Inhumanity In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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The Holocaust was arguably the worst tragedy to have ever been forged by the human race. Millions of Jews, homosexuals, disabled people and more were slaughtered by Nazi Germany. There are hundreds of novels and movies telling the stories of those who lived to tell their story of being in the Holocaust. While their stories may have varied, there is always one underlying similarity: inhumanity. Whether the injustice came from SS soldiers or the victims of the Holocaust themselves, brutality and cruelty are ever present. One survivor, Eliezer Wiesel, tells of his time in the Holocaust, and how the experience changed his whole world. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s Night, the reader witnesses many Jewish people transform from peace-loving believers, …show more content…
When the treat of the resistance over throwing the Germans becomes too real, SS soldiers are ordered to move the prisoners from Auschwitz to another concentration camp, Buchenwald. The prisoners are forced to run the entire trip, never getting a break from the exhaustion. Eliezer runs with his father the whole way, even when his father slows and holds Eliezer back. When night falls and they are forced to stop, a man from their camp, Rabbi Eliahu, inquires to the crowd, asking if anyone has seen his son. When he approaches Eliezer, Rabbi Eliahu speaks, “It happened on the road. We lost sight on one another during the journey. I fell behind a little, at the rear of the column…my son didn’t notice” (Wiesel 91). Eliezer, having run near the rabbi’s son, came to the conclusion that his son had known his father was falling behind and chose to leave him. “‘Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me [Eliezer] the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done’” (Wiesel 91). Despite his own father becoming a burden to Eliezer, instead of contemplating leaving his own father, Eliezer shows compassion and caring. Eliezer does not show discontent or ill-feelings for his father even though his father harms Eliezer’s chances of survival, showing that Eliezer has not been hardened into a brutal
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