Auschwitz

In the memoir, NIght, by Elie Wiesel 1960 he protagonist Elie discovers that hope can pull you through the most challenging times. Told in the first point of view, the author supports his theme by describing the setting of Auschwitz, establishing the major conflict of the brutality of the S.S, and incorporating the literary devices of mood and tone. Wiesel’s purpose is to inform in order to not let this happen again. He creates a mood of pain for an audience of mature readers. Elie Wiesel called…

“Night”, novel about Eliezer who survived from the cruelest event called Holocaust. He was a laborer and a survival from many camps, such as Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Eliezer need to work for food and for his own life, because he will be eliminate. “Night” itself, is a symbolic of suffering, death, darkness, and lost in faith. “Schindler’s List” is a movie about Oskar Schindler who made money from a war, during the Holocaust. Schindler was a German who opened a factory…

Faith. “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them again.” Elie Wiesel, who has written many memoirs, such as Night, takes the reader through what life was like for him throughout the Holocaust. The memoir is set in two Nazi German camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, at the height of the Holocaust towards the end of World War II. The first sign of Loss of Faith is when a Cabala teacher asked him why he prayed. This caused Elie to really think about why he actually prayed. He finally…

Father and son relationships in the Night Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in the concentration camp during World War II. It also shows both helpful and harmful father/son relationships. Mostly between Wiesel and his father but there are also many other examples. As they go through the concentration camp Wiesel and his father bonded over the fear of losing each other. They helped each other in many ways. I believe without one another neither Wiesel nor his father would have…

engraved in the minds of the liberators (“Liberation”). Even though this new found freedom was a good thing it was also just the beginning of the rest of their lives and the hardships that were yet to come. The 415 Jewish children that survived Auschwitz were sent into a new world; yet they had mental, physical, and family travesties ahead to overcome (“Liberation”). These children had tremendous obstacles in their future, but also had new adventures and freedoms that they had never before been…

Throughout Night, Wiesel’s humanity is constantly being chipped away and reduced by the Nazis’ treatment. As Wiesel enters Auschwitz, his humanity is considerably changed. Him and the other Jews are herded like cattle, shaved, stripped down, disinfected and put in bare living conditions (Wiesel 35, 36). This treatment batters Wiesel’s humanity down close to nothing; as if he were a wild animal. He is fed little food and has to scrounge what he can from around the camp, much like a mouse would.…

“A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”(Wiesel 34). This is how the Jews experienced the Holocaust, they suffered so much just because of who they were. They were innocent people but they were punished and imprisoned to die. The birdcage, made with barbed wires, in my art project shows how the Jews were imprisoned and how their freedom was stripped away from them. And the white dove symbolizes, Elie Wiesel, being able to survive and fly away from the concentration camp. There…

Tsiporah. He was influenced by the religious believes of his grandmother, he pursued religious studies at a yeshiva at a young age. In March 1944, his family was captured and sent to a Jewish ghetto where he lived until May then they were sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp, where Wiesel and his father were forced into slave labor and his mother and younger sister were sent to the gas chambers. Then he was forced on to a death march to Buchenwald. In 1945 the U.S army liberated the…

During the holocaust there were many brave and heroic figures that contributed to the holocaust efforts in some way shape or form- one hero amongst all, Maximilian kolbe stood out significantly. In order to understand his courageous acts it is important to know his background. Maximilian Kolbe- initially given the name of Raymond Kolbe, was born on January 7th, 1894 in downtown Poland. Both parents, Juliuz Kolbe and Maria Dobrowska worked on a consistent bases to try and provide the best life…

Every incident that changes one's life also changes who they are. In the riveting memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in the perspective of a Holocaust survivor. Eliezer, as a young boy, is forced into the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his life changes permanently. Gradually, he loses hope in God, changing him from a deeply devoted Jew to a lost boy who has abandoned his faith in God. Eventually, Eliezer blames all his suffering on the injustice of God. Through Eliezer’s…