Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night
This book is by a Jewish man name Elie Wiesel; he talks about the atrocities he witnessed as a boy committed by the Nazis during World War Two. The things that are mentioned in this book are the infamous Holocaust that claimed the lives of millions of Jews and other ethnic groups. He also finds himself deported to the infamous Auschwitz concentration/extermination camp. During his time at Auschwitz he encountered some infamous people such as Doctor Josef Mengele aka “The Angel of Death” known by his patients. He earned that nickname by performing deadly human experiments on the condemned Jews and other ethnic groups. The worst part is these horrifying events occurred when he was just twelve. The experiences he endured cause him to question his religion and slowly he loses faith in god.
War raged on in Europe. A twelve year old Jewish boy name Elie lives in Transylvanian town of Sighet. He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly follows his Jewish tradition. His parents are shopkeepers, and his father is a highly respected man within Sighet’s Jewish community. Elie has two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister named Tzipora. Elie studies Jewish mystical texts of the Cabbala with Moshe the Beadle. Moshe becomes a teacher to Elie and teaches him the Jewish traditions. The government later expels the Jews and deported some of the Jews of Sighet, one of them is Moshe. He comes back to Sighet to warn them of the upcoming danger, which was the mass execution of Jews throughout Europe. The town of Sighet found him to be crazy and ignored his warning. The town’s people didn’t think Hitler would kill off Jews. A couple of year’s passes by, the town of Sighet finds itself now under control by Nazi Germ...

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...only of food. Couple of days past the American army was approaching; the Nazis decided to kill all the Jews left in the camp. Daily, thousands of Jews are shot. About 20,000 people remained in the camp, the Nazis decided to evacuate and kill everyone left in the camp. As the evacuation began an air raid siren went off sending everybody indoors. When it seemed that everything had returned to normal and that the evacuation will proceed as planned, the resistance movement strike, and drove the SS from the camp. Hours later, the American army arrived at Buchenwald. Now free, the prisoners thought only of feeding themselves. Elie was struck with food poisoning and spend weeks in the hospital. When he finally raised himself and looks in the mirror he hadn’t seen himself in a mirror for years, he was shocked at the way he looked like. He said he looked dead..