A Nobel Peace prize winning writer and the author of the book Night, Elie Wiesel states “to forget the holocaust is to kill twice.” The meaning of this is that it happened and can happen again. Throughout this essay I will be telling you the importance of remembering the holocaust and how much of an impact it has made.
The lesson to learn from the holocaust is the danger of silence. The holocaust did not start in the gas chambers, but with words and actions that nobody said or did anything about. Things like this still exist, it doesn't mean it's accepted, but it can happen. It's important to remember because people who have not experienced it in the near future need to be aware that there is a large scale of evil in humans. After all Germany was a civilized country before the nazis came into power. This just goes to show how powerful silence can be.
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The amount of survivors still alive today across the world is in the low hundreds of thousands, and dwindling. But what's most important is how much of an impact it has had and how much it will continue to have. "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(pg. 32).” Elie writes about how this horrible experience has impacted his life and how it has continued to even since the holocaust ended.
“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me(115).” This just goes to show how awful the holocaust was and how much of an impact it can make. Just because it's over doesn't mean it should be
Though it took 10 years for Wiesel to speak of his tragic memories of the Holocaust, he does an excellent job of fearlessly sharing his story for the others who cannot. His struggles with faith and search for meaning are inspiring. Night immediately grabs the reader’s attention and holds it until the last page; it leaves the reader yearning for more stories of Wiesel life. Works Cited "Elie Wiesel Interview -- Page 3 / 4 -- Academy of Achievement."
An estimated 11 million people died in the Holocaust. 6 million were Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout his book he describes the tremendous obstacles he overcame, not only himself, but with his father as well. The starvation and cruel treatment did not help while he was there. Elie makes many choices that works to his advantage. Choice plays a greater factor in surviving Auschwitz.
Six million Jews died during World War II by the Nazi army under Hitler who wanted to exterminate all Jews. In Night, Elie Wiesel, the author, recalls his horrifying journey through Auschwitz in the concentration camp. This memoir is based off of Elie’s first-hand experience in the camp as a fifteen year old boy from Sighet survives and lives to tell his story. The theme of this memoir is man's inhumanity to man. The cruel events that occurred to Elie and others during the Holocaust turned families and others against each other as they struggled to survive Hitler's and the Nazi Army’s inhumane treatment.
Elie Wiesel has gone through more in life than any of us could ever imagine. One of my favorite quotes from him says, “To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.” In his novel “Night” we are given an in-depth look at the pure evil that was experienced during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. We see as Wiesel goes from a faithful, kind Jewish boy to a survivor. As he experiences these events they change him drastically. We first see a boy with a feeling of hope and ignorance as his hometown is occupied and he’s moved into the ghettos. Then as he’s transferred to a concentration camp he questions his faith and slowly loses a sense of who he once was. But all of this puts him in an important position, he knows that he must share with the world what
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden. Elie Wiesel shows that the relationship with his father was the strength that kept the young boy alive, but was also the major weakness.
During the Holocaust many people were severely tortured and murdered. The holocaust caused the death of six million Jewish people, as well as the death of 5 million non-Jewish people. All of the people, who died during this time, died because of the Nazis’: a large hate group composed of extremely Ignoble, licentious, and rapacious people. They caused the prisoners to suffer physically and mentally; thus, causing them to lose all hope of ever being rescued. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie went through so much depression, and it caused him to struggle with surviving everyday life in a concentration camp. While Elie stayed in the concentration camp, he saw so many people get executed, abused, and even tortured. Eventually, Elie lost all hope of surviving, but he still managed to survive. This novel is a perfect example of hopelessness: it does not offer any hope. There are so many pieces of evidence that support this claim throughout the entire novel. First of all, many people lost everything that had value in their life; many people lost the faith in their own religion; and the tone of the story is very depressing.
Even through all of the pain Elie experiences, he still manages to survive, “The SS had fled and the resistance had taken charge of the running of the camp” (196). All of the hardships Eliezer experiences in the camp were finally coming to an end. Soon, he could be free. A few hours later “At about six o’clock in the evening, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald” (196). Eliezer survives. Throughout his time at the concentration camp, he holds on to his hope, as everyone around him fail to. He continues living even when living meant nothing to him. He is rewarded for his faith later on in life, when he goes on to publish many books and even receive a Nobel Peace Prize. The conclusion shows how even horrifying events can lead to
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, Winston Churchill, once said, “Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” Throughout Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, his faith in humanity, his belief in God’s justice and his childhood and innocence destroyed and changed his identity as a result of his experiences during the Holocaust. Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew in the book Maus written by Art Spiegelman, struggles through life during this European catastrophe, but does not portray a memory as affecting as Elie Wiesel’s. Night and the book Maus both contextually focus on survivors of the Holocaust, but Night illustrates a more graphic and realistic memory of this gruesome event. The portrayal of memory has similar, yet, contrasting effects when Elie Wiesel and his book Night, play a more vital role in remembering the broad perspective of the Holocaust compared to Vladek Spiegelman and the book Maus.
Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said, “There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times.” The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events in the history of mankind, consisting of the genocide of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally handicapped and many others during World War II. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany, and his army of Nazis and SS troops carried out the terrible proceedings of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps, and suffers a relentless “night” of terror and torture in which humans were treated as animals. Wiesel discovers the “Kingdom of Night” (118), in which the history of the Jewish people is altered.
Did you know you could kill 6,000,000, and capture about another 1 million people in one lifetime? In “Night” Elie Wiesel talks about the life of one of those 7 million people going into detail about the living conditions, and also talking about the experiences in the book that happened to him. The book explains how it felt to be in a concentration camp, and how it changed a person so much you couldn’t tell the difference between the dead and the living. Elie Wiesel is the author and he was only around 15 when this story happened, so this is his story and how the events in the story changed him. So in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character , Elie, is affected by the events in the book such as losing faith, becoming immune to death, and emotionally changing throughout the course of the book.
Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.
People may say that the people who survived the Holocaust were lucky, but in reality they weren’t. They faced horrors that are unimaginable, they changed and they have to live with the monstrosity that the faced. This essay is about how Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor and winner of Nobel peace prize, changed during the Holocaust. The book Night is a novel about how Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust and how he changed during the Holocaust. The book shows how a Elie changed in the concentration camp In the novel, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie was affected by the events in the book because he, was poignant shifted, losing/lost faith, and his life in the camps.
“Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” - George Santayana. A lot of people who try to forget the disaster the Holocaust caused usually remember it the best compared to people who try to actually remember the tragedies of the Holocaust, who then forget what happened.
There are many events that have been lost in the folds of time, scattered into the sands of the past, only to be uncovered by the lucky or the persistent. Some have been forgotten for the better, some for the worse, but there are some occurrences that cannot be and must not be forgotten. As I run my finger over the DC Holocaust museum sticker next to my keyboard, I can’t help but believe the Holocaust is one of those occurrences. The Holocaust is a tragic, brutal event that should be better taught, explained and examined in schools throughout the world, both public and private, in order to prevent human society from traveling on a circuit.
I feel that one of the most important lessons to learn from the Holocaust is that power can drive a person to do crazy things. Hitler thought he was all powerful . He thought that he could single handedly take over the world, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill anyone who stood in his way. What we need to learn from the Holocaust is to try our best to not let it happen again.