Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

In 1944, a twelve –year-old Elie Wiesel, in the village of Sighet, spends a lot of time thinking about the Jewish faith. He has an instructor named Moshe the Beadle, he returned from a near death experience, and warns people in the village that Nazis will soon come to their village and mess up the peace in the village. No one listens and soon people under Hitler’s rule force the Jews of the town and into supervised ghettos. Though Elie’s family remains calm, in the spring they are shipped into the final convoy to the Auschwitz and Birkenau death and concentration camps. Eighty some villagers on this convoy have to survive with little food and water. The prisoners were sorted out to see who could work for the Nazi’s and who would be killed.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific and dehumanizing occurrences that the human race has ever endured. It evolved around cruelty, hatred, death, destruction and prejudice. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population. He killed thousands of Jews by way of gas chamber, crematorium, and starvation. The people who managed to survive in the concentration camps were those who valued not just their own life but others as well. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, expressed his experiences very descriptively throughout his book. When Elie was just fifteen years old his family was shipped off

During the Jews stay at the concentration camps, the Nazis and SS officers treated them very poorly and completely ignored the fact that they are also people and should be treated equally. According to Wiesel’s memoir Night, they were being tormented, mistreated and were thought to not be important.

     Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle. Moshe is taken away and sees an entire train of people murdered by the Gestapo. He returns to Sighet and tries to warn them, but no one believes his story. The Nazis come and take over Sighet. Elie is moved to a ghetto, along with all the other Jews in Sighet. They soon are taken away in a train to Auschwitz.

Imagine being worked to death, fed only a small amount of food, tattooed with a number on your skin and have that number be your only name for now on for the rest of your life, which ends by being burned to ashes in the crematoriums. Elie Wiesel in the book Night, claims that Jews were mistreated by the Nazi’s during WWII in concentration camps throughout Europe. The Jewish people were not only mistreated but tortured in horrible ways. Elie Wiesel's book shows the horrors that were committed by The Nazis towards the Jews throughout The Holocaust.

During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.

Think of the most horrifying or gruesome act in all of history. Does the Holocaust come to mind? During the Holocaust over 11 million people died. Elie Wiesel survived the death camps during the Holocaust. Throughout the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he tells of his horrific journey during the Holocaust and shows his many accounts of bodily and emotional endurance.

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.” -Norman Cousins

Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie recounts his experience in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Elie, his father, and the millions of other prisoners endure horrific abuse and torture inflicted by the S.S. officers. Throughout the novel, Elie and the other prisoners survive being horribly tortured and bullied by the S.S. officers, while many people witnessed it, but did nothing to help. Bullying and the bystander effect are depicted throughout Wiesel’s novel, and Wiesel also addresses them in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

According to article five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article five, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” (United Nations Department of Public Information ). In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel narrates his story as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. The captured Jews were sent to concentration camps where they received the absolute worst forms of torture, abuse, and barbaric treatment. The diabolical treatment has clear physical effects, but it also ventilates psychological changes on those that are unfortunate enough to encounter it. However, these transfigurations to their complexion and righteousness cannot be accredited to the weakness of the Jewish adore, but rather to the remorseless treatment they received. Elie Wiesel, in his novel Night, exhibits the brutal torture and punishment he receives, in order to display just how horrendous the German Nazis’ dehumanization of the Jews was.

Some people think of night as Just When the sun goes down, but night in the period of the Holocaust resembles death darkness and defeat. the Holocaust was a period that started after World War 1 on January of 1933 and ended on May 8th of 1945. Around 11 million people were killed including the sick and disabled first. Why does Elie keep saying night fell what is the significance of night? My essay addresses the prompt in three paragraphs. One Elie always falls back to the Night two in literature bad things always happen at night and three night resembles a dark period such as the Holocaust.

Furthermore, the Nazis treated the Jews like they were animals. For example, while Eliezel was at Buchenwald camp, and it was announced that the camp would be expelled, “there was no further distribution of bread and soup…we had not eaten for nearly six days …” (114). The Jews received horrible treatment that is definitely not suitable for humans or even animals to live in. They were treated harshly and expected to work hard even when they received little to no nourishment. In addition, the Jews were expected to follow every order, no matter how embarrassing or belittling it was, even if it included running naked. Eliezel described having to run naked for the first time in camp, saying, “we were naked, holding our shoes and belts. An order:

Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences

day before, one of which was merely a child so light in weight that he

Not only were Jewish prisoners treated like animals the Nazi’s also vocally told them how worthless they were. The Jews were told that they were going to be treated like animals by the Nazi’s. For example, while the eighty imprisoned Jews