Identity In Elie Wiesel's Night

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In the book Night, Elie Wiesel tells about the many horrid events that happened during the Holocaust. Elie's memories from the Holocaust are very important because he lived it. Elie states at the end of the book, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me never left me.” (Night 115). Elie saying this tells us how empty he felt on the inside. He was stripped of his identity and his faith. This quote helps show this, him calling himself a corpse is him telling us that even he believes there is nothing left of him. This is because he doesn’t have the identity he used to have, he has the identity he was given by the Germans. Many survivors of the Holocaust choose to share their stories. …show more content…

One way is by posting tiktoks with her grandson, these tiktoks have helped educate younger people about the Holocaust and Jewish holidays. These tiktoks have brought out some Holocaust deniers, but Ebert says “The world should never, ever forget the biggest crime against humanity” (Ebert). Her tiktoks help to share with the world about the horrors of the Holocaust, a promise she made to herself when she left Auschwitz. The tiktoks have also brought out antisemitism, and antisemitism acts such as harassment, assault, and vandalism of Jewish people or their businesses. But Ebert stays positive and says “We have to be very strong and say it again and again and again: It happened” (Ebert). This quote tells us that she isn’t just going to give up sharing her story just because people say it’s fake. Usually, when we think of concentration camps, we think of ones like Auschwitz, not many people think of Japanese-American internment camps. The Japanese Internment Camps and Auschwitz are a lot alike, but in different ways. Yes, both are concentration camps, but they also relate to how they

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