Monday, June 2, 2008

In the last chapter of Night, by Elie Wiesel the men are let out of threw blocks and are free. The loss of Elies father had taken a toll on him and he would only think of food and extra food.

Elie would be sent to a child’s block and would just sit there day dreaming. He wouldn’t think of his father or mother any more. It was a hard loss and he would only want to survive. He couldn’t wait for soup and extra soup was a real treat.

One day the Jewish men noticed that the SS man was very late and this was the beginning to the camps freedom. The men would be moved to another camp where they would be sent out into freedom every day. There was a little commotion when the red army had finally made it in. Elie was let go and given some food. Elie would become ill but fortunately pull threw and live after being treated at a near by hospital.

In this chapter of Night, it is a struggle for Elie to try to convince his father to stay alive. He wanted to rest instead of going threw a hot shower and getting into a cot. He said it would take to much energy. This was hard on Elie because he wanted his father to survive instead of dieing. He had fortunately made it to the cot but was terrible sick.

Elie did every thing to the best of his ability to save him. He would give him most of his portions of the bread and soup and would try to get him to a doctor. He finally got him to a doctor but he wouldn’t help Elies father. This was hard on him. He had done every thing he could to keep him alive till one day he woke up and his father had been taken away.

In this chapter of Night, it is a struggle for Elie to try to convince his father to stay alive. He wanted to rest instead of going threw a hot shower and getting into a cot. He said it would take to much energy. This was hard on Elie because he wanted his father to survive instead of dieing. He had fortunately made it to the cot but was terrible sick.

Elie did every thing to the best of his ability to save him. He would give him most of his portions of the bread and soup and would try to get him to a doctor. He finally got him to a doctor but he wouldn’t help Elies father. This was hard on him. He had done every thing he could to keep him alive till one day he woke up and his father had been taken away.

In this chapter of Night , the men are lying down beside one another trying to keep warm. They had made it this far and only had a couple of days left to get to the new camp. The men start to become crazed for any piece of bread that the German workers would throw over into the train.

Many men stated to die in these conditions, with the snow falling, wind blowing, and little to no food to eat it was hard for the men to make it. The men who died would be thrown into a wagon and taken away. Elie’s father almost was taken because he wouldn’t wake up, but fortunately Elie saved him by shaking till he woke up.

With the bad conditions the men could only try to stay warm to survive. They would have their wet blankets on their shoulders. They would stay close to one another, and would try to move in place just trying to make it another day.

They had finally made it to Buchenwald the new camp. With many dead, the men who survived got out of the train. Fortunately Elie and his father had made it out of the hundreds who died.

Friday, May 23, 2008

In this chapter of Night, by Elie Wiesel the men are moving to a new camp one that was far away. With the little food that the men had in them they were forced to run hard for several house. They were in the snow and were doing all they could so they wouldn’t die.

The men were on a light march to the new camp till they were told to run. The men would run as fast as they could with out stopping for long period of time. They could not stop or take a break or else they would be shot. This harsh run took a toll on a lot of the men. Many could not make it and it seemed horrible to hear the gun shots because they would only mean one thing which was death. On this run Elie had felt that he was separated into to things, one his mind and the other his body. He didn’t like his body because it was slowing him down. He was frightened when he had felt he could not make it. But this would not stop him fortunately. His dad had encouraged him to make it he told him that it wasn’t to far.

The men had finally made it and they were all forced to lye down even if it meant that you were on top of someone else. As many tried for air it was very difficult. Elie would have to do the same because he only had a little air. This forced hi to claw at the person on top of him with his nails. It would tear away skin and was his fight to live. Fortunately he made it and recognized someone and would talk to them shortly. He and his father had made it this far. They would have to get up shortly and have to stand in the frigged cold. They would eat little bread and for water the snow off the man in front of them back.

Friday, May 16, 2008

In this chapter of Night, by Elie Wiesel the Jewish people are coming up on the Jewish New Year. Also, the Germans are checking the Jewish people conditions and seeing who will be taken out of the camp.

Elie is now starting to question his faith and wondering why he would still be there if God actually was watching over them. He said that he stopped praying. But when the New Year came he went to the camp were all the men went to have a mass. He was didn’t say happy new year to the others because he felt it was not right. When he approached his father he noticed he felt the same way as him and didn’t wish him a happy new year. Reading this book I can see how it may cause people to question their faith. I could especially see this in a young person like Elie who is trying to figure out where he is going with his life.

As the Jewish people in the camps are getting checked over by the doctors head to foot people arre wondering if they are going to be called out and killed because they are not strong enough. Elie had passed the test and his father thought he did bet he was wrong. He found out the next day that he had his number written down which means he didn’t pass this was bad. Elies father gave him his knife and a spoon because he knew he was going to be killed. But later he found out he had one chance to save himself. He took the test one more time and fortunately passed.

Friday, May 9, 2008

In this chapter Night, you see Elie and his father they are on there way to a camp to work. They could not choose the camp and they were inspected by German doctors. They finally are moved into a camp and worked in an electrical building where they would be used for distributing materials.

Going threw the line of the medical doctors Elie was asked if he was healthy and then the next doctor was a dentist and he was only checking for gold teeth and implants. Elie had a gold implant and was put on a list not by name but number that was tattooed to his arm. He was later asked to go to the dentist where they would extract it, fortunately he procrastinated and the dentist was arrested for selling the gold teeth and crowns. Later, a SS man asked Elie for it and in return he would help Elie out by giving him extra food. Elie would refuse this until the man had made it to torturous for his dad who he would beat because he didn’t know how to march correctly. He finally gave it up, not knowing that in a week he would be moved to a different camp.

