Night Elie Wiesel Quotes

“I’ve got the most faith in Hitler. He’s the only one to keep his promises. His promises to the Jews” (Wiesel, 77). This is a quote from the book Night by Eliezer Wiesel. It was spoken by a cellmate in the concentration camp Buna. This quote symbolizes how a lot of Jewish people felt at the time, hopeless. Night is a collection of Eliezer’s own experiences during the Holocaust. The book follows Eliezer on his journey from home, to a ghetto, to a concentration camp, to a death camp, to salvation. The treacherous events of the Holocaust. Such as taking away regular human rights, stealing from them their identities and the acts of inhuman treatment towards the jews, are ones that we will never forget. In the beginning days of the Holocaust before Jewish people were being sent off to concentration camps in the hundreds, Jewish people were first sent to ghettos. Ghettos being small, cramped and rundown parts of town. Ghettos were often fenced off from the rest of town, and windows facing town were painted black. This was the case for Eliezer (Wiesel, 8). This came hand in hand with the curfew. For Eliezer, curfew was eight o’clock. Jews caught outside of their homes past eight was punishable by death (Wiesel, 9).
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Concentration camps were one of the biggest spots for the practice of inhumane treatment towards the Jews. This is made evident in the thousands of recorded acts left from the Holocaust. Some of the ways of inhuman treatment cast upon Elie would be when often times in his time as a prisoner he was forced to travel to a different camp. Elie and his father would be herded by the hundreds into small, dirty, uncovered cattle cars. The prisons were forced in so tightly they barely had enough room to stand. In addition, they would be forced to stay stock still for several