The memoir Night, written by Elie Wiesel, recalls the horrific memories of fifteen-year-old Wiesel as he lives through World War ll and the Holocaust. During World War ll Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party and a German politician, ordered the round up of ethnic and religious groups of people who he disapproved of, thus creating the Holocaust. Hitler blamed the Jews for the downfall of the German government and economy after World War l, he also used scare tactics, herd mentality, and built on people's fear to establish resentful feelings towards these groups of people. Throughout this period of time, approximately thirteen and a half million people were killed under his order, the main groups being Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, Serbian …show more content…
After being extracted from society, these people were placed in work or concentration camps. The work camps were built to be death camps in which people were forced into extreme work environments and long hours that would result in death. People who were sent to concentration camps were also placed into environments with harsh setting and would be eventually sent to mass shootings or gas chambers.
Adolf Hitler, in the early stages of his empowerment and rise to success, would place hired men in the crowds at his rallies dressed as a regular citizen. When the men would salute, others standing around them would see this and think it was what they should be doing, and soon everyone everyone would realize that the others were supporting the nazi salute and use it themselves. Since most of these events were televised, many across Germany and Europe saw this and began supporting Hitler and the Nazi party. Hitler recognized that the German government was crumbling and the public wanted someone who could
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Hitler ordered that sections of cities be cleared and emptied and that ghettos be created for the undesirables. Many Jews lived in the ghettos for months before police and Nazi soldiers came to transport them to the camps. During raids of homes priceless family belongings were taken, including paintings, furniture, jewelry, and silver. Upon arrival women and men were split and if someone was not strong enough to work or was of no importance they would be sent to the crematoria to be burned alive. The surviving would be sent to cramped buildings where they would sleep if given the space. Food and water were limited, men and women would lose weight rapidly with the lack nutrition, and they would began to look like living skeletons, only skin and bone. Due to the lack of room, Infection and disease would spread like a wildfire. In these conditions, a paper cut or a common cold would kill someone. Diseases like typhus, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis were commonly found in the concentration and work camps. Out on the battlefield, disease like those spread quickly from one soldier to another. Doctors used patients to experiment the spread of the illness and different ways to prevent them, these experiments often ended with the patient dead. Supporters of Hitler believed these people were undesirable and deserved no remorse, that they should be treated like beasts. The Jews and
Being confined in a concentration camp was beyond unpleasant. Mortality encumbered the prisons effortlessly. Every day was a struggle for food, survival, and sanity. Fear of being led into the gas chambers or lined up for shooting was a constant. Hard labor and inadequate amounts of rest and nutrition took a toll on prisoners. They also endured beatings from members of the SS, or they were forced to watch the killings of others. “I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” (Night Quotes). Small, infrequent, rations of a broth like soup left bodies to perish which in return left no energy for labor. If one wasn’t killed by starvation or exhaustion they were murdered by fellow detainees. It was a survival of the fittest between the Jews. Death seemed to be inevitable, for there were emaciated corpses lying around and the smell...
Night by Elie Wiesel was a memoir on one of the worst things to happen in human history, the Holocaust. A terrible time where the Nazi German empire started to take control of eastern Europe during WWII. This book tells of the terrible things that happened to the many Jewish people of that time. This time could easily change grown men, and just as easily a boy of 13. Elie’s relationship with God and his father have been changed forever thanks to the many atrocities committed at that time.
So as the morning Sun rose. The light beamed on Christopher's face. The warmth of the sun welcomed him to a new day and woke up in a small house in Los Angeles. Christopher is a tall, male, that loves technology and video games. He stretched and went to the restroom it was 9 o'clock and he was thankful it was spring break and didn’t have to go to school. Christopher made his way to the kitchen trying not wake up his parents and made himself breakfast. He served himself cereal Honey Bunches of Oats to be exact with almond milk. Then he took a shower and watched some YouTube videos before doing his homework.
It is reported that over 6 million Jews were brutally murdered in the Holocaust, but there were a very few who were able to reach the liberation, and escape alive. There were many important events that occurred in Elie Wiesel’s Night, and for each and every event, I was equally, if not more disturbed than the one before. The first extremely disturbing event became a reality when Eliezer comprehended that there were trucks filled with babies that the Nazi’s were throwing the children into the crematorium. Unfortunately, the sad truth of the murdering babies was clearly presented through, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there, […] babies”, (Wiesel, Night, 32). This was one of the most disturbing events of the narrative for myself and truly explained the cruelty and torture of the Holocaust.
