Elie Wiesel's Night: A Thousand Lives Of Children

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The Holocaust, an event so tragic that almost everyone of age has heard of it. The Holocaust was a result of the one sided conflict against the Jewish people by the Hitler commanded German army. It represents a tragic story on how many lives were toyed with and ended – all on the whim of one man’s orders. The chosen picture is that one of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp that captures the life of the captured Jewish children, a life not worthy for children of any race or status. If a picture can tell a thousand words, this picture will describe a thousand lives. Contained in the picture shows the lives of the captured Jewish children as they are put into a reality where they live inside one massive prison camp against their will, separated …show more content…
A black and white photo that shows the bleak tale of how those children must have seen the world, to them there must have not any been bright-blue skies and happy sunny days – just the days where they await their fates. Just like in the book Night, where the world was cold and lifeless as the captured Jews had their lives ended within the horrific camps. One cannot imagine the horrors children had to suffer through before their eventual end, and the question of how many survived it only to feel the effects of such a one-sided conflict to this day. The capturing point of this picture is the children who wear matching prison uniforms, without a single smile present on their faces. In Elie’s life in the concentration camps he was sent to, nobody had identity or the ability to express themselves, once they entered – it was all about survival. The uniforms represent the
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