Resumo de Night - Elie Wiesel

1941, Elie Wiesel, a teenager who lived in Transylvania in a town
called Sighet, was among the numerous people who suffered the harsh and
unbearable conditions of Hitler?s concentration camps. He, together
with his family lived a normal and religious life prior to the war. On
1942, Moshe the Beadle, Elie?s cabbala teacher, was captured by the
Germans along with all the other foreign Jews and were deported out of
the country. He went back to warn people of what was to come. Despite
all his warning nobody listened and thought of him as foolish and
crazy. However, as years passed and as the war seemed to end anytime
soon, the Germans start to occupy Sighet. Everything seemed so surreal
to everybody and so they tried to keep an optimistic disposition about
the events taking place. In 1944, the Jews from Sighet were deported to
the concentration camp in Auschwitz. They were later transported by
train; this time their worse nightmare begins. They arrived at Birkenau
and began smelling a stench that of burning flesh and soon realized
that it was burning flesh, flesh of human beings. He and his father
were separated from their mother and sister, since then, they never saw
each other. He and his father survived numerous selection processes.
They both had to take good care of each other, to keep each other
strong until the next selection process or else they were brought to
the crematory where they were burned alive. As time progressed and as
the living conditions became more and more uninhabitable, they both
grew weaker and weaker. As the Russians advanced, the prisoners were
moved to a different camp wherein the last attempt to accomplish
Hitler?s ?Final Solution? was carried out. Although he and his father
survive the deadly winter that they faced on their way there, his
father got sicker and sicker. He later witnessed his father?s
deteriorating health and soon, he died. Elie Wiesel survived. He has
survived the gruesome conditions of the holocaust after being rescued
by the Americans and looks at himself in the mirror and sees, not
himself, but a corpse.

If I were to rate this book, I
would give it a 10/10. This book didn?t only teach me things about
history, specifically the holocaust during the Second World War, but it
also taught me the importance of life and liberty that have right now.
Elie Wiesel did an amazing job in describing the horrible conditions in
Auschwitz that, in effect, gave you an idea of how bad it was.

I have heard about so many things regarding the conditions in the
concentration camps, but never have I had an in depth understanding of
how it really was, not until I read this book. I have learned about the
living conditions in Auschwitz, except now I learned it in detail and
in a day-to-day basis. I learned that in concentration camps, it no
longer mattered if you ate three times a day, it only mattered that you
ate something, even just a bite of bread was important, it may not
satisfy your hunger but it can satisfy your brain. Every morsel of
bread was fought for; it was even fought in exchange for the life of
someone?s own father. This book made me pay more respect not only for
the survivors of this tragedy, but also for the people who went through
it but did not survive. Life was not easy in the concentration camps; I
don?t think it is even worth calling a life.

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