This book is based on World War 2 and what it was like to live in concentration camps. This book was focused on a boy (the main character) and his family and how they ended up in these concentration camps. The main character was a twelve-year-old boy by the name of Elie Wiesel. Elie spent much of his time practicing Talmud and on Jewish mysticism. A man by the name of Moshe the Beatle taught Elie most of what he knew about Mysticism. After a new death experience with the Nazi’s, he came back to the town were Elie lived and told everyone that the Nazi’s will be coming for them soon. No one believed him, but it did happen rapidly. Before Elie’s family knew it they were living in small ghettos that the Nazi’s assembled them to live in before Elie’s family and the rest of the Sighet Jews were transported to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. …show more content…
Nazi’s escorted Elie and his group of Jews with clubs to a selection of those who are fit enough to work and those who are declining in strength. The way that Elie and his father make it through this selection is by lying about their ages. Elie says he’s 18 and Elie’s father says he is only 40. Elie’s mother and three sisters disappear into a concentration camp by the name of Birkenau. After three or so weeks at Auschwitz they march to Buna, a factory in the are of Auschwitz, where they sort electrical parts. Elie’s father failed the first health test they have ever went through but then gets another chance to live and passes that physical test. Due to Russian liberations moving in on the German concentration camps the Nazis and the Jews are forced to run a forty-two mile trip to Gleiwitz. Anyone that falls behind is instantly shot on the spot. Once they get to Gleiwitz they are forced on a ten day train ride further into Germany. The Jews are forced to eat hand fulls of snow to
Through out Night, Eliezer and his father Shlomo go through many obstacles that bring them emotionally farther and closer away from each other. In the book, written by Elie Weisel, he talks about his experiences as a young Jew in a Nazi run concentration camp. During this horrifying time, Elie talks about the sickening events that happen and how they affect the relationship with his farther. In the beginning, Elie and his farther have much respect for each other and by the end of the book, the relationship turned into an emotionless feeling of guilt and burden. The concentration camp took a great toll on their relationship.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is all about World War 2 and the Holocaust. This time period was between 1941 and 1945. If I were to choose one word to describe this book, it would be horrifying. The Holocaust is a very hard and horrible time period to go through. It was either live or die.
He and his family are later put on a train to an unknown destination along with other Jews from their town. Elie could not have imagined what he saw when the train stopped. The train stopped at Auschwitz, a concentration camp. When the passengers exit the train the men and women are separated and then the men are sorted into separate groups based on their health and skills. Elie is separated from his mother and sister immediately and never sees them again.
It first starts to become hard when elie’s family went to the concentration camp. But in the camp elie’s mother and sister ended up dieing because the Germans had no need for them and they germans weren't able to work them as hard. In the begining of them coming to the camp they were being fed quite well for being in a concentration camp at this time they were fed bread and soup for lunch and dinner but slowly through them being at the camp called “auschwitz” they were slowly being fed less and less portions so throughout it he was given just bread at one point in the middle then it went to just soup but the portions was littler and littler. In the book it talked about having a selection were the germans would pick the weak out of the strong . you would think this would give the living jews more food but in the case it is not true they were actually give less
The Holocaust is a genocide that killed about six million Jews that started in January 1933 and lasted until May 1945. Many families were taken from their homes and put on cattle wagons, they were brought to various concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Buna. In the memoir, Night Elie Wiesel’s family is taken out of Sighet for a year and a half, with the struggle of living each day but luckily he survived. All were put through harsh conditions like being starved for days by not receiving all rations of the meals and only given a small portion of bread and soup. At these camps everyone was forced to march, if you fell behind or got weak you would be beaten or killed.
Eliezer began to lose faith in God and others around him. After a month Eliezer undergoes an foot operation. While he is healing in the infirmary he heard that Russian are a dancing and will liberate the camp so the Nazis decided to evacuate to Gleiwitz concentration camp in the middle of a snowstorm. The old and sick stayed but Eliezer and his father March with the other prisoners. Then rides a train to Buchenwald.
Elies dad buried some of their valuables because he knew that it was going downhill quickly. They were soon moved to the small ghetto where they saw a nazi guard shoot an old guy because he was not walking fast enough. They were also told to stop and sit with no food or water in the very hot weather.
Starting in chapter 3 of Night Elie’s terrors start as he is forced to walk slowly towards what he thought would be his death. As he was just steps away from the crematorium a SS officer told him to go left. All during this time Elie was considering running directly into the electrified fence to cut his time at Auschwitz short. Soon after he is placed in a barracks where he has been sorted through by age, health and occupation. For the next 8 days he is running around doing anything to blend in
The author and main character Elie lived a normal life in Sighet until Hitler’s rule began to effect his life.
About twelve years and roughly eleven million deaths. The Holocaust. There are no words to describe it. It was full of death, brutality, pain, and torture. No one made it out unscarred.
Elie got deported to Auschwitz with his family. When they arrived there
After they got all the Jews out they packed them into cattle cars to take them to Auschwitz. The Jews were separated by gender. Elie got separated from his mom and his sister, but he stayed with his father. The fathers and sons tried to stay close to each other to take good care of one another because that was the only family they had. After two days of travel, thirst became intolerable, as did the heat.
The book i am reading is "NIght" by Elie Wiesel. The topic i chose was health. Many factors contribute to your health, either it being good or bad. When you eat a full three meals every day you stay healthy. When you only get a small portion of bread and soup each day, then you probably will become sick.
It is a common assumption among numerous people in the world that the Holocaust never existed. In fact, almost fifty percent of the world population never even heard of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel helped people around the world learn about the Holocaust through his book “Night.” He wanted people to see the bravery, courage, and guilt of the Jews through his book. “Night” shows the horrific and malicious acts in the German concentration camps during the Holocaust.
In class we are working with a book call Night, by Elie Wiesel. This book is about a young man call Elie and his family that live in Transylvania that has a lot of trouble all around the book because like he is jews they send him and his family to a concentration camp and he is waiting for a miracle of god to save him but like he doesn't see nothing happening he is starting do get mad and stop believing in him, this book is basically about how world war I started because germans(nazis) thought jews were different people. Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a person who believes in god to a person who only thinks about food. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the fact that because of everything he is going though and he thinks that god will stop it or will help him but like he sees nothing is