Experience In Night

The novel Night is Elie Wiesel’s memoir that shows his traumatic experiences during the Holocaust and how the Holocaust changes him from a spiritual, sensitive young boy to a unspiritual, internally dead man. The changes that take place in Elie’s life are very evident as you read his memoir. The Holocaust began January, 30th 1933 and ended May, 8th 1945. These 13 long years were a life time for many jews, in this period of time they not only lost many family members and close friends, but many lost hope that there was even a God.
Before the Holocaust began Elie was a very spiritual young boy, who wanted to further his knowledge in the Jewish faith. “[Elie] believe[s] profoundly. During the day [Elie] studied the Talmud, and at night [Elie] ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.”(Wiesel, 1) Elie asks his father to find him someone to guide him with his studies of the cabbala. His father tells him that he is too young for that but Elie takes matters in his own hands and reaches out to Moshe the Beadle and asks him to help him strengthen his knowledge in the Jewish faith. Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, many days, and many weeks had passed and life just returned to it normal ways. One day Elie was on his way to the synagogue he saw Moshe the Beadle sitting on a bench outside the door of the synagogue. Moshe the Beadle told Elie and all the other Jews in Sighet what he had experienced, The foreign Jew were made to dig big graves when they finished digging the graves the Gestapo began to kill the Jews one by one, each Jew had to go up to the grave they dug and the Gestapo shot the Jews in their necks. No one believed him, not even Elie. Until Elie and the rest of the Jews learned that they were going to be deported, and the ghettos were going to be wiped out. The Jews were on there way to their first concentration camp and for some it was their first and last and for others it was the first of many. …show more content…
The Jews were packed into a small cattle train one of the Jew from Sighet named Madame Schachter kept yelling out that she saw fire in the sky, out in the distance. No one believed her until they arrived at Auschwitz they had to be separated, men to the left women to the right. The Jews saws the flames, the flames that Madame Schachter was talking about in the cattle train is the crematory that Nazis are sending Jews to, to be exterminated. Elie and his father are sent to the left, while they are heading to either the prison or the crematory the don’t know yet, Elie witnesses trucks deliver babies to the pit. Elie saw children being consumed with flames. Elie and his father end up at the prison instead of the crematory. This night Elie will remember for the rest of his life, “never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.” (Wiesel, 32) This night for Elie is more than just a night, it is the night he is separated from his mother and sister, it is the night that he witnesses Nazis in action, it is the night he see children, babies, and adults being consumed with flames. Elie, his father and many other Jews stayed in Auschwitz for three long weeks, then they were moved to the next concentration camp, Buna. Upon the arrival of the Jews to Buna, the camp seems to them as empty and dead. They only saw a couple prisoners walking in between the blocks. A few Jews asked veteran prisoners about the camp, and they told the Jews that Buna is the most tolerable camp. The Jews had been in Buna throughout the summer, the summer is almost over, and the Jewish year is almost over also. One the evening before Rosh Hashanah the camp is stirring with the anxiety that consumed our hearts. They gave them their evening meal and not