Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

was that the Jews would be transported in the trains that didn’t have roofs. I always thought that the Jews were moved in trains or wagons that had covers that helped keep the body heat in and the wind out. Elie had to be moved in between concentration camps on the open trains. Many people died on the trips, and on the last train ride Elie almost lost his father to the cold. A final thing that I learned was that some Jews were losing their faith during the war and were constantly doubting…

The prisoners are tightly pressed against one another trying to stay warm in the train car for the night. When the train stops, the SS officers order the prisoners to throw out any dead bodies off of the train. This makes more room in the train, making the prisoners less crowded. Elie’s father is almost thrown off of the train, thought to be dead, but Elie wakes him up by slapping and hitting him over and over again so he opens his eyes just enough to stay on the train. After twenty corpses are…

make someone change or completely lose their faith. This is what happens to Eliezer(Elie) this is what happens when he and his father are sent Auschwitz, then Buna two concentration camps the Nazis used in the Holocaust. Below are quotes describing how Elie’s faith had changed through the course of his stay at the concentration camps. At the beginning of Night Elie had very strong faith. He says, “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (page 4). This represents…

Night Eliezer Weisel and his families’ lives are changed forever when the Nazis invade Eliei’s small village of Sighet. DUring the span of only one year Elie loses all of his family, friends, and well-being. He struggles to keep his humanity, but in 1946 he is finally liberated. Two positive lessons that Elie learns is that he must always hold on to his humanity and that optimism is a powerful thing. All throughout Night, Elie is struggling to holds on to his humanity as he watched his inmates…

In the memoir night, the narrator elie wiesel recounts a moment when he witnessed a boy sending his own father to the furnace. ” He was told to place his father in the furnace” (wiesel 35). This is very cruel for his son to kill his father for his weakness. This shows how inhuman the Germans were to the Jewish people. As the author describes, many other of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by elie wiesel are “lost of faith” and…

Had Elie Wiesel truly loose his faith during the holocaust? In the book Night written by Elie Wiesel; Elie was brought down into the lowest part of his life, life no one would be able to handle. Elie was part of the holocaust, the holocaust made him experience things and remember things. Elie had been through so much it has been hard for him to ever trust anybody or believing in anything. Being put through so much for years who would have faith? Elie loses his faith in himself. He has struggled…

Change is to make or become different. Elie Wiesel’s Night tells the journey of a teenage boy who is put through two concentration camps; Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He goes through a lot of adversity and suffering to make it out alive. He learns that self-preservation is an ally instead of his greatest enemy. But it is after he considers his father to be a burden that he realizes that he has changed. Early on in the book, Eliezer shows that he was more selfless rather than selfish. When given…

In Elie Wiesel's memoir, “Night” it is clearly shown that throughout the book he slowly loses faith in his God. He is forced out of his home in Sighet, moved to a ghetto, and then moved to several concentration camps. As he endures the cruel punishments from the Germans, because of his religion, he almost loses sight of what should be important to him; his faith, himself, and his family. When tragedy occurs some might be completely destroyed and devastated, whilst others are strengthened and…

first person, Elie causes the reader to feel his emotions and all of the torment he went through during the Holocaust. This time period was not only a dark time to look back on, it was also some peoples entire life. Going from ghetto to ghetto, camp after camp, selection after selection, for many people this was a seemingly endless part of their life and Elie made the reader feel and understand that. Elie had gone through great suffering like being torn away from everyone he loved except his…

Elie Wiesel is a Jewish writer, most of all a Holocaust survivor. He has survived the gruesome brutality of the Nazi death camps and has been courageous enough to share his story. Wiesel has written 57 books. His book Night is based on his experiences as a prisoner in the concentration camps. The memoir itself is very powerful, and contain numerous themes and symbols that teleport the reader to the hellish place Wiesel had been forced to stay. A major theme in the story is faith. In the book…