8A Night Blog 2018

As I reflect on our studies on the Holocaust, my beginning knowledge on it and my knowledge at the end is unfathomable. My view on the world and history has changed immensely, as I do perceive people more on how they act and how they are, instead of how Hitler saw the Jews, just for being different from him because of their religion. I recall in the Life is Beautiful how the wife, Dora, chose to go to the concentration camp with her family, although she was not forced to because she was not Jewish. The Germans were splitting up families for no reason, and although the film was fiction, it was very brave of Dora to join her family to go to the concentration camp. The film also brought me to understand on how hard it must’ve been to keep spirits high, and to manipulate one's child, as Guido did with his son, Joshua, and make them believe that everything would be alright. In the film, Guido had his son believe that for them to get out of the concentration camp, they had to earn 1,000 ...

Faith Something that can be Lost But can also be  Received  For in the  Holocaust Faith was being  Lost At some instances Faith seemed all gone For there was nothing more To live for But at the end  Their faith  Was back once more

As were are starting to finish up Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, I am starting to get a better understanding of how it was living as a Jew in the concentration camps during the holocaust. “ What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?” (Wiesel 66). In this passage in the book, I am getting an understanding on how the Jews faith was starting to diminish, and how they were starting to question God’s existence. I do enjoy Wiesel’s writing for this very reason: that he takes us into his thinking, and makes it as though we are there with him, questioning God’s existence also. In addition to the first quote where Wiesel was losing faith he writes later: “Where is merciful God, where is He?” someone behind me was asking. (Wiesel 64). Right now, mostly all the Jews were questi...

https://collections.ushmm.org/iiif-b/assets/717829 Two American men jokingly saluting Hitler. Photo taken by Karekin Jelalian in Circa around July 1944 - August 1944

In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, we are introduced in Wiesel’s life during the holocaust and how he survived throughout the terrible time. On page 32, Wiesel is talking about how they were throwing the Jewish babies into the flames without hesitation. This got to me because of how the Germans could just through living people into a fire, just because they are Jewish. “ Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes . . . children thrown into the flames” (Wiesel 32). I do like Wiesel’s choice with his words in this passage and I do enjoy on how he uses the words. I do enjoy on how he makes it seem as if I am right there with him in his writing, it captures me into the book unlike many others can do. I did notice in his writing throughout page 47 that he uses many one word sentences. The second passage in the book that we've read so far is on page 6, where Wiesel is explaining how the adults woul...