Ghetto In Night

The Novel Night by Elie Wiesel is an intrinsic, mind-altering legacy of words shared with the world by a survivor of the Holocaust, himself. Growing up, Elie’s jubilant mind was like a clean slate, pure and content with his life in Sighet, Transylvania, but not for long. In 1941, Elie was acquainted with Moishe, a passionate Kabbalist, and sage. Elie treated him as a mentor or religious instructor. Trauma consumed him at the age of 14 though as Jews of Sighet were abducted by Hitler and taken to Auschwitz: the most toxic death hazard. Breaking the serenity of Sighet, Moishe the Beadle makes a bold entrance in town rabidly to warn the people of Nazis approaching, with a goal to abolish all Jews. He claimed that he, himself had been abducted

Then, suddenly, the German fascists had taken over the government. Not long after, the German attacks started to augment. Eventually, they figured what Moishe had warned them about earlier was, tragically, very true. All Jews had been expelled from Sighet and transferred to small ghettos. Living in the tiny ghettos, it was very cramped and there was barely any space to sit or lay down. Surrounding the ghetto were barbed wire, encircling them like a wall. But, there was no genuine happy living under the Germans’ control. One day, Jews had been crammed into compact cattle cars and once again, taken away from what they were deceived to think of as their home. For several, long, unbearable days on end, deprived of living necessities, the Jews lost sanity. One woman had boisterously thrown a tantrum, claiming there was a fire. The Jews saw no fire; they thought she just seemed crazy and pitiful, so they offered her a comforting gesture of solace. As the woman persisted with her tantrums each night, people slowly lost their patience; they could no longer find any pity or mercy for her. They had later found out that the woman was right; there was a fire, inside the

They continued to survive on three edible morsels a day, working for their lives. Death became common, maybe even excessive; wrongfully, it occurred several times daily. It was nothing out of the ordinary. Jews had no rights; golden teeth were ripped out of their mouths for their value. Elie was drained of hope; he no longer believed that god was their savior. He thought it was foolish the way people still had faith in him. Youthful teenagers had given up on their ill fathers; they were sick of having to care for the people they’d once loved and found it pointless since they were “as good as dead”. Elie still had a remnant of humanity and faith, spiritually within him, so he thought differently. He wanted to continue caring for his father; he believed that it was the moral thing to do. Elie felt the need to pass this