Comparing Survival In Elie Wiesel's Night And Solomon Radasky

The memoir,”Night”, shows the perspective of Elie Wiesel, a young boy that was sent to a concentration camp alongside hundreds of other Jews, that lost their valuables , faith and family.The terror within the concentration camp slowly deteriorate the Jews ,physically and mentally.The jews had a choice to be selfish or selfless,given the jews’ situation it is best to do what was in their best interest. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir, “Night”; many individuals had a hard time navigating the brutality within the concentration camps.Through these times of brutality, many people in the camp had to choose to either be selfish or altruistic. Given the jew’s situation, it is better to act selfish than to be altruistic.

In class we previously read the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. This book told the story of young Elis’s life as he suffered through the holocaust. As we all know the holocaust was a very dark period, where millions upon millions lost their lives. Prisoners from all over were taken and jailed in concentration camps where they were tortured endless with no boundaries. Along the way to liberation many lost hope and gave up completely. Certain traumatizing events affected the prisoner's hope along with the inner and outer forces.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

The Holocaust was not only a way for the Nazis to purge the Jews, it was also a movement for a new way of thinking, that as long as the person in front of you holds a military-grade firearm there is nothing you can do to change your fate. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his journey through life in nazi concentration camps. Elie struggles with his faith and morality as he and his father witness the horrors of the Holocaust. Night reveals that it’s in human nature to hope for survival through religion and faith, however it can also fail in the most trying of circumstances when you have to relent to authoritarianism.

World War II is a very impactful point in history where the Holocaust is viewed as one of the worst acts of human genocide. Countless Jewish victims endured traumatizing amounts of suffering and pain that transformed their lives as these experiences deprived them of their humanity and trust in others. The novel ‘’Night’’ depicts the extraordinary and painful experiences that many Holocaust prisoners endured: portraying the traumatizing effects it had on the survivors. The novel is written by Eliezer’s perspective as a survivor whose faith in god, faith in humanity, and sense of justice in the world are affected by the impact of his experiences during the Holocaust. Eliezer lived in Sighet, a town in Hungarian Transylvania, growing up to study the Torah and the Kabala with the help of a friendly teacher named Moishe the Beadle. Eliezer receives lessons from Moishe the Beadle who instructs and teaches him about Jewish mysticism and about Jewish culture. Eliezer’s willingness and motivation to study his religion highlights his devotion and strong faith towards God in the beginning of the novel but later disintegrates as he experiences the process of selection and the Germans’ Final

“I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his hole support.” (Wiesel,87), states Eliezer in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Throughout his memoir, Elie Wiesel perceives how humans commit evil out of fear, however, Wiesel’s relationship with his father made him stronger, gave him purpose, and made him human in spite of the evil that surrounded them. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews suffered the atrocities that the Nazi put them through. For example, the Nazis forced them to live in inhumane conditions in ghettos, cattle cars, and concentration camps. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, NIGHT, examines the Nazi’s process of total annihilation of the non-Aryan race through cruel acts of dehumanization. Elie’s only chance at survival was to stay faithful to protect his father’s life and his hope in that he would remain alive.

The Holocaust brought out savagery, brutality, and callousness towards the humble, innocent Jews. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays his life of living through the holocaust with his father, starving, working, and striving to live through the viciousness and death around them. Throughout Elie’s experience through the concentration camp, his story shows survival is what sustains us, survival of the fittest.

During the Holocaust, the survivors experienced torturous events that led them to lose their beliefs and identity. In the story Night, Elie Wiesel saw children burning in the crematorium and he commented that “Never shall I forget the flames that consumed my faith”(34). His experience of

After reading Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the reader traces Elie’s life through his experiences in the Holocaust. Examination of what he sees and feels makes evident his change from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. By exploring his life before deportation, at Auschwitz and at Buna, the path of his deterioration is markedly clear.

When condemned to torture and inhumanity self-preservation will begin to arise. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor discusses the pain and struggle he and millions of Jews endure. Nazis acts of cruelty upon people in concentration camps bring out a theme of every man for himself. Wiesel shows readers through his point of view how he deals with others and himself succumbing to self-preservation.

In situations of crises, people can have different reactions; some people might be destroyed by the hardships associated with being forcefully imprisoned in concentration camps, others may transcend above these crises through their strengths. In fact, many people in the Holocaust reacted differently; some by rising above with strength and determination while others exiled their faith to the shadows forever. Throughout history, several different reactions have been accounted for but some do not take the time to think of why survivors reacted in the manner that they did. By doing this, many people will gain greater insight on just how devastating the Holocaust was, even though some chose to make light out of darkness. Therefore, though the Holocaust is a despicable time in history, many chose to write memoirs about it in order to share their tales of both devastation and conquer to all who were unaware of the Holocaust’s significant affect on people (since many chose to turn their heads the other way while this was happening.) Overall, there were mixed reactions regarding the Holocaust, some using it to make themselves stronger, while others were severely affected; suffering from blows that would never heal.

“We had forgotten everything- death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die… We were the only men on Earth.” These powerful words of Elie Wiesel were used to recount the suffering of a Jewish person during the Holocaust. Similar accounts abound throughout the story of the Holocaust, which is arguably the most widely known genocide in history. The Holocaust was the mass murder of more than six million European Jews (along with gypsies and other people deemed “undesirable”) in concentration camps by the German Nazis from 1941-1945. It is a narrative of a human injustice at the hands of a government, but it is also one of resilience and the refusal to be silenced. Historians have pieced together the story of the Holocaust predominantly from the perspectives of its victims because their firsthand accounts of the event provide a new point of view that contributes in narrating its story. Through the eyes of the victims, we catch a glimpse of what it’s like to be denied basic human dignities, to be forced to abandon all that you previously knew to get away from those who intend to kill you, and to feel helpless as the circumstances you’re under tear your family apart.

The holocaust can be defined as one of man’s darkest periods. The Holocaust forever changed the lives of many. Those that endured and survived have many shocking stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too appalling to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust in his book called Night, his moving and powerful story, touches the hearts of many and teaches his readers a great lesson. He teaches that in a short span of time, the ways of the world can change for the worst. Eli shows readers which beliefs were instrumental to his survival during the Holocaust. He wants to make sure that if the world didn't learn anything from hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust, maybe they'll be able to learn something from Eli's own personal experience. Acts carried out by the Nazi party to forcefully remove all "inferior" people including those of the Jewish faith were more than inhuman and malicious. Those in the concentration camps were deprived of nourishment, sleep, family, and most of all, hope and faith. In Eli’s book as well as real interviews from survivors from the Holocaust, readers will be able to decipher how survival can be defined in relation to the Holocaust. The most influential beliefs that were instrumental in helping these survivors survive the holocaust was their dedication to god, their will to survive, belief in family

“The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews” (“The Holocaust”). But, not all the Jews died, some even shared their story with the world. One example of this is Elie Wiesel and his book Night, which he wrote sharing what happened to him during the Holocaust. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he writes to us about how being dehumanized can change an individual both physically and mentally.