Holocaust

The Term Holocaust:

The Holocaust was the mass killing of all the Jews (and other minority groups) throughout Europe, better known today as genocide. It happened in Concentration Camps that were located in Nazi Germany, which was basically almost all of Europe. It happened because: The Nazis hated the Jews, just hated their existence, they claimed that the Jews were the reason for everything that was going wrong in Germany and the rest of the world, and they believed that they were not a part of the "perfect" Aryan race. So, they came up with a "Final Solution" to kill them all.

The Author; Elie Wiesel:

Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust. Wiesel went through tremendious agony and horror at an early age, the Nazis offenders took the lives of many of his family members and friends. He is still alive and filled with the memories of the tragedy. The novel Night is a look into the life of Elie Wiesel, the readers get to expirience to a smaller proportion, what he felt and went through at the hands of the Nazis. I believe Mr. Wiesel wrote his novel so people would never forget the Holocaust. People will always remember the struggle that the Nazis put the Jewish people through.

Symbolism; Darkness:

Darkness in Night symbolize a world without God's presence. The Bible begins with God’s creation of the earth. When God first begins his creation, the earth is “without form, and void; and darkness is upon the face of the deep” (Genesis 1:2, King James Version). God’s first act is to create light and dispel this darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence. In Night, Wiesel shows this allusion. Night always occurs when suffering is worst, and its presence reflects Eliezer’s belief that he lives in a world without God. The first time Eliezer mentions that “night fell” is when his father is interrupted while telling stories and informed about the deportation of Jews. Similarly, it is night when Eliezer first arrives at Birkenau/Auschwitz, and it is night—specifically “pitch darkness”—when the prisoners begin their horrible run from Buna.