Night by Elie Wiesel

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In the Spring of 1944, it was hard to imagine the horrendous acts of terror that would be bestowed on innocent people and the depth of Nazi evil. To Jews in a devout community with Orthodox beliefs and spiritual lifestyles, faith in God and faith in humanity would be shaken to the core as horrific, inhumane acts of torture and suffering were experienced by those in the concentration camps. Since the creation of the world, Jews have often associated darkness (or night) with the absence of God. Consequentially, Elie Wiesel struggled with this as the unimaginable atrocities took place in his life. Although a survivor, he has been haunted with guilt, questioned his faith and developed a lack of trust in humanity as a result of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel entitled his book about the Holocaust, “Night”, because darkness symbolized the evil death camps, and a permanent darkness on the souls of those who survived. Auschwitz marked the first of several concentration camps Wiesel was exposed to that personified darkness and evil. It was on his first night there, he witnessed a furnace pit filled with burning babies. He was shocked and horrified at the inhumanity of Nazis. It was then he realized that he and the other prisoners were not at a labor camp but at a death camp. Dark, black smoke from the burning furnaces filled the air and sky, which made the atmosphere difficult for sunlight to penetrate and there was a permeating odor of burning human flesh. Darkness and gloom hung over the camp like a permanent nighttime. The men and boys were separated by work ability, the strong lived and the weak died. In these death camps, the prisoners were physically beaten and abused, starved and treated as inhuman. The acts of violence and horror we... ... middle of paper ... ...ink this could not happen again. The underlying lesson from the story was to “Never forget” so that future generations would look upon the Holocaust and feel the pain and suffering for the millions of innocent people who lost their lives in the death camps and for those who lived to tell about it. If we allow ourselves to forget, then we open ourselves to evil, and darkness could creep into our souls. Bibliography Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Print. Permanent Darkness Daniel Adelstein 5/20/14 Ms. Shine

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