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A Brief Review Of Elie Wiesel's Night

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What do you think it was like to live in the Holocaust as a Jew? The memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel describes how the Jews were mistreated by the Nazi’s and transported into cattle cars into concentration camps. The Holocaust is responsible for 6 million deaths and the pain is still felt to this day. The S.S. officers dehumanized the Jews by abusing and treating them as animals, making conditions unbearable in the concentration camps, and by making transportation nearly impossible to live through. The treatment and punishments to the Jews was ungodly. In “Night” a character named Moishe the Beatle said that he saw Germans using babies as target practice for their weapons. If the S.S. officers saw any babies (that were Jews) they would send them to the ovens (death). Also if a Jew didn’t do his or her work efficiently, or at all, their punishments would be either little to no food or something to drink and death by the S.S. officers. Prisoners were starving enough already like a homeless animals and they would fight over a little crumb of bread. “… A worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it in the wagon… Dozens of starving men fought… The worker watched with great interest” (Night, 100). The S.S. officers made the men fight just for fun. They would also beat the Jews for just asking …show more content…

“… The three veteran prisoners, needle in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Night, 42). Could you imagine being called a name your whole life that you’re used to, and it being taken away from you in one day. Jews were also forced to throw their own family into ovens. That meant you were practically going to your loved ones funeral and watching them die. If you weren’t fit for work in the concentration camp then you would be sent to the crematorium. If you refused to work then you would be tortured, then sent to the ovens. Basically you had to work or you would be

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