"Night" by Elie Wiesel
Memoirs about the Holocaust can be very graphic, as was the one I most recently read. The title of it is "Night" by Elie Wiesel, and it is his recall of his experience during the Holocaust. It is a story I would tell people to read in order to grasp an understanding of how truly horrible the Holocaust was and still affects the people who were involved in it.
Elie Wiesel wrote this telling of his experience in hopes that the Holocaust will never be repeated. He writes it thinking that not many people will accept it, but then realizes that even schools have put it in their curriculum for the children to read. He tells it using a made up character, but uses that character to show of his own loss of faith and how he lost his childlike persona.
He tells about the horrors of the crematoriums. He said the stench of burning flesh was awful, and every time there was a selection it was terrifying not knowing if you or your loved one would end up being sent to burn to death. If you were a strong person, you tried to hide that from the Gestapo because one man was strong and had to put his own brother into the crematorium. It truly was an awful thing to watch the weak be separated from the others and sent off toward the towers of smoke and flame.
Wiesel also told a lot about the cold weather and how they had to work in the extreme conditions of snow. He once had a sore on his foot and it just got worse and worse although he had surgery done on it because he still had to continue to work. Some people just gave up as they had to run to another camp to work, and they would end up crushed under the many people trying to hurry to their work place.
Many a times the people just had a small piece of bread as their ration and would try to hide it so the others wouldn't take it. There were times people killed somebody they seen with food so that they could take the food for themselves because they were so hungry. The people were fed soup too, but only the ones in the hospital had thick soup; the soup everybody else ate was watery. Elie said he would sleep and dream but the dreams were always about the same thing: soup.
This story was very graphic but also very interesting because it really happened to Elie Wiesel. It tells in great detail the horridness of the concentration camp, so that maybe we can do something to cause it to never be repeated. Elie wanted it to be a memorial not only to those that lived through it but to honor the ones who were killed and/or died during the Holocaust. It's a story everybody should read to truly grasp what happened during the times in the camps.
Memoirs about the Holocaust can be very graphic, as was the one I most recently read. The title of it is "Night" by Elie Wiesel, and it is his recall of his experience during the Holocaust. It is a story I would tell people to read in order to grasp an understanding of how truly horrible the Holocaust was and still affects the people who were involved in it.
Elie Wiesel wrote this telling of his experience in hopes that the Holocaust will never be repeated. He writes it thinking that not many people will accept it, but then realizes that even schools have put it in their curriculum for the children to read. He tells it using a made up character, but uses that character to show of his own loss of faith and how he lost his childlike persona.
He tells about the horrors of the crematoriums. He said the stench of burning flesh was awful, and every time there was a selection it was terrifying not knowing if you or your loved one would end up being sent to burn to death. If you were a strong person, you tried to hide that from the Gestapo because one man was strong and had to put his own brother into the crematorium. It truly was an awful thing to watch the weak be separated from the others and sent off toward the towers of smoke and flame.
Wiesel also told a lot about the cold weather and how they had to work in the extreme conditions of snow. He once had a sore on his foot and it just got worse and worse although he had surgery done on it because he still had to continue to work. Some people just gave up as they had to run to another camp to work, and they would end up crushed under the many people trying to hurry to their work place.
Many a times the people just had a small piece of bread as their ration and would try to hide it so the others wouldn't take it. There were times people killed somebody they seen with food so that they could take the food for themselves because they were so hungry. The people were fed soup too, but only the ones in the hospital had thick soup; the soup everybody else ate was watery. Elie said he would sleep and dream but the dreams were always about the same thing: soup.
This story was very graphic but also very interesting because it really happened to Elie Wiesel. It tells in great detail the horridness of the concentration camp, so that maybe we can do something to cause it to never be repeated. Elie wanted it to be a memorial not only to those that lived through it but to honor the ones who were killed and/or died during the Holocaust. It's a story everybody should read to truly grasp what happened during the times in the camps.
