Eliezer asked him what was wrong. Moshe told him he was in a concentration camp. He said they threw him in a pit and shot his leg, but he managed to escape to worn him to flee for his life. Eliezer didn't listen to him anyway. About three days later, German troops entered Sighet.
6) “The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it.” (Wiesel 20) Little did the Jewish community know, the little star on their shoulder would be the death of over six million Jewish people. The Germans issued decrees, but the Jews kept saying it wasn’t so bad, until it was too late for them to possibly revolt. The Jews were banned from public places/services, and then they were isolated in overpopulated ghettos.
5/10/13 Period 2 Character Development in Night In his memoir, Elie Wiesel tells his story about himself and his father as they struggle for survival in a concentration camp during the holocaust, constantly struggling with starvation and for survival, as they are constantly mistreated by the nazis that watch over them. The author's purpose for writing this novel was to inform the reader. The author did this by explaining everything that he saw happen during the holocaust inside the concentration camps and also by giving detailed explanations on everything that he had encountered, and also what he saw happen. The focus of this essay is that at first, Elie Wiesel was just an ordinary religious jewish boy, who after being in a concentration camp, started to change, and after his father died, he stopped feeling and developed. In the beginning of the story, Wiesel was just an ordinary religious jewish boy who studied the Cabbalah (14) and really liked his religion and never doubted the Cabbalah, the Jewish Bible.
The Jewish people were required to wear the Jewish star or Star of David on them at all times. When they would finally come get them off the train the higher ranking officers decided if you were going to be used for experiments or slave camps. He said the worst camp he ever went was ran by a man that would kill `15 to 20 people a day inhuman ways because the officer said that hanging was too easy for Jews. At this camp he was tattooed with KL which stands for concentration camp in Germany. Max also said his father was killed at this camp.
Dehumanization has to be the most worst way to deprive a person from there humane self. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a 12 year old boy sentenced to a concentration camp, often has to deal with the horrific attempts to deprive him of his human qualities. Dehumanization remains a recurring event in Night which happens either physically or mentally. Dehumanization physically occurs in Night. Shlomo, Elie’s father goes to a meeting, as he returns from the meeting he has brought some bad news on his way back.
As Cyrus’ family searches for him he comes running out and jumps from the tier and kills himself. Two of the gang members start to collect money and set half of a row on fire, anybody who had water used the last of the last of it to put it out. One of the gang members starts a fight a preacher and almost cracks his skull open. The next day Katrina finally stops, but that didn’t mean they were free to go. All of the people who were in the Superdome had to go into a barricaded fence area where the conditions were just as bad.
“Night” Essay The autobiography “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, is a personal and historical account of the Holocaust in World War II. In a recent interview, Elie Wiesel said his experiences at the camps gradually wore him down and almost killed him. There are several examples that points to this decline and they are Madame Schachter, the boy that was hung, and babies on fire. The first example is Madame Schachter. In the ghettos, she would scream about a fire every once in awhile.
As they arrive in Birkenu, Wiesel and his father are separated from his mother and sisters; they never see them again. All Jews are evaluated to see whether they should be killed immediately or put to work in concentration camps. Elie and his father pass the evaluation and are taken to prisoner barracks where they first encounter open-pit furnaces where thousands of babies are being burned (p.32). They are, before long, stripped from all clothing, shaved, disinfected, and treated with inhumane cruelty. They soon make their way to Buna, a work camp, where they are put to work as slaves and under much malnourishment.
Before they were sent to the concentration camp, Elie had little respect for his father and they both lived quite an independent life. The distance between his father and himself is so great that Elie describes his father as one who “was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel 3). Elie soon realized that his father held a greater priority for others in the Jewish community rather than his family. Elie’s realization further shows how distant they are from each other because he has learned to just leave things the way they are. Instead of demanding attention from his father, he busies himself with frequent praying and studying the cabbala with Moshe the Beadle, growing closer to him instead.
Because He had, had thousands of children burned in his pits? Because he kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because on His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Bierkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death" (page 64) Day and night they’re constantly living in fear and working their butts off, for what? Just a little visual entertainment for Hitler and his SS guards. The guards knew they