Review Of Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
Night Final Project “We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”– Sir Winston Churchill.
In the summer and autumn of 1940, German and British air forces fought in the skies over the Great Britain. In June 1940, a German General ordered by Hitler, began bombing air force bases and other targets in southern England. At the end of the battle the British had shot down around 1700 German planes. The British had won. Hitler saw that he could not defeat England's air force so he gave up his idea of invading Britain. Instead he decided to bomb British cities and towns, testing the …show more content…
She was only a little girl when the war started, so her childhood consisted of air raid drills, ration books, and the constant fear of Germans landing on the pebble covered seaside.
I called my almost 78 year old Grandmother to talk about this project that my teacher assigned that was inspired by the book “Night”. This book is about Elie Wiesel (a Nobel peace prize winner) experience with his father in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. We had three options on what we wanted to write about and I chose to write about my Nana’s experience during this time.
The war started when she was just two. For being so young she remembers a lot of what happened during the war. She told me that she was about five or six when she was told that Europeans were put into camps. So this making it about 1943, two years until the war ended. She was told these things from her uncle. My great uncle was put into a camp for four years, from 1939 to 1943. We he came back to England, he told my Nana that things were happening in Europe and people were being killed. Of course, being five at the time, she wasn’t fully able to understand the horrible things that were happening. But she tried to comprehend what was going on and why people were being
In the summer and autumn of 1940, German and British air forces fought in the skies over the Great Britain. In June 1940, a German General ordered by Hitler, began bombing air force bases and other targets in southern England. At the end of the battle the British had shot down around 1700 German planes. The British had won. Hitler saw that he could not defeat England's air force so he gave up his idea of invading Britain. Instead he decided to bomb British cities and towns, testing the …show more content…
She was only a little girl when the war started, so her childhood consisted of air raid drills, ration books, and the constant fear of Germans landing on the pebble covered seaside.
I called my almost 78 year old Grandmother to talk about this project that my teacher assigned that was inspired by the book “Night”. This book is about Elie Wiesel (a Nobel peace prize winner) experience with his father in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. We had three options on what we wanted to write about and I chose to write about my Nana’s experience during this time.
The war started when she was just two. For being so young she remembers a lot of what happened during the war. She told me that she was about five or six when she was told that Europeans were put into camps. So this making it about 1943, two years until the war ended. She was told these things from her uncle. My great uncle was put into a camp for four years, from 1939 to 1943. We he came back to England, he told my Nana that things were happening in Europe and people were being killed. Of course, being five at the time, she wasn’t fully able to understand the horrible things that were happening. But she tried to comprehend what was going on and why people were being