Working outside during the freezing temperatures, stomachs growling begging for food, marching in the cold without any shoes, taking a quick nap in the snow and not waking up. Only a small fraction of mortifying events during the Holocaust, that a young Jewish teenager experienced. Night is a book by Elie Wiesel where he describes his terrifying experiences with his father in Nazi concentration camps. Before the Holocaust began, Eliezer and his family lived in Sighet, Transylvania. There Eliezer’s parents ran a store; in which his older sisters helped out in. Eliezer was studying the Cabbala and learning more about god by, a poor Jew named, Moishe the Beadle. Moishe the Beadle witnessed with his own eyes what the Nazis had planned for the Jewish
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Time passed and Jews learned that Moshe was right all along. The Jewish people had little time to pack their most valuable belongings. Although later their most valuable belongings would belong to the Natzi’s. Jews were sent by hundreds on cattle cars; everyone standing, one person next to another with no room at all. Some traveling more days than others, but all sent to concentration camps. Eliezer and his family arrived at a concentration camp in Auschwitz; there Eliezer was separated from his mother, two older sisters; Hilda and Beatrice, and his younger sister Tzipora. Then the journey began as the first day in a concentration camp came to an end, and it became night. Night isn’t only the title of the book but a metaphor that symbolizes the dark, terrifying, experiences and difficulties suffered by Eliezer and his father during the …show more content…
The first night at a concentration camp was just the beginning of the never ending nights. Eliezer also remembered his last night in Buna, “Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna” (Weisel 83). Eliezer remembered his last night in Buna because he had the same feelings and went through the same terrifying experiences from his first night in a concentration camp. He felt scared, terrified as he saw less and less people surviving, and more and more people dying. Eliezer had motivation, thanks to his father, to not lose strength or faith. Eliezer and his father had gone through so much torture to not lose each other but instead to help each other get through the tough
Time passed and Jews learned that Moshe was right all along. The Jewish people had little time to pack their most valuable belongings. Although later their most valuable belongings would belong to the Natzi’s. Jews were sent by hundreds on cattle cars; everyone standing, one person next to another with no room at all. Some traveling more days than others, but all sent to concentration camps. Eliezer and his family arrived at a concentration camp in Auschwitz; there Eliezer was separated from his mother, two older sisters; Hilda and Beatrice, and his younger sister Tzipora. Then the journey began as the first day in a concentration camp came to an end, and it became night. Night isn’t only the title of the book but a metaphor that symbolizes the dark, terrifying, experiences and difficulties suffered by Eliezer and his father during the …show more content…
The first night at a concentration camp was just the beginning of the never ending nights. Eliezer also remembered his last night in Buna, “Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna” (Weisel 83). Eliezer remembered his last night in Buna because he had the same feelings and went through the same terrifying experiences from his first night in a concentration camp. He felt scared, terrified as he saw less and less people surviving, and more and more people dying. Eliezer had motivation, thanks to his father, to not lose strength or faith. Eliezer and his father had gone through so much torture to not lose each other but instead to help each other get through the tough