Elie Wiesel Night Discussion Questions
February 27, 2012
Night Discussion Questions: Chapters 8 & 9
Dylan Gnatz
4. Wiesel reports that after Buchenwald was liberated, the prisoners had no thoughts of revenge. Is this surprising? The prisoners’ lack of will for revenge is in no way surprising. The Jews held in the concentration camps had little will to survive after liberation, let alone seek retaliation. The entire point of the concentration camps themselves was to exterminate the Jews, both physically and mentally, and they were terribly effective. The atrocities these humans underwent had an immense toll psychologically, and succeeded in breaking their spirit. The fact that the prisoners had no thoughts of revenge is simply a testament to how horrendously successful the
Night Discussion Questions: Chapters 8 & 9
Dylan Gnatz
4. Wiesel reports that after Buchenwald was liberated, the prisoners had no thoughts of revenge. Is this surprising? The prisoners’ lack of will for revenge is in no way surprising. The Jews held in the concentration camps had little will to survive after liberation, let alone seek retaliation. The entire point of the concentration camps themselves was to exterminate the Jews, both physically and mentally, and they were terribly effective. The atrocities these humans underwent had an immense toll psychologically, and succeeded in breaking their spirit. The fact that the prisoners had no thoughts of revenge is simply a testament to how horrendously successful the