Night is the story of Eliezer who is a Jewish boy growing up in Hungary. Eliezer has three sisters Hilda, Béa and Tzipora and lives in a family the closely follows its Jewish religion and culture. The plot begins when Moshe, a teacher of Eliezer, is kicked out of Hungary along with other foreign Jews. After months Moshe returns having escaped from the Gestapo. He tells everyone how his train was handed over to the Gestapo and how they were systematically murdered. No one in the town believes him and everyone thinks he’s gone crazy. Short after the Nazis totally invade Hungary and Elizer’s family and other Jews are oppressed and forced to live in small ghettos in the town. Soon Eliezer and his family along with the other Jews in Sighet are loaded into trains to travel to Birkenau. The Nazis told them it was a labor camp where they could stay with their families but soon after arrival Eliezer and his father are separated from his mother and sisters. Eliezer and his father meet many others just like them and one man who they befriend tells then to lie about their age because they learn at Birkenau if you are unfit to work you are immediately killed. In the camps Eliezer and the other Jews are treated cruelly, are barely feed and forced into slave labor. Eliezer does all he can to keep faith under these horrible conditions. Soon after their arrival in Birkenau he and the other workers are forced to march to Buna the main work camp. After weeks of bad conditions and seeing the death of countless others many Jews including Eliezer, start to give up hope in others and begin to lose their humanity. After months in the camp Eliezer hurts his foot and is forced to undergo foot surgery. While he is still recovering the Nazis get notice that the Russians are closing in and they decided it a good time to evacuate the camp. Eliezer along with the other prisoners are forced to run many miles through a blizzard to another camp called Gleiwitz. This is very hard for Eliezer with a bad foot and there are other countless Jews who die along the way. At Gleniwitz Eliezer and one hundred other Jews are forced to board a train to the concentration camp Buchenwald. When the train arrives in Buchenwald only twelve of the one hundred prisoners survived including Eliezer and his father. Eventually Eliezer’s father dies in the camp from sickness and abuse. Eliezer continues to hold on and is saved when the Americans liberate Buchenwald and defeat the Nazis. 1) Do you think you would be able to keep faith and survive facing the severe cruel treatment Jews had to endure throughout the Holocaust?
2) How would you feel if one day like Eliezer you were separated from your family knowing you would never see them again?
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I don't know if I would be able to keep faith while in a concentration camp. Especially after my father dying, I would find it very hard to keep living while everybody around me died and became sicker.
I'm not sure if i would be able to keep faith if I were a Jew during the Holocaust. It is hard to believe in something that you think should help you get through hard times when so many bad things continue happening.
It would be hard to be able to keep faith if I were a Jew during the Holocaust. With so much happening going on it would be hard to believe in something. However, it would be nice to keep faith and always believe, but in the situation I don't think I would be able to.
1. I've never been a religious person. If I was facing the treatment they had, I would not be able to keep the faith at all. I would drop it like a rock from seeing what was going on. I would lose it if it meant that I got to survive.
2. That would be horrible. I think I would lose a lot of my will to go on. Family means a lot and knowing that they were all gone would make it hard to find a reason to make it through something like this.
2. I would be devastated if that were to happen to me. It's one thing to be separated from your family knowing that one day you will see them again, but to never be able to see them again would be awful. And during the Holocaust... as Kaitlyn said, I agree that it would be very difficult to make it through something like this with all those hardships placed on you.
2. I most likely would not be able to keep going. My family is very close, and losing them would be like losing everything. That is a devastating thing and the fact that people have really had to live through things like this makes me sick. No one should be separated from all the people that they love and care about.
To answer question 2 if I was seperated from my family knowing I would never see them again I have no idea what I'd so. I mean that's my family, my life. My whole life would just shatter right before my eyes
2. I think that it would be very traumatizing to be separated from the first people you saw and the people that have taught you the first things you have ever learned. Psychological diseases might overtake the mind and that would just add to the awful pain.
I believe you have to embrace life no matter how rough it gets since it will always become better either with better times and experiences or with peace, even if it means death by any hand but your own.
2) I can't imagine having to be in this situation. I would feel horrible if this ever happened to me. I don't think I would be able to comprehend what had happened for a while. Then I would feel hopeless and lonely.
I agree and think it would be hard to keep faith when facing conditions like the Jews did durring the Holocaust. With all the bad things that were happening it would be hard to look for the positives and hope things would get better.
I also agree it would be horrible to have to face a sitiuation like Eliezer where i would never see my family again. I would leave me with a lonely and helpless feeling losing my family that i am so close with. It would be a tramatic event that would make me question how my life would go on.
1.I think that it would be easier to live life back then if I kept faith. Faith gives a person something to believe in and something to live their life for. It would be hard to, but I feel that I would probably keep it.
2. I would feel scared. I would not know what to do. My family means everything to me and without them I would be completely lost.
2.) I would probably become really depressed and be quite lost. I used to not care so much for family because I was always the black sheep, but in the past few years I have learned to appreciate my family more and see all the things they do for me. I would try to stay as positive as I could, and try to search for them just so I would know that I never gave up looking.
I believe that if I were to be facing the treatment that the Jews had to endure I would not be able to keep the faith. I believe I would probably end up doing whatever I could do to get out of being treated that way, even if it meant denying my faith because I do not have a very strong faith.
2.) if I were in that situation I would probably give up. Without hope of being reunited there would be no reason to fight.
If i was separated from family and know that i could never see them again, i would be terribly heartbroken and depressed. My family means everything to me and i would not be where i am today without them. That would be a tragic experience to lose your ties to your family forever.
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