Essay Sample on The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Night

📌Category: Books, History, Holocaust, Night
📌Words: 529
📌Pages: 2
📌Published: 14 March 2022

Elie Wiesel’s famously renowned novel, “Night,” is a story about the dreadful life of living in one of the death camps in World War 2. At the time, when Elie was sent to his first death camp, he was at the age of 15. The death camp he went to was named Auschwitz, which was in occupied southern Poland. The death rate in Auschwitz was around 1.1 million out of 1.3 million, which is 85% of how many people were there. It has also been estimated that around 6,000 Jews died every single day. He claims the smell of the bodies burning was something he could never forget in the time he spent there. Another thing he noted was everything inside of the novel were the things he could never forget.  

Auschwitz was described as brutal, dangerous, and pure hell to stay in. People who were interviewed, even after 80 years, still could not forget what it felt like to be in the camp. Elie felt the same way. In the terrible Auschwitz concentration camp, Eli faced many horrors. He had to witness his dad dying, witness people thrown into human-sized furnaces, go on death marches, and he was tortured by the Nazis nearly every day for simple mistakes. He began to no longer believe in his religion. He said that he felt as if he lost all his faith. In the novel, Elie Wiesel said; “The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain.” This event describes how he completely lost hope and no longer felt anything. 

People who were in Auschwitz, or any death camps, felt like Elie did. They all felt as if they were animals, which was even said in interviews. Elie noted that he looked in the mirror after 11 months in Auschwitz. He described himself as a corpse. He had been starved, abused, and scarred. He was completely stripped of his normal life, now just feeling as if he had no place in the world. Elie really did feel like a lifeless corpse.  

Another way people suffered in the death camps, apart from being gassed or burned, were experiments. The Nazis tested on the Jews very cruelly with various things. Most experiments were meant to develop treatments for various things. It may sound like a harmless thing to do, but how they tested them had malicious intent. They tested if the Jews could survive mustard gas, phosgene, and other things. Nearly every single test subject died. There are multiple documentaries on this topic, an example being the twin experiments. 

The things that Elie Wiesel and others faced were traumatizing. The holocaust is one of the most recognized events in history, and for an exceptionally great reason. Even though the holocaust was a petite part of World War 2, we still never forget it. World War 2 killed at least 85,000,000 people (about twice the population of California), and 6,000,000 died in just the holocaust. That is around 7% of the entirety of all who had died. 1.5 million of the 6 million were also children. The very disappointing thing was that only 10% of the Germans who worked at the camps were put on trial, and practically none of them were sentenced jail time. All of the camps were truly horrible, and it is sad to know that we treated regular humans as if they were dogs.

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