Commentary On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night, a personal account of the Holocaust by Elie Wiesel was a profound book. Weisel, thirteen when the book began and was sixteen when the camp was liberated, had lived in both ghettos in Sighet. When he was deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz he almost sent entered the crematorium but he marched passed it and was lucky enough to live there for three weeks. Later in the novel he had transferred between many other camps. His last and final camp was liberated in 1945. Hitler did not not make the just choices for the country and was cruel to the Jews. He made the Jewish wear yellow stars, took away all their rights, and then he forced them into death and labor camps. The first act of exterminating the Jews was when Hitler expelled all foreign Jews in Sighet. Unfortunately, Wiesel was very close friends with a foreign Jew, Moishe the Beadle. They were crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police. They were quickly …show more content…
The first policy was that Jews were prohibited from leaving their residances for more than three days, if this policy was broken they were under the penalty of death. Later, hungarian police searched every Jewish house for gold, jewelry, or any valuables because they were now forbidden to own those items. Again, if this policy the policy was broken they were under the penalty of death. Within weeks they were required to wear a yellow star, and other policies arose such as not being able to go to restaurants, traveling by rail, attending the synagogues, and being on the streets after six o'clock at night. Wiesel's father did not want discourage others, saying, “The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal… ”(11). Wiesel's father was a kind man and did not want to discourage his fellow Jews hope. Wiesel's father did not discourage anyone but he made them believe that everything would be fine, unfortunately he was leading them into a trap that even he didn't know