Nazi concentration camps

Jews” (Wiesel, 77). This is a quote from the book Night by Eliezer Wiesel. It was spoken by a cellmate in the concentration camp Buna. This quote symbolizes how a lot of Jewish people felt at the time, hopeless. Night is a collection of Eliezer’s own experiences during the Holocaust. The book follows Eliezer on his journey from home, to a ghetto, to a concentration camp, to a death camp, to salvation. The treacherous events of the Holocaust. Such as taking away regular human rights, stealing…

enclosed hell, we were capable of singing his praises.” In this text he uses a metaphor by comparing the camp to an enclosed hell. Not only that but directly after this text Wiesel follows on by saying, “But further, there was no longer any reason why I should fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” I believe that this is a very intense phrase, because it shows how he’s done with being in that camp and glorifying someone who just seems like an illusion nowadays. Furthermore the word choice…

The main focus in “A Night Divided” is a historical fiction informing life in East Germany during the time of the Berlin Wall. This novel was about a 12-year-old girl, Gerta, which had her family divided due to the Berlin Wall. Gerta, her mother, and her brother, live in the Eastern side of Germany, controlled by the Soviets. Gerta’s dream is to be united with her family and leave this place they all once called home. But one day Gerta’s hopes got up. Her father was pantomiming a dance. A dance…

In the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl we see that life in a concentration camp was no easy thing. They have to face so many horrible things and witness life traumatizing events simply because of the religion that they are. From the beginning of the book the to end, it is filled with the horrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Viktor shares with us his experiences and the things that he endured while at Auschwitz. One line that I thought was powerful and really…

The Forgotten by Elie Wiesel, is a story that focuses on unlocking the past. Today in one’s old age, progressive forgetfulness is commonly referred to as Alzheimer’s disease. However, at the time that this book was written it was assumed that amnesia was the cause of the minds decomposition. At the beginning of the novel, the author hints at Elhanan Rosenbaum’s struggle to hold on to memories and as the story unfolds the reader finds out that he has been diagnosed with amnesia, which will…

Part of being human is discovering particular aspects in life. Arthur Miller states,” Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” However it is not possible to recognize an isolated trait as being the only accepted truth. Betrayal is not the only truth that sticks, because mankind needs a strong bond that is established by family values, forgiveness, and morality. Family values are one of the few key components in a relationship that can overpower betrayal. Even in unthinkable circumstances society…

Night is an autobiography by a man named Elie Wiesel. It’s a story about what Elie, his family, and millions of other Jews endured while the rest of the world turned their backs. Elie grew up in a small town Transylvania, Sighet and tells his story in what would be the boy version of when he was only fifteen. He has a conversation with Moishe the Beadle and is asked why he prays and Eliezer reply’s with “I don’t know.” He prays every day and night yet he cannot explain why he prays. He asks…

Sighet a master to teach me the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism" indicating that Elie wanted to learn more about God and get closer to him. His relationship with God, however, starts to fall out once he gets to the Nazi camp. For instance, page 33 of the Night states "why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent, What was there to thank Him for?" this quote reveals how Wiesel is starting to resent…

“Periodic Table” by Primo Levi elaborates on the idea that one must make personal sacrifices in order to experience true fulfillment. Throughout the novel, he highlights on the challenges one faces while executing self-serving actions. While working in Milan, Levi withholds romantic feelings for his fellow co-worker, Giulia, due to his lack of taking risks. Rather than pursuing a relationship that would bring happiness for both himself and Giulia, he “[does] not return her embrace” as he fears…

To demonstrate, critic David Vanderwerken acknowledges that the most powerful of these inversions is the reversal of the relationship between father and son. According to Vanderwerken, the father will help the son make the transition from “dependence to independence” but in Night the “...roles are completely reversed; the son becomes the parent” (Vanderwerken 64). This transposal becomes extremely apparent upon Wiesel and his father’s arrival at Buchenwald. It is there that his father, already…