We read Elie Wiesel’s memoir/autobiography Night, about his experiences as a boy during the Holocaust.
- As a 12-year-old boy before the war, what sort of person was Elie and what was his life like? grew up in the close-knit Jewish community of Sighet.
- How had Elie changed from the 12-year-old boy in Sighet to the 16-year-old liberated from the concentration camp at the end of the war? He look at his reflection in the mirror and all he can see is a corpse.
- As you read and/or listened to Elie’s account of what he experienced during the Holocaust, how did it make you feel? I feel lucky I didn’t experience the horrible war.
- What part(s) of Elie’s story did you find most upsetting or hardest to cope with? Why do you think that was? When the war starts, his father died, and other jews that died.
- Did any part of Elie’s story give you hope or make you feel a bit better? Why? I felt better cause he shared his story about what happened during the holocaust.
- Has Elie’s story changed or made clearer your views about human beings, human rights, and how we relate to each other in society? How? Yes about prejudice.
- What is the most important message or idea you have taken from reading Night? Identity, faith, and the struggle to understand human suffering amidst the atrocities of concentration camps
