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(This site contains pictures that may disturb you)
Ellie Wiesel
On Tuesday, May 16, 1944 Elie Wiesel along with his mother, father, and sister were deported
to the concentration camp of Auschwitz. For almost nine months Elie Wiesel and his father lived within the death camp created
by the Nazis in Buna-Monowitz, a sub-camp of Auschwitz. Of all the memories and images that have haunted Wiesel
while at Auschwitz, the night in which Wiesel first arrived in Auschwitz is among the most graphically disturbing and
emotionally troubling for Wiesel. In one night, he lost his mother, sister, and God.
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"Night" is an emotional reminder of what went on in the concentration camps
during the holocaust. Ellie Wiesel harnessed his emotions and feelings from his life and expressed them in this emotional
thriller about a boy and his father trying to survive in the concentration camps, Aushwitz in particular. Everyone should
take the time to read Wiesels work so that humanity will never forget the hardships and hell that 6 million Jews went through
during WWII.
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| Ellie Wiesel at Buchenwald |
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| Jews being transported in trains |
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If you ever get the chance to visit a museum specifically focused on the holocaust, then you will
learn of how the Jews were deported and moved from camp to camp. They would be crammed into a small boxcar on a
train with as many as 80 people in one car. There was little room to move, and it was either scorching hot or freezing cold.
Many of the passengers died before they even made it to the Nazi death camps. It is said that they were the lucky ones who
were spared eternal suffering from the camps. Most, if not all the Jews, were deported to the concentration camps by train.
After the long miserable ride with little room or air to breath, they were unloaded off the cars and separated into two groups.
Those who could work and those who would die because they were too weak or young. This was known as the selection, and is
usually associated with a man named Dr. Mengele.
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| In Memory of All Those Who Suffered |
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