Remembering In Elie Wiesel's Night

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a boy named Elie explains his experiences throughout the Holocaust. His family and other Jews were expelled from Sighet and ended up in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. During this time, the only thing the Germans couldn’t deprive the Jews was their hope and humanity. Within the memoir, the theme presented is, “We must never forget, never forget...Human hope & faith must never die…”.

The Holocaust changed the lives of many. Those that survived have many terrifying stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too shocking to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust. "Night", his powerful and moving 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. 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 Elie's own personal experience. Usually, a person can internalize a situation better

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.

As the famous journalist Iris Chang once said, “As the Nobel Laureate warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.” After experiencing the tragedies that occurred during the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel narrated “Night”. Eliezer wrote “Night” in an attempt to prevent something similar to the Holocaust from happening again, by showing the audience what the consequences are that come from becoming a bystander. Elie illustrated numerous themes by narrating the state of turmoil he was in during the Holocaust. In Night, Eliezer provided insight into what he experienced in order to teach the unaware audience about three themes; identity, silence, and faith.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel he explains the events and his personal trauma during the Holocaust. Elie explains in his memoir about how Jewish people were treated and dehumanized in different concentration camps. He writes about his personal experience of being a Jew in the 1940’s. Elie gives the readers a first hand experience of what himself, and millions of others went through. Even after experiencing trauma at such a young age Elie Wiesel still felt it was his duty to make sure the Holocaust wasn’t forgotten. He wrote over 40 books in his lifetime so that lives will never be forgotten.

Death. Sad. Pain. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie recalls about the Holocaust

In the preface of Night by Elie Wiesel, he believed that “I need to give some meaning to my survival”(viii). After enduring the pain of this tragic event, Elie Wiesel wanted to preserve the history of the Holocaust. He felt like it was his moral duty to tell his story so that he can prevent history from repeating itself. Elie Wiesel didn’t want the experiences and stories of the Holocaust to be suppressed, in which he decided to write a book about his incident. In an interview with Edith Goldberg from “holocaustlearning.org”, she decided to tell her story and observed that if “they don’t teach it right it doesn’t come out right”(Goldberg). Edith Goldberg was hesitant to talk about her experience for 30 years, for she didn’t want to relive the past. However, she decided to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust to prevent a similar incident. She believed that if she didn’t speak out their experience, people will start to interpret and misunderstand history. Lastly, a survivor named Eugene Black from “holocaustlearning.org” said in an interview that “live and let live because we only here for a short short while”(Black). Eugene Black realized that people needed to acknowledge the tragedy of concentration camps, in order to preserve history. After his survival, he learned to forgive others so he wouldn’t be overwhelmed with hatred in his

Memories, extremely difficult to forget, will never disperse for Elie Wiesel. In Wiesel’s novel Night, Wiesel recalls his first night in a concentration camp to figuring that he may never have a future. In Wiesel’s novel Night, Wiesel shares unforgettable memories from the Holocaust, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. […] Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (32). One’s attention will be directed to the nonfictional event of the

Elie Wiesel’s nonfiction novel Night shares the author’s experience in Auschwitz which demonstrates the importance of memoirs. Throughout the novel, Elie’s experiences in the camp are narrated allowing readers to see into the young boy’s life. Seeing into the life of Elie enables readers to empathize for the young boy when he or his father is mistreated. By writing a nonfiction, readers are more likely to empathize with the main character since that individual exists. When readers are able to empathize with certain characters, the novel becomes more significant. Relating to Elie helps readers recognize the Holocaust in a different way. Instead of just learning about the event, readers are able to empathize with those who have suffered. Additionally,

Night gave Wiesel a fair amount of fame, but that is not the important part. What is important is that it gave the world a new perception of the Holocaust, and opened up people’s eyes to the almost unspoken suffering at the concentration camps.

11 million lives were stolen. That many hearts were broken. Hundreds of books, magazines, and newspapers about the holocaust were sold. But Night by Elie Wiesel touched the hearts of millions. Each and every word written in his novel not only teaches people about the horrible experiences of those in the holocaust, but the book also explains how people act the way that they do. In his memoir, Wiesel exposes how people are either selfish or selfless, emotionally fragile and blame their faith in times of hardship.

“Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself,” Elie Wiesel once said when speaking of the Holocaust. After surviving the terrible ordeal, Elie wrote a powerful memoir called Night that informed the readers about the conditions of concentration camps and the horrible treatment of Nazi’s towards Jews and many others. Throughout his time moving from one camp to another, Elie experienced many events that changed him forever. Beginning the story as a fifteen-year-old boy, Elie changes emotionally, mentally, and physically because of the Holocaust.

The world will always remember the Holocaust and the deaths resulting from the Nazi concentration camps. Jews and other prisoners were subject to torture, starvation, and murder while most of the world was unaware of these events. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he ensures that no one forgets the genocide of the Jews by explaining how they lost their faith in God, experienced brutality, and became selfish in order to survive.

From 1941-1945, up to six million lives were systematically slaughtered by the Nazi regime in Europe. Never before in history had such brutal mass slaughtering occurred. Survivors, like Elie Wiesel, bravely came forward to share what they experienced by oral stories, memoirs, or interviews. In Night, Elie Wiesel brings to light what people had to endure in his memoir saying,“We had transcended everything-death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die” (Wiesel 87)... When the reader first sees Elie, they see a devoted student to the Talmud and a person who places great emphasis on family. Yet in the camps, Elie no longer holds the same faith above all, clings to his family, and can only focus on the next bowl of soup. What he once held in so high regard is radically changed by the end of the book. Elie Wiesel shows that even the deepest rooted priorities can be shaken by experiencing peril and suffering.