Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust was a time in history that was very very difficult. Hitler who was the leader of Germany, had much hatred towards Jewish people, because of this hatred, he acted very negatively towards the Jews. Lots of the time people don't understand how bad it actually was for Jewish people. Hitlers acts of hatred were so bad and harmful to the Jews. Hitlers goal was to rule the world and he did not want anyone that he did not like in his way, so he tried getting rid of them all. There are so many first hand accounts of all of these things Jews went through in the holocaust. So many terrible things were happening to Jews and to any people that Hitler and the Nazis did not like. Survival was very hard for the Jews. Sometimes though, it was

Towards the end of the story in the memoir “ Night” the Jews were running and if they stopped they would get shot. As they are running Ellie says to himself repeatedly, “ Don’t think, don’t stop, run”(Wiesel 86)! At this point in time Elie could have just given up and died because of all the suffering he was going through. Instead he kept going and made sure he would stay alive through all the pain. A while later people were still struggling and everything was just getting worse. People were not getting any better. Everyone's strength was gone and all that was left was weakness. As they are sitting there suffering, Meir Katz says to Elie’s father “Shlomo, I am getting weak. My strength is gone. I won’t make it…”(Wiesel 102). Elie’s father then replies, “ Don’t give in! You must resist! Don't lose faith in yourself” (Wiesel 102). People tried the best that they could to be encouraging to the people they knew but at the same time they knew it was not enough. Some people just wanted to die. Meir Katz knew he wasn't going to make it much longer and he could have just given up and stayed there, but the little bit of encouragement helped

In the “Diary of Anne Frank”, the Frank family got a letter that Margot had to go to the camps. At this point, they knew that they then had to hide. They needed to do anything to stay away and hidden from the Nazis. They decided to hide above a work building that people did not know about in the attic. This was their way that they were going to be living life as long as they needed too. As the Frank family got there and settled in, Mr. Frank strictly told everyone, “The men come at about eight-thirty and leave at about five-thirty. So to be perfectly safe from eight in the morning to six in the evening we must only move when necessary. We must not speak above a whisper. We must not run any water. We can not use the sink or even forgive me the w.c. The pipes go down through the workrooms. It would be heard. No trash…” (Goodrich & Hackett 108). There were so many things they could have done. They didn't even have to go into hiding, they could have just went to the camps like the Nazis wanted. Instead they chose to survive no matter what that meant. They were going to do anything. Instead of giving up they hid and knew that they had to do all of these things that Mr. Frank was telling them because they wanted to be able to stay hidden for as long as possible no matter what that