Extermination camp

To be uncertain means to be unable to rely on; to not be completely confident or sure of something. From 1933 to 1945, “uncertain” was most likely a word the Jews used to describe how they felt day in and day out. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events that has ever happened to this day. Millions died while few survived; Elie Wiesel being one of the survivors. Elie is able to depict the misery of the Holocaust through his novel Night. While some may find photos as the easiest way to…

killing, specifically Jews. Elie Wiesel, a concentration camp survivor who made a book,Night, about his experience, talked about his family and the people he encountered (Such as officers or friends). In a nutshell, Elie was deported to the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz, where he was split from his mother and sister. Elie then moved twice to two other concentration camps, (With his dad) while he was on the edge of dying. At the last camp he went to, his dad died, though once he died, the…

No food, no water, and no clothes are just the facade of it. “Behind me, someone said, sighing, ‘What do you expect? That’s war…’” (6) is where it all began for Eliezer Wiesel and his family in the memoir Night. Despite the ways Hitler is able to dehumanize the Jews and permits the SS officers to beat Eliezer, along with how others treated each other in acts of survival, Elie escapes the fate of becoming a brute like others. It doesn’t take much to tear a person down. Dehumanization began…

marches transport them to a more suitable place of death. Victor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning was placed in four different concentration camps between the years of 1942-1945. Although he went through terrible events, he was still able to find a reason to go on. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night was put into concentration camps at a young age. He endure many horrible things as a teenager. Such as, watching his own father die a sickness that could've been avoided if the death…

lost his faith by the tragic times he spent throughout the time he spent in the concentration camp. When he sees the times, when a family member turned on the other family member he began to question; why would god let a monster like adolf hitler away with the way he was doing the Jews and why they all had to suffer so much. The first moment we see Wiesel loses his faith is when they all got to the camp he seen everyone praying for the dead, and Elie says for the first time, I felt…

In Elie Wiesel’s Night there are several examples of the physical, mental, and emotional dehumanization strategies used by the Nazis. One of the prime examples of this dehumanization is when Eliezer has an identification number tattooed on his arm and Wiesel writes, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). This quote shows clear dehumanization because Eliezer feels like he is nothing more than a number, and most likely the Nazis feel this way too. Eliezer and the other…

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles is an example of what millions of Jews underwent while living inside concentration camps. Night, written by Elie Wiesel gives a glimpse from Elie’s perspective as to what life was like for Jews just a number of years ago. Elie faces hardships and conflicts that transform him as a person. In Night, Wiesel uses irony, symbolism, and conflict to support the idea that to survive one often has to give up normalities or even…

life and in their respective works, Night and “Hymn to Night” it shines through clearly. Throughout his autobiography, Wiesel zones in on the evilness and horrors of the night. It is inescapable and all-consuming. As his life in the concentration camps continues, he strays further and further from the light. The night is no longer just from sundown to sunrise, it continues to live in his soul 24 hours a day. Wiesel even states, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for…

discussing these types of change that he went through during the book. The first change is physical. When Elie was first taken to the camp he was only 15 and he is forced to do the work a 20 year old should be doing. “I don't know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself” (Wiesel Preface). This quote tells us that when he went into the camp he was a normal 15 year old. He was not particularly strong. But he gained strength in order…

Everyone changes, it’s human nature. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there was a substantial change from the start to the end of the book. At the start of the book, the two are traveling through many different concentration camps Elie and his dad go through struggles throughout the journey and the need each other, they suffer through things such as health, food, and work . Elie has a strong relationship with his dad and that Is the main reason why he hasn't given up yet. Elie slowly changes…