Argumentative Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel
When it comes to wars and genocides, there’s always 2 sides. The side that took a part and the victims involved. In this case, we get to see a Nazi, Auschwitz soldier and a Holocaust victim. Elie Wiesel, a 15 year old, and a Jakob W. who became a Auschwitz guard in the 1940’s. Who’s side would you chose? Elie, victim, or Jakob, Auschwitz guard?
From reading two perspectives of the Holocaust, I am on the side with Elie. Even though Jakob didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t stop them either. I rather fight and try to stop it and save as many lives as I can before following a tyrant leader so I don’t get killed. These Jewish people didn’t do anything to get what they got. More importantly, no soldiers who took a part in guarding for any type of camp didn’t think it was wrong and only thought about themselves dying for not following directions; and there are innocent Jews being murdered. …show more content…
While his time there, his mother and younger sister’s lives ended and his two older sisters and his father survived. Sadly, his sisters were left at Auschwitz and the father and Elie were transferred to Buchenwald. Buchenwald was the camp, which killed off Elie’s last immediate family, the father. Wiesel became the last Wiesel to survive the concentration camps and made better for himself than what some survivors did. Elie Wiesel turned his life around; he studied journalism in Paris and wrote many memoirs about his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His most famous book is called night. After Elie’s recovery, joined/helping other religions, including his religion, judaism. He is now a chairman of the President’s commission on the
From reading two perspectives of the Holocaust, I am on the side with Elie. Even though Jakob didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t stop them either. I rather fight and try to stop it and save as many lives as I can before following a tyrant leader so I don’t get killed. These Jewish people didn’t do anything to get what they got. More importantly, no soldiers who took a part in guarding for any type of camp didn’t think it was wrong and only thought about themselves dying for not following directions; and there are innocent Jews being murdered. …show more content…
While his time there, his mother and younger sister’s lives ended and his two older sisters and his father survived. Sadly, his sisters were left at Auschwitz and the father and Elie were transferred to Buchenwald. Buchenwald was the camp, which killed off Elie’s last immediate family, the father. Wiesel became the last Wiesel to survive the concentration camps and made better for himself than what some survivors did. Elie Wiesel turned his life around; he studied journalism in Paris and wrote many memoirs about his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His most famous book is called night. After Elie’s recovery, joined/helping other religions, including his religion, judaism. He is now a chairman of the President’s commission on the