Torsten Wiesel

Family is always there to help and to get people through hard times. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, family has been important to Elie. In the concentration camp Elie had lost his mom and sisters and only had his father to help him through the hard times. By examining the novel Night we can see that family is the key to survival, which is important because those who don not have family often struggle with many challenges they may face. People usually learn to succeed in life by their parents…

that the Holocaust taught us, so that it may never be repeated. Elie Wiesel is one such person. He was a young boy when the Holocaust started, yet he managed to live through the travesty and is now informing on it in his memoir, Night. The Holocaust changed Wiesel in three main ways. In his life-altering journey, Wiesel was emotionally diminished, physically drained, and spiritually transformed (and not in a good way). Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors were emotionally destroyed in no time…

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on the relationship between Elie and his father and how it changes throughout their experiences of being at concentration camps camps at the time of the holocaust. Elie and his father were not emotionally close in the beginning of the book but, had a relationship based more on respect. In the beginning of the book Elie describes his father as a rather unsentimental man and talked about how he is more concerned with others more than his family. He was…

Elie Wiesel was a man who endured the worst conditions during the holocaust. During the holocaust Wiesel was beaten, starved and almost worked to death and that's only the beginning. When Wiesel and his father arrived at the camps he was separated from his mother and sister and they were prosecuted on the spot. Elie was so young and he had the endure the most harsh conditions for a boy of his age. In the end he had to make changes, give up his religion and even make the choice of letting his…

Imagine being abused profoundly just because of what you believe in. The story I Have Lived for A Thousand Years takes place in 1943.Young girl by the age of 13 named Ellike Friedmann grows up during the holocaust and tells us all about it. Livia Bitton also known as Ellike Friedman is an author and a holocaust survivor who wrote about her experience of the holocaust. I personally would recommend this novel. It gave me a better understanding of the holocaust especially because she was about the…

This way for the gas ladies and gentlemen, is a collection of short stories following the experiences of the narrator Tadek, inspired by the experiences of Tadeusz Borowski during his time at Auschwitz. The work provides us with a personal account for a moment in history that seems unimaginable yet in some ways relatable in modern society. Although the book was first published more than fifty years ago, Borowski's brutally honest, and personal, account of one of the most traumatizing moments in…

The holocaust forces Elie to raise horrifying question, question that doubted Gods ability. It became clear to Elie that God didn’t have any intention to assist, therefore why ought to Elie Pray before God, How could I tell him: Blessed be thou Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to observe as our fathers, our mothers, our Brothers end up within the furnaces? Praised is Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine Altar…

What is the feeling of being dehumanized? How dramatic do actions towards other humans have to be before it is called dehumanization? Elie Wiesel, the author of the book “Night,” knows what dehumanization feels like. Concentration camps where millions of Jews-including Wiesel and his family-were forced to stay until they died of illness, shot by Germans, or lived long enough to be rescued. In Wiesel’s book “Night,” a tragic theme is dehumanization. Examples occur when they first arrive at…

Thursday, October 1, 2015. Irving Roth came to Bronx community college, to the ESL03 class. Irving Roth a holocaust survivor and his girlfriend Mirna was in the class. Mr. Roth came to the ESL03 class, to speak about his life during the Holocaust and the book that he wrote “Bondi’s Brother”. The purpose of the visit was to know the answer of some question that the class wrote. The question to Mr. Roth is about the book and his life. Irving Roth was born in 1929 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia and…

What would you do if you were taken away from everything you know, everything you believe.During the holocaust many people just gave up in the concentration camps. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he describes one reason many just gave up. Elie had to experience this on various occasions. Partly because when he was a teenager, he was taken to a concentration camp. Because of this his family ended up dead meanwhile Elie struggled a great deal with keeping his faith and started questioning it…