Night by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's autobiographical acc
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Elie Wiesel's autobiographical account of his life through the period of the Holocaust, Night, is a terrifying account of the horrors of that period through the eyes of a child who sees his family killed and whose own spirit is sorely tested even these many years later as he looks back on these events. The book is powerful and affecting, and it also serves as a very strong portrayal of the entire era of which the Holocaust is a part. This book presents the real effects of history, not the changes in leadership and the movements of armies but the changes in the lives of real individuals who become the victims of other people's hatreds an ambitions. The book can also be seen as an exploration of personal identity and an attempt for one man to come to grips with the fact that he has survived while so many did not. The book illustrates aspects of the horrors of the Holocaust and complements other writings on that time in history, some by victims and others by observers. The book suggests much about the relationship between the Germans and the Jews during this era in history. The book first appeared in 1958 in France, and it was neither the first book on the Holocaust to reach the French public nor the first book written by a very young person on the subject: But La Nuit was altogether different, as was immediately apparent to anyone who read it. It did not dwell on physical details and horror alone. It was primarily the story of one family's fate, the relationship
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indications of what is happening to other Jews when the community of which Eliezer is a part is moved to the ghetto, but the people do not want to listen to the warnings or even heed what they themselves can see.
These indications were apparent to the outside world as well, though the warnings were not heeded. It was not until after the war when most people realized the horrors that had been perpetrated against the Jews by the Nazis, but it is also true that much of the leadership knew at least that Jews were being imprisoned and expelled, yet they did not make their moral outrage known. We are seeing a similar situation developing in Bosnia-Herzegovina today.
Life in the concentration camps is life completely divorced from the outside world. The people in the camps have little sense of being part of the world at all. Everything they knew has been taken from them, often including their families and friends. Day by day they see others in the camp disappearing and know that they have been killed. they suffer a wide variety of indignities at the hands of guards and simply because of the living conditions. There seems to remain always a sense of disbelief that all this is even happening, and yet a resignation at the s
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