many different ways during this period of time. Inhumanity can scar people emotionally and mentally. Inhumane people tend to act very cruel towards other people, animals, and the environment. In the story, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there were many merciless examples of how inhumanity was shown during World War II.…
In reaction to the book Night by Elie Wiesel I can truly say that I am shocked and appalled by the fact that the Nazi guards got away with committing such atrocities to their Jewish prisoners such as what they did in this book. In the book the Nazi guards dehumanized their Jewish prisoners by both taking away their rights as human beings, and by treating them like animals.…
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the protagonist Eliezer enters a spiritual struggle to maintain faith, not only in God but in humanity. Turned upside down, his world no longer makes sense. He becomes disillusioned through his experience of Nazi cruelty, but even more so by the inexplicable cruelty that fellow prisoners inflict upon each other. Eliezer is appalled by the human depth of depravity and capacity for evil, his own included. Within the story there seems to be an emphasis on how inhumanity begets inhumanity. Seeing the Jews as inhuman, the Nazis cruelly treat them as animals, in turn producing cruel and animalistic behavior among the prisoners.…
“Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?” –Elie Wiesel. One of the most prominent themes in the novel Night is the topic of dehumanization. Throughout the Holocaust the Jews suffered the act of dehumanization, or being deprived humane treatment. From the beginning the Jews were forced to endure the horrible conditions of the Ghettos. They were killed by the thousands in the gas chambers. And some even faced wrath of Dr. Mengele and his torturous experiments.…
Amongst the many events that the world has captured in history books, the holocaust is one that is recognized by almost everyone. The Holocaust was a controlled, state financed torture and killing of roughly six million Jews by the Nazi government led by Adolf Hitler. While many Jews died in the concentration camps, there are some who made it out alive and told their story. Their witness accounts contribute information the world needs to understand what really took place in Germany and the concentration camps. Author, Elie Wiesel, voices his time in the Nazi concentration camps, in his autobiographical novel, Night. Throughout the story, Wiesel physically, mentally, and spiritually changes due to the horrific events of the holocaust.…
In Hitler`s concentration camps the Jews were abused, starved and freezing. People who had power in the camps were the strongest. They could beat whoever and whenever they wanted to. Once Elie cross the path of Idek while he was nervous and he started hitting him so hard, “He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent bows, until I was covered in blood” (Wiesel, 53). This quote shows us how unfair was life in those camps to the people that didn`t have power. The powerful ones were hitting the people so hard and they did not care about them. During the winter the Jews were freezing because they didn’t have such things as blankets, gloves and hats. While Elie was going to Buchenwald camp he said “We were nothing but frozen bodies” (Wiesel, 100). In this quote Elie Wiesel literally describes himself and his others fellows as nothing more but “frozen bodies”. They didn`t receive any food and ate only snow. During the night they were lying on top of each other just so they don`t freeze so fast. Another cause of a physical change is malnutrition. Their food was insufficient and all of the people lost a lot of weight. A few days after the liberation of…
When the Germans captured Jew’s they would either use them as slaves or put them in a gas room,where they would die. You could be a child, woman, or a man and they would still persecute or kill you. This lasted for many years, then Hitler said his last words which ended the Holocaust. This was found from the website www.history.com. “In his last will and political testament, dictated in a German bunker that April 29, Hitler blamed the war on ‘International Jewry and its helpers’ and urged the German leaders and people to follow ‘the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples’–the Jews. The following day, he committed suicide. Germany’s formal surrender in World War II came barely a week later, on May 8, 1945.” There was one man who saved many Jewish lives. His name was Oskar Schindler. He would gives Jews jobs or have them work as slaves, but he would treat them with kindness and not be torturous. After the war, there was estimated to be about 5 million Jews that…
Another system of persecution that the Nazis used to implement the Holocaust was working. They would work their prisoners basically to death. Prisoners would get little to no food at all, therefore making it physically impossible to function well. Some would come down with terrible, terrible sicknesses. Despite…