Summary Of Elie Wiesel's Night

On January 30, 1933 a very tragic event began: the Holocaust.The Holocaust was when the Nazi party gathered all of the Jews and sent them to concentration camps. Elie Wiesel tells how he survived the terrible events in his book Night. It is evident that Elie loses faith in mankind, God and, himself through his experiences, before the Jews were set free or liberated on May 8, 1945.

The horrific experiences that Elie lived through and witnessed left him wondering how one man could be so cruel to another. As Elie was marching in line at Auschwitz, he saw men, women, and children being placed in a crematoria to be burned alive Elie writes, “I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such

When Elie arrived, his family were separated by gender. Elie went with his father and his sister went with their mother. The SS officers ordered the men to separate into two lines. Elie and his father where walking toward the flames and thought they were headed for the furnace to burn to death. Not wanting to accept this fate, Elie decided that he was going to end his own life and run into the electric fence. As they marched, he heard some man in line start reciting Kaddish. ”Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba… May His name be celebrated and sanctified..” whispered my father. For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name?” (33). The quote means that he is losing his faith in God because he feels like why would God do this to them and not help or protect them from it. Elie had always been an avid believer in Judaism; he began studying at a very young age. As devout as he was, Elie could not imagine how any god could allow the undeserved deaths of

When Elie and his father were moved to a new barrack which was made of stone, Elie father asked a question to a Gypsy officer. “Excuse me… Could you tell me where the toilets are located.”(39) Than the Gypsy officer then stared at him for a long period of time to see if the person addressing him was an animal or a human. The Gypsy officer then slapped Elie’s daddy which made him fall, Elie than thought about why he didn't do anything.” What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast?”(39) The quote means that he has stopped having faith in himself and that he let someone hit his own father without him doing anything about it. Elie has always been a good child and has always stood up for what rights but as time goes on he get’s lost in himself and forgets what really matters, but then everything is said and do with he realises what is really important.

On January 30, 1933 a very tragic event began: the Holocaust.The Holocaust was when the Nazi party gathered all of the Jews and sent them to concentration camps. Elie went through so much first losing his faith in mankind than losing his faith in god and in himself. The Holocaust was a very tragic event and innocent people died, but Elie Wiesel made it out to