Torsten Wiesel

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel we see the struggles many people faced during the Holocaust. Many people experienced very similar struggles that they all can relate to. The article Proudly Bearing Elders’ Scars, Their Skin Says ‘ Never Forget’ by Jodi Rudoren, we see relatively the same things that happened to Elie while he was in concentration camps, from other people's experiences. Mr. Nachshon also faced many tragic things like Elie did. “ I didn’t know that this was the moment in time…

they just stopped thinking about it all together. Some people even convinced themselves that the Holocaust never happened. Even the jews before the war and during the war, thought that this evil would never happen, as shown in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he points out how his family and town had hope for so long…

Prompt #5 In Elie Wiesel’s memoir the most important theme/moral is never giving up. Throughout the book many of the people struggle through the conditions of being in the camp. They were physically and mentally abused and they began to lose faith in god. “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows…” (Night, 65). They not only lost faith in god but hey lost faith in the ability to survive and all of…

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” “I would come and visit him everyday...Then one day, he didn’t come to the window.” “We can’t let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.” “Why are people so cruel?” “I wish the Germans were dead!” “Survive!” The words of Jews. The words of Jews who went into hiding and were found. They lived a normal life, just like you and I, then were forced to live in the shadows because one man promised…

How do you feel about the holocaust? Put yourself in the everyday life of a Jew in 1944, who had to take orders from Nazi soldiers, because you were their slaves. This was all because of one person, and if you didn’t do what you where told to do you were killed. Imagine if you had to live in their conditions, where you got minimum food and water, you got sick, and you didn’t have clothes to wear on your body or shoes on your feet. There are many women, children and elderly who died because they…

Elie Wiesel How would it feel if you did everything you could do to keep a loved one alive? What would it feel like to lose a loved one over starvation and tiredness? How would it feel if you had to lie to a loved one over your siblings or mother to keep one another happy? Elie Wiesel is the main person who always stayed strong through all this no matter what. Elie was fifteen years old when he was put in the concentration camps Elie lost his mother and his 7 year old little sister when he was…

“One day when we had to come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it in the wagon.There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest”(Wiesel 105). Not only were the Nazis treating the prisoners like animals, civilians are being entertained by a group of innocent people fighting for a piece of bread. The prisoners kindness and rational thinking is replaced by the thought of survival.…

Wiesel loved teaching, in fact, this is evident in his literary works. The ultimate goal of Wiesel’s works of literature is to share his knowledge, as well as experiences with the world ( “Elie Wiesel” 1). Wiesel’s memoirs and novels revolve around the Holocaust. Wiesel uses vivid and descriptive language to describe the Holocaust—his experiences and feelings (“Wiesel, Elie” 1). Wiesel’s literary works forces one to realize that literature…

When reading pages one hundred four through one hundred fifteen there were many personal emotions. This was especially present when Eliezer's father died. It was very sad because Eliezer's father had been through so much already being in the concentration camp itself, but died crying out for Eliezer. He was also so close to being free from the camp. A lot of emotions were also present when Eliezer finally made it out of the concentration camp. It was very emotional because he was one of the very…

Mahmud Darwish is a Palestinian poet who lived during the time Palestine was given up to Israel and the Jews. He wrote many poems about Palestine's struggles and their hatred for the Jewish people. “To Our Land” speaks about the struggles the Palestinian people had when they were kicked out of their homes and forced to leave. He writes to his old home and old life. He starts off by writing, “to our land, and it is the one near the word of God.” He is most likely talking about being near Mecca,…