Night__Elie_Weisel

Night: Elie Weisel Night, By: Elie Wiesel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical account of a child’s experience during World War II, more specifically, the Holocaust. The atrocities he witnessed as both an observer and victim are difficult, if not impossible, for me to fully understand. Intellectually I can create a picture in my mind with the graphic descriptions Wiesel used, but I can not begin to feel anything near to what a survivor surely does. In this essay I will attempt to answer two questions raised by Ronnie S. Landau in “The Nazi Holocaust”; one, “Why do the Jews appear to have offered so little resistance everywhere' (Is that even the right question')”, and second, “And, finally, a question that dominates Holocaust literature: is this catastrophe that overwhelmed the Jews of Europe an incomparably unique historical phenomenon, or is it a case within the category of genocide'”. As I sit in the comfort of my home with the freedom to do as I please, it is very easy for me to criticize the victims of the Holocaust for not rebelling against their captors. After the fact, it is easy to look at all of the components, and consider night, jews, wiesel, holocaust, world, never, first, being, been, shall, people, forget, one, nazis, life, even, elie, victims, question, nothing, murdered, because, little, killing, jewish, human, gold, god, genocide, food, faith, experience, examples, death, cannot