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Elie Wiesel Night Night by Elie Wiesel, on May 4, 1994 - April 10, 1995 Elie Wiesel who was 15 years old was forced out of his home by the Hungarian police in the town of Sighet, Romania. Elie was sent to one of the many concentration camps set up by Hitler and the Nazis in Auschwitz and Buchenwald where he survived the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel's mental, physical and spiritual aspects of life changed from living in Sighet, then living in the concentration camps to liberation. Elie Wiesel's mental and physical health when he was living in his hometown of Sighet, Romania was normal to him. “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple” (page 3).Well his spirituality was strong at …show more content…

Elie Wiesel's mentality when he was first sent to Auschwitz was to stay with his family. Until he and his sisters and mother and father split up, Elie was sent with his father. He then knew he would say or do anything to not be separated from his father. This is when Elie and his father's physical health was fine. This was also when he started to question his faith in God. “Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night,including Sabbath and the holy days? Because in his great might, he had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?” (page 67). Well being in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps all they thought about was how to survive, or when the next rations of soup and bread were. After some time from being in the camps, they were beaten and starved and always forced to march. If they were to do anything wrong, they were shot by the SS military soldiers. Elie was once sent to the doctor because his right foot began to swell from the cold. The sole of his foot was full of pus, and the doctor had to open up the sac. Elie was also starting to picture life without pain and suffering, to no longer feel anything. He wasn't scared to die …show more content…

All he wanted for when he was finally a free man was to just eat something, anything. He did not even think of anything or anyone else. Just a piece of bread. Elie Wiesel's physical health was just yet another thing barely hanging on. He was sent to a hospital afterwards for food poisoning. He ate way too much compared to what he was living off of. He was starved mostly, or he was fed only one bowl of soup and one piece of bread a day. So his body wasn't able to handle it when he was finally able to eat until he was full. Elie's body was also pushed to its limits everyday with the labour work he was forced to do or he would die. Also all the marching he had to do from just marching in place or when moving to another camp. He would also sometimes give his father some of his rations of soup and bread for when he was sick to help him. Elie Wiesel was a walking skeleton when he was liberated. Now his Spiritually that was nowhere to be found, completely gone. Elie lost his faith in seeing all the deaths and different ways one can die and how a human can torture another human. He watched as his own father got sick and died, and he didn't even feel anything. “ I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me,if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!... c. 112 pages of

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