The significance of night throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel shows a poignant view into the daily life of Jews throughout the concentration camps. Eliezer describes each day as if there was not any sunshine to give them hope of a new day. He used the night to symbolize the darkness and eeriness that were brought upon every Jew who continued to survive each day in the concentration camps. However, night was used as an escape from the torture Eliezer and his father had to endure from the Kapos who controlled their barracks. Nevertheless, night plays a developmental role of Elie throughout he novel.
Book Report on Elie Wiesel's Night. Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle.
As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.
Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said, “There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times.” The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events in the history of mankind, consisting of the genocide of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally handicapped and many others during World War II. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany, and his army of Nazis and SS troops carried out the terrible proceedings of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps, and suffers a relentless “night” of terror and torture in which humans were treated as animals. Wiesel discovers the “Kingdom of Night” (118), in which the history of the Jewish people is altered.
Auschwitz is the most notorious concentration camp for causing the most grief and destruction. Elie Wiesel was just 15 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz. He lived a very devout life and his parents owned a grocery store, he lived in a virtual fairy tale. He was surrounded by family and happiness… life was finally taking a turn for the better. Protected by his naivety and ignorance, he had yet to know the cruelty of life and the uncertainty of his faith. Like a lamb led to the slaughter Elie Wiesel went through the terrors of the Holocaust and has survived to tell the story of his experience. He is impacting people all over the world through his books, achievements, and unrelenting faith.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.
A large amount of people went to extermination camps, where they would eventually be killed. The most effective way for the Nazis to get rid of large amounts of people was to use gas chambers. People would be told they were being taken to shower and deadly gas would come out of the shower heads instead of water. When the killing was done, the bodies would be burned in crematoriums that could dispose over four thousand corpses a day.
Hitler became chancellor of Germany and he did not like the Jewish people so he made death camps or most commonly known as concentration camps and him and his followers killed about 5,860,129 Jewish people.The Jewish people thrived at a population of approximately 9,796,840 million before the Holocaust. After the Holocaust there about 3,936,711 left. It was a terrible time for the Jewish people.Most people were killed in death camps or concentration camps.The camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, etc. There was also Einsatzgruppe a mobile killing squads that when around and murdered Jewish people. The prisoners in concentration camps were jews, gypsies, socialists, and homosexuals. There were 20,000 of these camps built and used during the holocaust. When Hitler became chancellor and the Nazis became in charge the Sturmabteilung ,Schutzstaffel , police, and local authorities built these camps so they could incarcerate opponents. The Schutzstaffel established bigger camps in Berlin, Munich, and Saxony. In 1934 the Schutzstaffel was the only organization that could establish and manage these concentration camps. Lichtenburg was an all female camp only.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it talks about the holocaust and what it was like being in it. The Germans were trying to make the German race the supreme race. To do this they were going to kill off everyone that wasn’t a German. If you were Jewish or something other than German, you would have been sent to a concentration camp and segregated by men and women. If you weren’t strong enough you were sent to the crematory to be cremated. If you were strong enough you were sent to work at a labor camp. With all the warnings the Jewish people had numerous chances to run from the Germans, but most ignored the warnings.
First, there were many types of different workers. In the camps there were security, police, and commander of the detention facilities. Also, there were male and female guards and wardens that were often criminals from the German prison. There were camp hospitals that were run by a doctor with several medical assistances. Secondly, they had a certain way of dehumanizing and separating people. When people had arrived at the camps they would be dehumanized so they would have their head shaved and had their clothes taken away and given a uniform. They would also take away any remnants of human dignity or personal identity. In some camps they were tattooed with a registration number. In camps they separated people. People that were over the age of 14 were “fit for work” and were sent to one side of the loading ramp. Children and women and elderly were condemned to death in the gas chambers. In some camps people were tagged with a different color triangles that told why these people were put in the camp. Green meant they were a criminal, red meant they were a political prisoner, pink meant they were a homosexual, purple meant they were Jehovah Witness, black meant they were an asocial. Lastly, they had a special daily routine they had to follow everyday.Waking up early, the prisoners would start their day., next they would call 2,000 prisoners at a time and they would have to share the toilet facilities. After