Elie Wiesel Essay -- History, The Holocaust, Nazis

No one experiences such a terrible event as the Holocaust without changing. In Night, a recital by the Jew Elie Wiesel, the author describes his torture at the hands of the Nazis. Captured with his family in 1944 (one twelvemonth before the end of the war), they were sent to Auschwitz to come before the stern Dr. Mengele in the infamous selection. There, Elie parted from his mother and sister leaving him with his founder who was similarly busy to spend any time with his son before the camp. under the Nazis control, Elie and his father moved to several camps including Buna. The Nazi regime deprived Elie...of the intrust to lived..., which murdered his God and soul and turned my dreams to dust(32).Prior to the war, Elie lived a highly spiritual and innocent life. Elie possessed a very inviolable interest in Jewish beliefs. At the untried age of 12, during the daytime he studied the Talmud, and at night he ran to the synagogue to weep over the last of the Temple(3). E lie attacked the faith with such a vigor that he, asked his father to perplex Elie a master to guide his studies of the cabbala, but his father responded, you argon too young for that... only at thirty that one had the office into the perilous world of mysticism(1-2). At such a young age, Elie followed the Jewish faith with a vigor uncommon for his age his father kept him grounded in a world of reason. Even when the Nazis were taking the Jews to the parsimony camp (though they did not know where they were going), Elie, got up at dawn. he wanted to implore before the Jews were expelled(16) Even as Elies freedoms vanished, he still maintained a sense of faith as a crutch. This also shows how Elie still was a child at the time, not aware that the G... ...had but one desire_to eat. He no longer thought of his father or mother(107). The war left over(p) him crushed for life without any attachments to reality or sympathy for his family he had cried his last tears. Following t he camp, Elie only existed as a body wanting(p) basic necessities without a soul or passion.The Holocaust changed Elie from a ghostlike child to a mindless body who lost all artlessness at age when he was fifteen years old(96). He wanted to study the cabbala and grow up quickly. The flames of the furnaces and the noose on the necks of fellow prisoners stole that desire from him and all the prisoners leaving empty bodies to prepare for the Nazi regime. Such horrors forced any man to abandon his passions if he wished to survive to the next day. The effect the war had on the Jews makes the claims of Holocaust deniers unbelievably ignorant and cruel.