Night Book Report Night

When you have to fight everyone to survive, would you fight? Would you still fight if it meant fighting against your loved ones? Eliezer, a Jewish teen, had to experience the gruesome moments when son’s killed their fathers for food and families turned on each other just to survive. He experienced how people were dying and would beg for food and all they would receive was silence or an insult. You had to learn how to survive in a concentration camp and surviving meant only caring for yourself.
Eliezer arrived at Auschwitz in 1944 with his father and didn’t know of the horrors that lied ahead of them. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.”
He was always by his father's side and gave him everything he could to keep him alive and well. One day Rabbi Eliahou came to Eliezer asking if he had seen his son and when Eliezer said no he left just as fast as he came. Eliezer knew that Rabbi Eliahou’s son had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and left his father who was only a burden which could lessen his own chances of survival. He was now scared that he would abandon his father so he prayed and said, “my God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done.”
Survival was vital for Eliezer and other Jews in concentration camps. Everyone did what they had to do to survive and were so desperate to stay alive that they committed the most horrendous acts. Burning innocent children, hurting your loved ones, and unfairly punishing people were only some of the horrible acts committed. Death was something that everyone craved for, they just wanted the pain to go away. All the silence and indifference for the suffering of others was just a way to survive the hard