Essay On The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Night

📌Category: Books, History, Holocaust, Night
📌Words: 668
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 10 June 2022

Every art piece holds a different interpretation for different people. This particular art piece is one of many ways I see the Holocost and how it affected its innocent victims.

This work of art that I’ve created, came from a great deal of pain and sorrow. The idea I was trying to get across when creating it, was that of power dynamics, and the dehumanization of the Jews. I’ve tried to create something that shows the entraption of Jews, the guiltiness and power the Nazis held. To show that, I tried to convey it in the colors, and details of the drawing. The red on the representation of the Nazi, showing their gult. The gloomy skies,  and details on the fence, showing darkness and entraption. The placements of each of the details, to show their power over something else, like the Nazi over the Jews. My hope was that this would make people see that it was not just one thing the Jews were put through, it was a multitude. That maybe in some slight way, I could bring awareness to the situations I read about, that stuck out to me.

Each part of this piece holds a divergent meaning, all connected by the horror that was the Holocost. The chief idea of my composition was dehumanization and all the effects from it. Thought the genocide, against mainly the Jewish population, the Nazis put them through horrors, that made them loose vital parts of themselves, like morality, and faith. The Nazis, in the book, Night, by Elie Wisel, constantly degraded and treated the Jews as if they were anything but human, giving them the barest, just so they could survive another day of torutre. This is conveyed in my composition, by the intricate details, and the big picture as a whole. The drawing shows the power dynamic the Nazis held over the entrapped Jews, like Elie. The boot looming over the hand, is what represents the Nazis, and the cut up hand reaching up, the Jews. This is important because it showed that in the camps, the Nazis were considered the superior being over the Jews, holding all of their power over the Jews to do as they please. The blood dripping off the Nazis boot shows how they are the guilty, evil party in the Holocost. Torturing, even killing,  those considered beneath them.  Like how the Nazis, in the book Night, would whip, burn and torture, children and adults. This power dynamic contributed a deal to the dehumanization of the Jews. With this power that the Nazis had, they used it to treat the Jews horrible, dehumanzing them. “I became A - 7713. From now on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). The Nazis did not feel as if the Jews were human, they made no effort to recognize their names or the horrible lives they were living. To the Nazis, it was another ordianry day, to the Jews, it was another day of torment, dreading the next. This repetition of trourment to the Jews, made them lose their morality, because it soon became a hunt for survival, every man for himself. We see this with Rabbi Eliahu’s son. How he deserted and left him for dead during a run to a camp, but no one is to blame for that, but the Nazis. Not only was there a loss of morality, there was also a loss or waiver of faith for many, including Elie.

In the beginning of the book, we see that Elie is very devout to practicing his religion, but as he is put through the horrors of the Holocost, we see him slowly question and waiver that faith. This shows how much power the Nazis held. That they could ruin the very things people believed in. Make them think their religion turned their back on them. Although this left me stupped when trying to show it in my art, I showed the loss of faith, with the star of David, a symbol of jewish faith, in the sky with an angle turning its back. Representing how Elie felt like he was abandoned to his fate, because the very thing he believed in, was not helping him. The moment the Jews were forced into the concentration camps, their lives were completely changed forever.

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