Elie Wiesel experienced a lot of hardships while surviving in the Holocaust. During the time that he was in the concentration camps he realized one thing; cruelty; however, it did not matter how good of a person you were, or if you were innocent, you would get beat or punished. Cruelty reveals the themes; inhumanity, violence and racism throughout the novel Night. Cruelty is very important in this novel because the narrative was based off of the Holocaust, which was a historical event that happened in the 1930, it was the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Jews, homosexuals, black people and people with disabilities. The person behind all the murders was Hitler and the Nazi. Elie Wiesel talks about traumatizing experiences in the concentration
