Ms. Olivas
English II Period 1
28 March 2017
Synthesis Essay
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”― Elie Wiesel. In the memoir, The Night by Elie Wiesel tells a story how twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel himself spends much time in trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In a train car eighty villagers have to survive on slightest food and water. When Elie Wiesel is 16 the United States Army in April 1945 saved him, but it was too late for his father, who died after a beating. “I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.”-George Takei. A similar memoir is Farewell to …show more content…
During the Holocaust, every person has a chose to stop this monstrosity going on around them. Just pretending not to know will not make it go away. Although the conditions were very rough Elie Wiesel faced he still stayed true to who he was. The friendships he made and his father, he protected them in the camp. Elie teaches the reader about friendship is understanding the value of connecting, helping one another and being selfless. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”-Elie Wiesel. When Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to the ghettos, Elie Wiesel begins to hate the germans. Elie Wiesel wished harm to the germans, but what tells the reader that holding a grudge and wanting someone to have pain and suffering is not the answer. “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human being endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” -Elie Wiesel. Throughout the memoir Elie Wiesel discusses the importance of having dignity, no matter how horrible conditions they were in. “Even in darkness it is possible to create light”- Elie Wiesel. Faith played a big part in the memoir The Night. Because Dr. Mengele chose to experiment on, and many Jew began to lose faith, especially Elie Wiesel. …show more content…
The Holocaust serves as a brutal reminder what can happen when one group of individuals stops seeing another group as human beings. Don’t let the forgotten war be forgotten. “I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.” -George Takei. Although these tragic accidents happened if survivors never said made their voice heard, people would have never know what they went through and think it’s just another thing that’s