Earlier in the day Elie and his father were talking to veterans and were asking which the best camp to be sent to they said it was Buna. This was fortunately where they later would be sent to work with electrical materials. It was an easy job with a nice SS officer in command and good living conditions. Fortunately the material was not live with electricity and was easy to handle. This is where Elie and his father would work side by side sorting material.

Near the end of this chapter the men were given little hope with U.S. bombings happening around the camp and destroying some of the camps. This reassured the men that one day they may be free and them some motivation to live.

Friday, May 2, 2008

In this chapter of Night, by Elie Wiesel the Jewish people have to leave there belongings behind on a wagon that they arrive at the camp. The people were separated by gender, men to the left and women to the right. They are now in the concentration camps and have to move from harsh treatment and conditions.

Now Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sister. The two groups of men and women went separate ways now. Elie and his father were told they were going to the crematorium; they started to believe this when they saw the flames. Elie was now considering taking his life then, by just running into the electric barbed wire fence, so that he wouldn’t have to go their a slow and painful death.

In the camp Elie was nervous, with noises from men shouting and having to leave his mother and sister. In the camp the men were told to strip down to just shoes and a belt, it was cold now and the men were all trembling. They were told they would get new clothes soon, but this wouldn’t happen till a few days latter. Later, the men were told to run now to another camp in Auschwitz. In this camp it was much better; they started with a hot shower and a new pair of cloths. They would wake up at ten o’clock, receive soup in the morning take a nap in the evening, and receive bread at night. Elise and his father were not sure if they wanted to be transported now to a new camp because they were making out ok but many people were being moved. Unfortunately, their choice was made by the Germans and now they are moving to an unknown destination.

Monday, April 28, 2008

In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel it talks about the Jewish people from the ghetto who are traveling on a train to the Germans camps. The passengers on the train ride had such deplorable conditions that it was difficult for them to endure. One poor mother was pushed past her breaking point and she completely broke down. It was not surprising because the people seemed to be treated more like cattle than human beings.
The Jews were packed so tightly on the train that they could not all lie down or sit down at the same time. There was little food and the water was running out. They said that the lucky ones got a window seat with the little air that there was and this allowed them to be able to see the blooming country side. When the train stopped in Kaschau, a small town ion the Czechoslovakian boarder, everyone was shocked. There they were inspected for the last time for jewels and watches. If anyone was caught later with valuables they would be killed on the spot.
On the train there was a mother named Mrs. Shachter who was emotional distraught because her husband and two older sons were taken on the first transport. This left her with only her younger ten year old son. She started with questions of where they had been taken and then started to cry and scream hysterically. The trip had been so hard on her that she became what some people said to be “mad”. She screamed Look! Look at the fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me.” When people looked out the window they saw nothing and tried to get back to sleep. She had started to do this more often and people started getting angry and it was starting to take a toll on them. So the people started to gag and beat her. Even this would only work for a short time. This was hard on her son who held her and was terribly upset but sat beside her the entire time. Finally, they got Mrs. Shachter to stop and the passengers started to forget about her.
The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, begins with Jews of Sighet, who are being taken over by the Germans in Transylvania. The Jewish people are forced to begin a journey they never expected.

The author tells of a man who entered life without a name but the town’s people called him Moishe the Beadle. He a homeless man, who stayed out of people’s way and bother no one. Moishe the Beadle had apparently mastered the art of remaining invisible and appearing insignificant among others. He spoke little and would chant about the suffering of the Shekhin in Exile. A young boy who had seen Moishe the Beadle in the Synagogue thought he was unique. The boy wanted to have him as a master, one who would teach him the Jewish Zorah, the Kabbalistics works, even though his father said he was too young. So the boy talked to Moishe the Beadle about being his master and the Moishe the Beadle started helping him. Moishe the Beadle said “not learn it by heart but to discover within the very essence of divinity”, so he helped the boy enter the Jewish mysticism. Moishe the Beadle was taken by the Hungarian police one day and was sent on a train where he crossed the boarder into the Polish land. In Poland, he was sent on a truck to the Galician forest where he and other Jewish people were made to dig a trench. One by one, each prisoner was forced to run to the trench as the Germans shot at them. Moishe the Beadle had survived and made it to town where he told the town’s people in the Synagogue the day he got back. He told them that the Germans were coming and about his narrow escape back to the town. Upon hearing his account, the town’s people started to think he was insane and began to dislike him because they could not believe such an atrocity could ever happen.
Few Jewish people gave much thought of the Germans coming to their town. Many people thought that the Germans would only occupy their town for a short time, since the red army would liberate them. The town’s people believed the red army would keep the Germans from taking them away. The Jewish people’s hopes were shattered when they told to gather all of there things into one back pack and prepare to leave the next day. The next day, the Jewish people were moved to the smaller ghetto, and they were no longer in there own homes. They were forced to live with cousins and other people in homes that had windows sealed shut.
After a few days in the ghetto, they were the last ones in the town to depart. They had agreed to leave by themselves after they were checked for gold, jewelry and other valuables, which the Germans ordered them to give up. So, the last group of town’s people started walking and could only wonder where they would end up.