http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5136.shtml
In this article, Patrick Gordon Walker describes his time when he liberated the Belsen Concentration camp. He provides the reader with descriptive and horrifying images of the German atrocities laid upon the innocent that put the reader in beyond belief. His descriptions of the inhumane actions that were done can closely relate to that of Elie Wiesel's. On page 64 and 65 of Elie’s book, Night, Elie describes the execution of two men and an innocent child in which they were hung. “The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing….”(Wiesel 64-65). With the use of the ellipsis, it is clear that Elie is beyond disbelief with the abominations taken place. Later in the passage, the conscious of Elie’s answers the questioning of a man who asks where is God with “This is where-hanging from this gallows” (Wiesel 65). At this moment, Elie shows his loss in faith in God by describing that God himself hangs along with all that he once believed in. Also, once again, uses an ellipsis to emphasize his loss in faith. Like Elie, Walker also has seen atrocious sights that put himself speechless.”The mother went on begging for milk - so he poured some into its dead lips. The mother then gibbered. and crooned with joy - and carried the baby off in triumph. She stumbled and fell dead in a few yards” (Belsen 2). In this part of his report, Belsen can’t believe what he just saw, he might not use literary devices to show it, but the dullness of how he describes what he witnesses shows his sorrow for the innocent victims. Both Wiesel and Belsen experience horrific sights and depict their sorrow in similar yet different ways.
