"To die was easy". This quote by Luba Frederick explains the emotional and mental state that the victims of the holocaust suffered through. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he elucidates the treacherous and inhumane experiences of what it felt to part take in the holocaust. From moving to the ghetto, and then into a concentration camp, death was always in the air like the smell of burning flesh emitted from the crematoriums. The causalities were physically and emotionally stripped of their humanity. Jewish people were in a constant state of surprise and shock when it was learned of what was their fate. Night by Elie Wiesel accentuated how quick adaptation of your environment was needed in order to make even little sense of the travesty set
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They were starved, beaten and reassured that they had no importance in living. In the novel NIGHT by Elie Wiesel, the prisoners were often told to run. This signifies the lack of humility that the SS officiers possessed. During th eliquidiation of Birkaneu-Aishwitz, Wisiel contemplated suicide for the second time. “Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road…” The fact that death seened to intrigue him merges the feelings of desperation, exhaustion and insasnity. At this point of desperation exemplifies the regular state that everyone possessed. Even after the thought finalized, he did not question himself, but proceeded to carry on with his father as his hope to live. Emotionally they were empty. To feel it even speak could not convey the devastating that lay before them. Physically, they were malnutrition and deprived proper medical care. Every living and dead corpse resembled withered skeletons with thin flesh. The conditions are so horrendous that one's life goals was altered to fit the basic accessories to live. Furthermore, After the death of his father, Elie Wiesel occupied his time in solitude. " I spent
They were starved, beaten and reassured that they had no importance in living. In the novel NIGHT by Elie Wiesel, the prisoners were often told to run. This signifies the lack of humility that the SS officiers possessed. During th eliquidiation of Birkaneu-Aishwitz, Wisiel contemplated suicide for the second time. “Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road…” The fact that death seened to intrigue him merges the feelings of desperation, exhaustion and insasnity. At this point of desperation exemplifies the regular state that everyone possessed. Even after the thought finalized, he did not question himself, but proceeded to carry on with his father as his hope to live. Emotionally they were empty. To feel it even speak could not convey the devastating that lay before them. Physically, they were malnutrition and deprived proper medical care. Every living and dead corpse resembled withered skeletons with thin flesh. The conditions are so horrendous that one's life goals was altered to fit the basic accessories to live. Furthermore, After the death of his father, Elie Wiesel occupied his time in solitude. " I spent