If you’re entire family was murdered by Nazi’s, would you write a book about it? I read Night by Elie Wiesel. Night is a memoir about Eliezer and his testimony about his experiences in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide that killed almost six million Jews made by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its partners. The victims included 1.5 million children and included about two thirds of the nine million Jews that were living in Europe at the time.
Night takes place in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1994 and 1945 at the high point of the Holocaust near the end of the World War II. Before taken to the concentration camp, Eliezer lived in his hometown, Sighet. Elie Wiesel is represented as Eliezer in this book, with only minor changed between himself, and the character. Eliezer, a 15 year old boy from Hungarian Transylvania, struggles to keep his faith in God while his entire life is falling apart. Eliezer’s father, Shlomo, is the only other constant character in the book. Shlomo is an older man who simply loves his son and shows him support as someone to depend upon. Night shows Shlomo only through Eliezer’s eyes, …show more content…
Wiesel wrote Night in 1960, 15 years after being released from Buchenwald. He calls himself a “messenger of the dead among the living”. When writing the memoir, he made small changes to distance himself from the character, Eliezer, in his book. Writing about traumatic situations, as Wiesel did, is nearly impossible. Although there are several details in Night that differ from the real facts of Elie Wiesel, the details that are changed are quite minuscule and doesn’t make the memoir any less true. Elie Wiesel went on to get married and have a son. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992. Wiesel went on to live until he was 87 years old, and he died on July 2,
Night takes place in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1994 and 1945 at the high point of the Holocaust near the end of the World War II. Before taken to the concentration camp, Eliezer lived in his hometown, Sighet. Elie Wiesel is represented as Eliezer in this book, with only minor changed between himself, and the character. Eliezer, a 15 year old boy from Hungarian Transylvania, struggles to keep his faith in God while his entire life is falling apart. Eliezer’s father, Shlomo, is the only other constant character in the book. Shlomo is an older man who simply loves his son and shows him support as someone to depend upon. Night shows Shlomo only through Eliezer’s eyes, …show more content…
Wiesel wrote Night in 1960, 15 years after being released from Buchenwald. He calls himself a “messenger of the dead among the living”. When writing the memoir, he made small changes to distance himself from the character, Eliezer, in his book. Writing about traumatic situations, as Wiesel did, is nearly impossible. Although there are several details in Night that differ from the real facts of Elie Wiesel, the details that are changed are quite minuscule and doesn’t make the memoir any less true. Elie Wiesel went on to get married and have a son. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992. Wiesel went on to live until he was 87 years old, and he died on July 2,