Reaction Paper About Elie Wiesel Night

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed” (Wiesel and Wiesel 32). Elie Wiesel is describing the horrific experience of his first night in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an atrocious event in history where six million Jews were brutally murdered because of their religion (“Holocaust”). The Nazi’s, led by Adolf Hitler, tremendously detested the Jews and wanted to execute every one of them (“Holocaust”). Elie Wiesel was among the few children that survived this gruesome experience. Although the Holocaust killed a large quantity of innocent people, without it we wouldn’t have learned about Elie Wiesel and everything he has accomplished. Eliezer Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 (“Elie”). His parents were Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel (“Elie”). He grew up in Sighet, Romania, with his three sisters, Beatrice, Hilda, and Tzipora (“Elie”). Elie was highly influenced by how his father, mother, and grandfather expressed Judaism (“Elie”). He decided that he wanted to pursue religious studies (“Elie”). He was an extremely dedicated Jew. In 1944, the Wiesels became part of the Holocaust (“Elie”). Elie was separated from his mother and sisters at the age of fifteen (“Elie”). Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people died from gas chambers, slave labor, and disease (“Auschwitz”). They were sent to a sub camp where they were forced to do slave labor in cruel and inhumane conditions (“Elie”). During the time of the Holocaust, Elie and his father transferred to several other Nazi camps (“Elie”). Their experience was brutal and undeserved. Three months before Elie was freed, his father was killed by a German soldier (“Elie”). However, Elie lived to tell their story. Elie was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 (“Elie”). His older sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, also survived, but unfortunately his mother and younger sister, Tzipora, didn’t make it (“Elie”). Elie went on to study at the Sorbonne in France (“Elie”). Even though he survived the Holocaust, he didn’t tell the world about what he had been through right away. He finally considered it when a close friend told him that he should write about what he experienced (“Elie”). Elie decided to break his silence and tell the world his story by writing the book, Night, in 1960 (“Elie”). The book describes all of the …show more content…
No one deserves to go through something like this. We need to make sure that it is stopped before it reaches a point where people are being killed. I can relate to Elie’s experience because I see discrimination around me everywhere. I know what it looks like when people are treated differently because of religion or what they believe in. People in our world can learn numerous lessons from the Holocaust. One major lesson is that we must have each other’s backs. We must make sure that every country around the world does everything to stop people being persecuted. I believe the life lesson that people can relate to and learn from Elie’s life is that through every terrible occurrence you need tell people about it and make sure that people understand that it should never happen. You need to set aside your anger and tell the world what is