Useful Internet Site

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/HOLO/ELIEBIO.HTM
this internet site on Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust is very useful because it gives a very detailed outline on his life. It also has pictures and information on his history. My favorite part of this website is that it also has another link that has all the information about Elie's duty toward the involvement as a chairman of President's Commision of the Holocaust. There is also a very great timeline on the left side of the site that is easily understandable. It makes it clear on how Elie spent his years from time to time.

My thoughts on Night by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel really gives alot of detail on how Jews were treated. Its sickening to know that the Nazis made Jews, including Elie, to dig there own graves. They killed them, then dumped there bodies like as if they were trash. Soon enough, the Jews were being sent to Auschwitz to be killed and burned. The thought of stupid Hitler demanding something like that ruins my day. Innocent lives were seperated from their loved ones and murdered for no reason. Elie was only 15, but he lied to Mengele by saying he was 18. He also said he was a farmer not a student. Elie also said his father was a farmer which kept them together on their way through Birkanue. As there passing through, they both see a huge pit where babies are being burned and also adults. Its still hard for me to believe that babies were thrown in pits. Babies are such a beauty from God, and were thrown away like dogs by Nazis. Its sickening. Elie tells his father how they can let that happen, and his father in tears just tells him anything is possible. Other Jews started reciting the Jewish prayer called Kaddish, but Elie does not recite it because he felt that he had nothing to thank God for. When they arrived they were all shaved and disinfected with gasoline and had to put on prison clothes. They also had their prison numbers tattooed on them. Elie's father asked to use a bathroom but was beaten by the head officer. A question so simple turned into a beating. This shows that the Nazi's had no heart at all. I feel like crying for Elie. Its a sad time in history where they could not escape.