The Never Ending Night

HOLOCAUST

The term holocaust basically means a complete devastation or destruction. This is how the killing of over 6 million Jews received the name The Holocaust. This was a horrible time in the history of the world where a group of people was massacred just because of what they believed in and how they lived their everyday lives, it was a devastation and destruction of an innocent people. Whenever I think about The Holocaust, my heart breaks. To think of all of the families that were torn apart and the friendships that were destroyed sends a shock of sadness throughout my entire body. My mind races to think of ways that I could sugar-coat this time, to make it as if this tragedy was not nearly as bad as it was, and that people were just over exaggerating. However, this is not possible. The Holocaust did happen and is just as bad as everyone has been telling me. All of the innocent children and adults did die when it was not their time to go. All of the Jews were exploited and looked down on. All of the families did get torn apart and separated from all of their friends.

History repeats itself. Every time this phrase comes up, I hope and pray that The Holocaust would not repeat itself. Everyday we live with the chance of this tragedy happening again. I hope that the leaders of other countries will see the mistake in what happened and will realize that never again should such an event take place. Never again innocent lives should be taken.

What I think about the Holocaust, is basically shown in the picture above. In this photo, it shows mounds of dead bodies, starving people, and dead (sometimes alive) bodies going into the crematoria to be burned. This picture has different images showing all parts of this abhorrent time. Photos are a way to portray what the past weather good or bad. And in this case it was extremely bad.

Elie Wiesel

The author of Night, Elie Wiesel, had a first hand encounter with many hardships. For one, he was a victim of The Holocaust. Elle was only a young boy when he and his family got taken away from their home to be taken to a concentration camp. He is then separated from his mother and sister forever, but luckily, he and his father remain together. Elle describes this time as "an unimaginable nightmare." From there, they are sent to many different camps where they are forced to work with barely any food or water and even occasionally received beatings from the authorities. To endure this sort of torture and to be able to live through it shows a massive amount of strength for a young boy. In my eyes, Elle and the others that survived this horrible time are some of the strongest people around.

Darkness

Throughout the entire novel, you can sense darkness. You can feel the cruelty radiating from the book's pages as you read about the poor beings who used to call themselves human. Night was appropriately named because to the people that suffered through this event, were in what felt as continual darkness and night. "The night was growing longer, never ending" Wiesel said in his book. The darkness was cruel and heartless leaving all the prisoners feeling hopeless, lost, and soul less. From all of the tortuous and heinous acts, the captives remained deeply scared for life. I will never be able to imagine what these people went through.

Courage- Taking Responsibility As We Make Choices

I think that through this entire novel, courage is being shown from the Jews who went through this prison. They lived every single day as best as they could and some of them even survived. It shows a tremendous amount of courage for them. However, I also think that the Nazi's were not showing courage. They were killing innocent people because someone told them to or else they would perish right along with the Jews. If only a small group of people had stood up to the bully's, threats, and violence and had shown some courage, then perhaps today instead of writing about the tragic Holocaust, I would be writing about the strong people who realized that their leader was wrong and millions of lived would have been saved. But in reality, I am writing about the lost lives and friendships, the beaten and dead humans, and the lack of courage.