Nazi Death Camps in the Night by Elie Wiesel

Night is an non fiction, dramatic book that tells the horrors of the nazi death camps all around Europe. The book is an autobiographical account of what happened, so the main character is the author. The author is Elie Wiesel who was only 14 year old when Nazi Germany came through his town of Sighet, Transylvania. This is story is set between the years of 1944 and 1945. Elie and his family of 4 are optimistic when Germany begins to take power. Germany invades Hungary, then arrives in Elie’s town. The Nazi’s begin to take over the Jews by limiting their freedom. Jews are eventually deported. The Jewish people are crowded into wagons where they are shipped to Auschwitz. He is separated from his mother and sister. Over the course of the book, Elie and his father are sent to two different concentration camps. Their final concentration camp is Buchenwald. His father ends up dieing before the allied troops liberated Budapest in 1945. Elie is left with the memories of death and violence.
Elie Wiesel had many challenges that he faced everyday that he was in the camps. The main challenge was obviously to survive the death camps through hard work. The Jews able to work basically had two choices. They either worked hard, or they were sent to the crematorium. Wiesel struggled to survive the starvation and abuse. A more important challenge was keeping himself mentally stable and keeping himself alive internally. The fascist knew how to break down a person not only physically, but mentally. There at the camp, he witnessed the death of his family, the death of his innocence. There he began to disbelieve in god. “Where is god? Where is He? someone behind me asked.”(Wiesel, 61) Many Jews began to lose hope. What they saw there was terrible. “They...

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...n of the Holocaust by Jimmy Carter. Wiesel later win the Nobel Peace Prize, and founded the Elie Wielsel Foundation for Humanity.
Everybody can agree that the Holocaust was horrible, and that this should never be repeated. This book has gave a realization of the true horrors of war. The world really isn’t a peaceful place. There is always going to be something absolutely disgusting going on. This book is very detail oriented of the death camps. The book gets as personal as “The Diary of Anne Frank.” If a reader wants to really know what its like to be in a Jew’s shoes at the time of the Holocaust. They should read this book because it leaves you almost feeling Wiesel’s loneliness, depression. Elie Wiesel is a fantastic person.

Works Cited

Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.