Elie Wiesel's Obstacles In Night

In the biography, Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie experienced traumatic obstacles at the start of the Holocaust. During the 1930s, the jewish population decreased dramatically due to racial purification. The most brutal genocide that happened in Europe was led by Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler discriminated against the Jewish population, homosexual, the disabled, and the gypsies. Since Adolf wasn't fond of these types of people, he wanted to diminish them from the world for good. He created Nazism, and formed concentration camps, such as Auschwitz. Referring to this, it would forever end all races, except the Aryans. Elie Wiesel indicated the hard endeavors he had to face throughout his lifetime. Throughout Elie’s time as a prisoner in the camps, he fought from visiting the grip of death and becoming a nazi’s target. …show more content…
Anywhere Elie would go death followed him. A quote to support this was, “ We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH.” (Wiesel 40). Based on this, it exhibits how death was unpreventable at the time. Jews were passed down for labor work or taken to be killed at camps. Elie was extremely petrified, especially when Nazis were near. At any second horror could occur right in front of his eyes. Death was a possibility everyday on Earth. For instance, when Elie’s father became ill and was taken away by the Nazi men, even when he was still breathing. Additionally, Elie was left alone for he had no one he knew left around