Night Elie Wiesel Research Paper

Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel once stated, “God is right, or God is just- even during the Crusades we said that .... But how can you say that now, with one million children dead?” (Berger). Throughout Elie Wiesel’s experience at the concentration camp in Auschwitz, his faith in God slowly diminished, but hope approached the millions of Jews once more in the year 1945. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, tells the story of a boy, Elie Wiesel, and the separation of his family, when they are sent to concentration camp, Auschwitz. Elie is left with nothing but his father and his hope that they would soon leave the camp. As time goes on at the camp, Elie, his father, and many other Jews are worked to death and mistreated causing the majority of them …show more content…
One reason was because, even though the prisoners encountered a bit of fear at the beginning, it was soon lost towards the end. As the Jews spent many of their days in Auschwitz working extremely hard, going through many selections, and being threatened by the SS men, that threat and everything else soon meant nothing more to the Jews. One day, all the Jews were sent to gather around in Appelplatz, and roll call was taken as usual. The Jews, formed in roll call, and thought to themselves, “The SS surrounding us, machine guns aimed at us: the usual ritual” (Wiesel 64). Even though machine guns were pointed towards them, it no longer meant fear to them. What it actually meant for them was, there was just simply nothing to fear anymore, not even death, it all was just another one of their daily routines. Even through the harsh nights, being treated poorly, being fed poorly and much much more, the Jews kept their one key of survival, hope. Hope was gained and fear started to walk out on its own making them grow as strong individuals. The fear walked out and the Jews grew so strong that not even Elie himself knew how he made it out in the year 1945