Hardships In Night
“Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? ( Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-- that’s where you’re going to be taken…” (Page 40) Night by Elie Wiesel, published in the year 1956, is about Elie Wiesel and his horrible experience throughout the Holocaust. The book starts with twelve year old Wiesel evacuating from his home, and eventually separating from everyone in his family but his father Shlomo. For a majority of the novel, Shlomo is Elie’s reason to keep trying. Elie and his father remain together for their entire journey, and keep each other going. At each camp, the pair are given jobs and face extreme hardships not only from their labor, but guards and staff at their camps. Towards the end of the
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In an article from LA Times called “Holocaust Survivor Provides a Lesson in Perseverance”, the reporter recaps the speech a Holocaust survivor named Sam Silberberg gives to fourth and fifth graders about his experience. While in the concentration camps, Silberberg’s entire family had been killed by Nazis except his mother. With some creativity, persistence, and withstanding the camps, Silberberg reunites with his mother. “This was just the break Silberberg needed as he eventually reunited with his mother. The rest of his immediate family, including his father, died at the hands of the Nazis.” If Sam had given up and thought that he may never see his mother again, he never would have seen her. But, because of his perseverance, Silberberg and his mother were reunited. Mother and son are reunited because of their love and belief in each other. Like Elie, other Holocaust survivors have written memoirs. Many are known well today. One of these survivors is Mariam Blumenthal Lazan who is known for writing the memoir Four Perfect Pebbles. An article from The Mirror TITLE OF ARTICLE website states “ Lazan testified to the power of hope and human beings ability to persevere and overcome adversity”. Perseverance and their persistence to live on carried these people through the worst years of their
In an article from LA Times called “Holocaust Survivor Provides a Lesson in Perseverance”, the reporter recaps the speech a Holocaust survivor named Sam Silberberg gives to fourth and fifth graders about his experience. While in the concentration camps, Silberberg’s entire family had been killed by Nazis except his mother. With some creativity, persistence, and withstanding the camps, Silberberg reunites with his mother. “This was just the break Silberberg needed as he eventually reunited with his mother. The rest of his immediate family, including his father, died at the hands of the Nazis.” If Sam had given up and thought that he may never see his mother again, he never would have seen her. But, because of his perseverance, Silberberg and his mother were reunited. Mother and son are reunited because of their love and belief in each other. Like Elie, other Holocaust survivors have written memoirs. Many are known well today. One of these survivors is Mariam Blumenthal Lazan who is known for writing the memoir Four Perfect Pebbles. An article from The Mirror TITLE OF ARTICLE website states “ Lazan testified to the power of hope and human beings ability to persevere and overcome adversity”. Perseverance and their persistence to live on carried these people through the worst years of their