Ella May Post #5

Studying the holocaust has been the most emotional unit I have ever studied. Reading Night was one thing but after watching the two movies and walking through the museum myself I learned so much I didn't know about the holocaust. For me watching Life is Beautiful was a lot more emotional for me because instead of creating my own picture in my head I could actually see what the camps looked like and the clothing and food they ate. After learning about the holocaust I have learned about our history and how terribly people just like us were treated, and the misery they went through whether it was struggling to stay alive or watching somebody close to them die. As we started this unit I was positive I knew almost everything there was to know about the holocaust but after the first day I learned so much more. I learned that kids were killed because they were unable to work everyday because they were too week and that all of the six million Jews killed were killed in only six years. There has never been a larger mass murder in the history of this planet!

Ella May Poem

Night

Night was falling quickly.

Night fell and some twenty people gathered in our backyard.

That night we all went to bed early.

It was to be our last night spent in our house.

Nobody was praying for night to pass quickly.

The night before we had sat down to eat our traditional Friday night meal.

I spent last night going over memories and ideas, I was unable to fall asleep.

The night seemed endless.

Once more,

The last night. The last night at home.

The last night in the ghetto. The last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna.

The night had completely passed and yet  It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side.

(Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.)

Ella May Blog Post #3

These three men on a boat are Danish rescuers from 1943. They are likely rescuing jews from being sent to a camp. From their tired look on their faces it seems to me that they are headed in after a long day of rescuing Jews from Denmark.

Ella May Blog Post #2

Ella May Corckran

Global Studies 8A Zanger

10 - 9 - 2017

Blog Post #2

After reading the majority of Night By Elie Wiesel one theme that kept appearing in my mind. That theme is Family. Elie and his father Shlomo are still together they help one another through these rough times. Elie and his father rely on each other to keep them going. Elie wrote “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Nearby, an SS man replaced his revolver in it's holster. My Hand tightened it's grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.”(P. 30 Wiesel) Elie is scared that something bad will happen to what's left of his family: his father. In the camp Jews are killed everyday for sometimes no reason at all. While reading this all I could think of is how I would feel if this was happening to me and what I would do if I were in this awful situation. I think that if this were to happen to my family my sisters and my mom would be separated from my father and I.

“ I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then there was no longer any reason for me to do so.” (P. 69 Wiesel)  In this quote it is Yom Kippur and some of the other jews are fasting as they would usually on Yom Kippur, but Elie’s father has forbidden Elie to do so because if either of them did they might not make it through the day, and even if they did they would be so weak that they would probably be killed because they did not have enough strength to work. Having his father there helps Elie to make the right decisions, Shlomo keeps him in his right mind.

Ella May Blog Post #1

When reading the first chapter of Night by Elie Wiesel I came upon a passage that was very shocking to me: “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offering their necks. Infants tossed in the air and used as targets for machine guns. This took place in the Galician forest near Kolomay” (Wiesel 6) This passage made me feel as if I was standing right there when it happened. It also made me realize how lucky we are to be living here and doing what we want without somebody telling us to stop.  

The language Elie Wiesel used is different then what we are used to hearing today. In one of his passages he is very repetitive: “Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand his replies. We can not understand them. Because they dwell in the depth of our souls and remain there till we die.” (Wiesel 5) Elie also makes his writing more interesting by using a different arrangement of words like: The real answers, Eliezer you will find only within yourself (Wiesel 5) Verse: Eliezer you will only find the real answers within yourself.