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relationship with his family and dad was very weak. Elie's relationship with his father was very distant while living in Sighet but once they arrived at the camps they realized that they only had each other thus creating a bond until the very end. Elie's and his father's relationship was distant while living in Sighet. Before the concentration camps Shlomo was rather distant from Elie and his family. Elie says "My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his…

“What a shame, a shame that you did not go with mom… I saw many children your age go with their mothers…” (33). - Night by Elie Wiesel,The book has two main characters Elie and his father, Who find the hardships in trying to make it through the almost unbearable wrath of the Nazis during the holocaust. They found that it was exceptionally hard to survive and keep their faith through there journey. Keeping faith throughout the holocaust is difficult. One example on why its hard would be…

In order to survive in difficult situations one must give up their compassion for others, and revert back to their primal instincts. The book Night is about a boy how went through the Holocaust, it does an awesome job at showing how people lose compassion for others. As shown in the book many victims were willing to give up their compassion to do anything that would keep them alive. Some were even willing to kill, most didn’t want to kill they would just harm others, and even then some reverted…

concentration camp in Nazi Germany. It was established in March 1933 on the outskirts of Dachau (17 km from Munich). During the entire period of the camp existence, there were imprisoned 250 thousand people from 24 countries, about 70 thousand were brutally tortured or killed, 140 thousand transferred to other concentration camps, 30 thousand survived until liberation. It is known that in Dachau the prisoners were subjected to illegal "medical experiments." During the 2nd World War 1939-45 camp…

Prejudice based laws against Jewish people force Elie Wiesel and his community out of their houses and into camps. Elie’s community being expelled from their home is significant, because it shows the isolation the Jews had to face during the Holocaust. Elie describes the day that the Jewish people were driven out of their homes “like a page torn from a book…dealing with the captivity in Babylon or Spanish Inquisition. They passed me by, one after the other…all those lives I had shared for years.…

events from the Holocaust unfold from the eyes of younger Jewish Elie Wiesel. “Night” is set during the nineteen-forties when the Nazi party still ruled Germany. Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel and the rest of his family are sent to the concentration camps after their own town is taken control of by the Nazis, sadly Elie's mother and sister are killed off early on when they reach Birkenau. For the remainder of the story, Elie and his father encounter many hardships including starvation, disease,…

The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffeneggeris is a story about a girl named Alexandra who has a passion for books and reading, and it takes place in Chicago Illinois. During the middle of the night Alexandra is wandering around. Until she comes upon the Night Bookmobile. She noticed a man, and this man name is Mr.Openshaw the librarian. Then she finds her own diary in the library, but all the books there look familiar. Until she realized that they were all hers. The next day she went back to the…

Dehumanization in Night During the Holocaust, approximately six million non-Aryans, especially those who were Jewish, perished under the rule of the Nazis. Prisoners were frequently beaten, starved, and treated as if they were animals. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he recollected the traumatizing experiences he and his fellow prisoners endured. Through these experiences, many began to lose hope and viewed life as one against all. The true tragedy, however, is that the Nazi regime numbed…

they’re not the same doesn’t make it acceptable. The memoir Night follows the life Sighet Jew, Eliezer and his father. Going from concentration camp to concentration camp, Elie learns about himself and discovers what religion truly is. This memoir takes place during the Holocaust, an era in time in which European Jews were killed and forced to work in labour camps. Families were separated; people were starved, beaten to death, and many far worse forms of punishment. In this memoir, numerous laws…

people when they think of a camp they would think of a place where you go to get away and have fun with your friends. Well the Nazis had a different version of “fun” in their concentration camps. So what are these concentration camps that the Nazis assembled, where were most of them located, and what were they used for? First and foremost, concentration camps were places made by the Nazis to kill certain races. In fact, “the term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained…