8A Night Blog 2018

After reading night, watching movies, videos and documentaries about the Holocaust, my understanding of the Holocaust is so much clearer. I always knew that it was a huge tragedy and millions of people died, but I did not know many details that I know now. I think going to the Holocaust museum was a great way of showing what all really happened, even though the experience was hard. Something that really stood out to me at the Holocaust museum was the room full of shoes of people who were killed. This stood out to me because being so close to something that was taken away from people who were about to be tortured and killed left me speechless. Reading Night  gave me a good understanding of what life was like for a Jew who was a victim of the Holocaust and it felt like Elie Wiesel took me along his experience with him. Watching the documentary of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, was one of my favorite parts about learning about the Holocaus...

Run Faster and Faster No strength left in our bodies Keep going We must fight for our lives If we slow down Our fight is over Run From dusk till dawn Hoping That we will not collapse And what would happen if we do? Death. People going down one by one Praying That they will not be the next one to go

In Elie Wiesel's Night, "good" and bad luck is an important”,”, recurring theme. Throughout the book, there are many situations of "good luck" which was normally being in the right place at the right time or, there was bad luck which was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Please sir... I'd like to be near my father." " 'All right. Your father will work here, next to you.' " "We were lucky." (50) This is "good" luck because the person Elie asked to sit next to his father was nice enough to allow Elie to be able to sit next to his father. There also happened to be room for his father next to him. Elie wanted to keep a watch over his father to make sure he his safe. This quote is around the middle of the story where I think it was one of the hardest times for Elie “One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating ...

Four Jewish children laugh and talk outside the Konvo ghetto in Lithuania.  Taken by George Kadish https://collections.ushmm.org/iiif-b/assets/706623 https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1045736

Elie Wiesel’s Night is a moving story about the tragedy and loss that was taken place during the Holocaust: “A German officer lodges in the Khans’ house across the street from us. We were told he was a charming man, calm, likable, and polite. Three days after we moved in, he brought Mrs. Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimist's were jubilant: ‘Well? What did we tell you? You wouldn't believe us. There they are, your germans’.” (10) At first, this quote confused me because I did not know why the Germans were being kind and generous to the Jews. I later realized that the Germans wanted to gain the Jews trust so when the Germans were ready, they could turn on the Jews and nobody would expect it. This was smart of the Germans, but this made me feel bad for the Jews because they were so vulnerable at that time: “At the start of the third week, our Blockalteste was removed; he was judged too humane, The new one was ferocious aides were veritable monsters.” (44) I think this is so sho...