Alysa Armas Armas 1 Ms. Engelen English 10 20 Feburary, 2017 Night In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel describes his experience with his father while in the Nazi German concentration camps. Eliezer's family and many other Jews that lived in a small town Transylvania town of Sighet weren't able to flee the country when they had the chance. All the Jews were sent to a concentration camp. Eliezer was separated from his mother younger sister but wasn't separated from his father. They lied about their ages so they would have a better chance to be together. Eliezer was very religious and studied the Talmud. He goes to the temple every night but also decides to study Kabbalah. Their experience there was horrifying and changed their lives forever. …show more content…
Moishe the Beadle sees Eliezer crying while praying at the synagogue, and realize they have a connection. Eliezer looks up to Moishe because he is teaching him more about Kabbalah. After a while the Hungarian police expel all the foreign Jews from Sighet. The Moshe the Beadle was a foreigner, him and many others and packed into trains like cattle. Moishe the Beadle returns, and he tells Eliezer his story, he and the others had been brought to Poland. The Gestapo took over and forced the Jews for dig their own graves. The only way Moshe was able to escape was from being shot in the leg and left to die. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad”. (Chapter
Eliezer and his father got separated from his mother and younger sisters. For months in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed inhumane doings that scarred him for the rest of his life. He was forced to work at Buna, a factory, and run on a daily basis to keep himself alive. He became malnourished because of the unappetizing food that they served. He and other Jews were punished and beaten for no reason.
The Night is a book that catches your feelings when you open the book, and is written by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a man that survived the holocaust in Auschwitz. He was born September 30, 1928, and died July 2, 2016. In his book Night, he explains his experiences at Auschwitz. As the book continues to come toward the climax when they arrive at the camp, Elie Wiesel starts to lose his faith.
Micaela Ladjevic Professor Hernandez English 1 Honors October 25, 2017 Title In Elie Wiesel’s holocaust narrative, Night, Elie is a sixteen year old boy who lives during World War II and the Holocaust. In the midst of Elie’s World War II experience, Elie has an extra burden weighing him down-- his father.
After a few months pass, Moshe returns and begins to explain all the horrible things they are making Jews do, including digging their own graves. No one will believe him, which highlights humanity’s way to ignore warnings given even when they catch glimpses of the evil themselves (Wiesel 7). We see other examples of this on the train into Auschwitz where Madame Schächter is attempting to warn everyone of the chimneys and fire, but they ignore, beat, and gag her until she stops talking (Wiesel 25).
Life for them was “normal again,” (6). After some of the Jews were deported, they had to adapt and they did. Once again, “The shopkeepers were doing good business, the students lived among their books, and the children played in the streets,” (6). Everything was going fine except for Moishe the Beadle constantly attempting to warn the people. Moishe the Beadle was right to warn the people to flee.
While reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, one of the things I learned about was the jews living conditions. I read about Elie living them with many other jews and it stuck out to me because how could a person live like that and stay alive? Every jew that was caught was sent to a concentration camp and had a total different way of lifestyle when being held there. Another thing that stuck out while reading the book was the SS officers. The SS officers are Hitler's protective unit.
During WWII many thought the idea of the holocaust was impossible and crazy. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the beadle was deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews. Moshe the beadle somehow escapes the concentration camp and returns to warn the Sighet community about the horrible things the Nazis were doing. The community thought he was insane and took him for a lunatic.
When World War II started, the things they had already experienced had immediately made them depressed and nervous of death. One of the first characters we meet it Moshie the Beadle. Moshie The Beadle is a poverty Stricken, religious man who lived happily just like everyone else. When he is taken to the Galician Forest, the germans force him and many others to dig trenches that they would soon lay dead in. He was shot in the leg but still escaped.
During the 1930s and ‘40s, one of the world’s most depressing time soccured. This was known as the Holocaust. Over the course of the Holocaust, 11 million people died. It was during WWII where the participants were Nazi Germany vs. The Allies. The Nazis targeted the Jewish race and religion because they were “inferior” and imprisoned and murdered them; as a result, six million Jews were killed and countless lives were affected.
"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow." (Wiesel, xiii) So ends the original Yiddish version of Night, with this sad but true vicious cycle, that Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel has broken with his traumatic memoir. He shows the world could not and should not forget the Holocaust, no matter how many sleepless nights or fiery flashbacks it causes, lest it happen again. Way before the tragic events were even being thought of, he was a studious child who lived in the safe and pious town of Sighet.
The Belief of God and Spirituality The novel Night, by Eliezer Wiesel, is a book written about the author himself. It is about his experiences and challenges he had endured during the Holocaust, as he is Jewish. Eli questions his belief within faith and spirituality due to the severe conditions and situations he was put in. In the beginning of the book, he mentions the fact that he was separated from his family when put into the camp.
Eliezer Weisel had a peaceful young soul, spending day and night learning Kabbalah and Talmud like if he didn’t, he’d have no reason to continue breathing. But at the age of fifteen, he was removed from his home in the Jewish ghetto abruptly, never to return again. While he and many others in his small town of Sighet were warned about the death and destruction to come, no one listened. When Eliezer Wiesel finally made it out of the dehumanizing death camps, that small worshipper who had gone in, would never come back out. Eliezer Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust; a hero.
Eliezer’s best traits come out and allow him to survive his terrible ordeal, which are adaptability, determination, patience, and perseverance. Elie uses his father as his reason to persevere and keep on going through. For example, whenever Eliezer’s father dies, Eliezer loses all function and does not even want to recount how empty and lonely he felt. On page 32, Eliezer describes how great his fear of
No one knows where they are going and many are excited, except for Moishe. Moishe has learned of the horrors of the Nazis and what they are doing to the Jews. They are killing them in horrible ways, but no one wants to believe Moishe. This really lowers Moishe’s spirits because he knows that what happened to many other Jews will soon happen to all of his friends after they are relocated. Groups of Jews are moved out day by day and Eliezer is in the very last group.
Eliezer’s relationship with his father contrast with other father-son relationships because they