Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

Did you ever think one person's identity could impact a whole global society? In Elie Wiesel's Nobel peace prize speech, he emphasizes the identities and why we need to remember the victims and not the oppressors. The most important thing to remember is to honor the victims and those who died. If we don’t, then we do not really understand how somber those experiences were for those people. All of this connects to one thing, which is the central idea. Wiesel informs us how important it is to know and understand the victims’ stories of the Holocaust to improve our understanding of the Holocaust and historical events.

In the story Night by Elie Wiesel he states how much going through the Holocaust affected him such as saying “From the depths of a mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.”(Night pg.115) He …show more content…
Lily Ebert is a Holocaust survivor and shares her stories online via TikTok. She expresses her experiences from the Holocaust such as saying "My number is A-10572. That is what I was.” (Edwards) She uses the word “was” because she has an identity now, but during the Holocaust she never had one. By being assigned a number, she was never truly a person at all because she did not have an identity in her society. It was not for human beings. "(Edwards) She represents Auschwitz as “It” because why would she give it an identity if it did not give her one. It was such a difficult time for her and she does not want to look back at it. This quote is also a lot like the second quote in the second paragraph. “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”(Night pg.115) Elie and Lily express themselves as not human like after their stories from the Holocaust. All of this connects back to the central idea by showing people lose who they truly are during a traumatic event and why it is important to inform people on what they went through and how important one idea could be to a society and to inform