The Holocaust In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

“ Men to the Left! Woman to the Right!” These were some of the first words that Eliezer, only 15 at the time, when the train stopped in Auschwitz. This is where the story of Eliezer’s began, or at least where the horrors of his story began. Just within the couple hours of him being in the Concentration Camp, he was separated from his mother and sister, Tzipora. Even though he was separated from his mother and sister, he was with his dad and would leave his dad’s side, even if he was dying.No matter what he was experiencing, he always wanted to have his family nearby to aid him in the Horrors that were Hitler's regime. He was there to experience all of it, and with his father by his side. Back at his home in Sighet, his relationship with his father was not that good. His father was always in public business or private company business. Even though the horrors continued, he gained a relationship with his father that he would of had before back at

This would make sure that, if one of them were full or was able to gain an extra bowl of soup that day, the other person had the same amount of food as them. This would cause Eliezer and his father to strive longer than the prisoners that were taking other people’s food, rather than sharing the proportions with each other. Eliezer and his father would make sure each one of them were fed until their fateful demise that was the Holocaust. Luckily for Eliezer, he was able to make it out of the Holocaust alive when they liberated the camp in January 1945, however his father wasn’t as lucky. Buchenwald, Eliezer’s father's final resting place, was liberated mere weeks after Eliezer's dad died from dysteria. From that point on, until the liberation, Eliezer felt almost no emotion. Not a single tear was dropped, not a single bit of anger at anyone, not even the SS guards who made this worse than a death