Over ten million people perished during the
holocaust eight million of them Jews. Everyone who managed to survive remembers
the
holocaust and everyone has their own stories about the tragedy. Some stories are more powerful than other. Some sadder than others, but each story makes you think: How? Why? Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is his story. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells us about his experience with the Nazis from Nineteen forty two to nineteen forty five. At age twelve Elie is deported from his home in Transylvania, Hungry and sent to a ghetto in the center of town. He is then packed on a train and sent with his family to Auschwitz. On the train a woman named Madame Schachter starts screaming about flames and a furnace other try to silence her but she manages to scream anyway. In Auschwitz Elie’s family is split up. Elie remains with his father but he leaves his mother and two sisters, he later learns they are cremated. After spending time in Auschwitz he is sent of to Gleiwitz and then Buchenwald. In Buchenwald his father dies, but The Jewish Resistance Movement is able to liberate the camp before any more Jews were executed. A couple hours later American tanks arrive and relieve the camp. Elie’s memoir describes the heartrending account that the Jews and other minorities faced in
concentration camps. He describes in detail the grim horrors that he witnessed. Such as, Mother’s helplessly watching as their children are cremated. And people being forced to walk great distances almost naked. Eli remained the only survivor of his family. He describes the horrors he experienced such horror’s we could not even imagine. Several people Eli encountered stood out in his memoir. One person encountered is Moshe the Beadle. Moshe is a simple but wise man and the caretaker for the synagogue. Eli befriends Moshe and they study Kabbala together. Moshe is the first to be deported and first to witness the extermination of the Jews and goes back to warn the other but no one listens to him. Often the wisest people in society are the ones who are considered outcasts Moshe risks his life to warn others yet no one believe him. Another person Eli encounters is Madame Schachter a middle aged woman who people believe gone mad because she begins to scream about fires when they are no fires present.