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The website " The Holocaust; Facts and Figures" says how approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the holocaust and about 1.1 million Jews were Killed too. Hitler was the leader of the Germans. Hitler would tell the Germans to kill the Jews, they attacked Jews because the Nazis considered them a race, also because they thought Jews were the cause of losing world war I. The Nazis also wanted some land so they thought that by getting rid of the Jews they would be able to keep their land. This war began in 1939 in Europe. There is evidence of this happening, many people have written about the holocaust. Night is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor. Auschwitz death camp is a video documentary with Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel "Never Shall I Forget" is a …show more content…

In the book Night, Elie experiences cruelty, but he also experiences kindness. On page 53, Wiesel says " he threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again and crushing me with even more violent blow until I was covered in blood (Wiesel 53). Elie experiences cruelty when Idek started beating him up just because Elie crossed his path. He beat up Elie because he was venting his fury and Elie was crossing his way. After he beat up Elie, he sent him back to work as if he didn’t just beat him to death. On the other hand, Elie also experiences kindness. On page 53, Wiesel says " I felt a cool hand wiping the blood from my forehead. I was the French girl. She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread" (Wiesel 53). Elie Experiences kindness when the girl comforts him after getting beaten by Idek. The girl risked her life for him. She helped him after getting beaten by Idek, she cleaned him up and fed him. How the Germans would treat the victims was awful. It's sad how the Jewish had to go through so much just because of their

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I’ll be talking about a book called “Night” it's about a jewish boy who goes threw the holocaust with his father. I will be talking about how food was a big part throughout the book and how they struggle to get it and how they use it to get thing or they give things to get it. In the beginning of the book it talks about how food is a big part but in the beginning it didn’t seem to hard in fact it talks about how each and every day they had bread and soup for the day. In the book it almost sounded easy to get it but it also talks about how they had to work to get the food they had.

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This essay is over the book called night by Elie Wiesel. The book is about Elie Wiesel who was sent to auschwitz concentration camp during world war 2 with his family. It is also about what he saw and experienced. My first example is when he sees the jews being thrown into the fire and beaten. They were barely feed and lived in horrible conditions.

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Night is a book written by the author and nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel. It is not a fictions book, but it is a life story. In the book, the people are not characters, but true people whom our author met and knew during this time. Elie Wiesel was alive during the Holocaust as a Jew forced to live in ghetto. The book is told from his perspective, and tells what happens at the largest concentration camp, auschwitz.

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By the end of the story Elie has little compassion left, only for his family members. Compassion also affected other characters like Mrs. Schacter and the Blockaleste. Characters have used compassion in order to help each other survive but having a lack of compassion also has effect on

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Book Report Katelyn Bourg Foundations of Religion and Faith Ms. Denyer October 24, 2014 Elie Wiesel is a survivor from the holocaust. The book is narrated by himself who is a teenager with a Jewish background. He lived in a town called Siget in Transylvania with his mother, father and his three sisters. The Jewish people had to wear yellow stars .One day the town he lived in was forced to move into ghettos and then eventually moved into small ghettos.

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The book Night is based on a true story; it is based on the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. It is important not to forget about the Holocaust because it was a horrific time when Jews were tortured. Jews should not have been tortured in such an unforgivable way. They were just normal people and did not hurt anyone. Elie tells his story about how the Nazi officers took him and his family from their houses and separated him from his mother and sister.

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What a Time to be Alive “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”(Elie Wiesel). The book “Night” was published on 1956 and it was written by Elie Wiesel. This book was about a boy’s experience in the Holocaust. Throughout “Night” there are three moments that are incredibly powerful to focus on and understand to fully grasp the importance of this holocaust memoir. They show the reader how Moshe the Beadle told the news to the public, Also how the woman was yelling fire over and over, And how Elie’s dad died a few months before he got saved.

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In class we read the nonfiction book, Night by Elie Wiesel. It is a story about Elie, as a young teen, being a victim of the Holocaust and the gruesome situations he been in. In the book Elie says, “The world is not interested in us” (Wiesel 33). I believe that this statement is true. The world did not do anything to save the Jewish people and just observed them being treated like objects.

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The subject is the overall main topic of a book, therefore the subject in night is the holocaust. Night by Elie Wiesel is a book about what the went through during the holocaust. The book takes the reader through the holocaust in a way. The book has a way of describing how the holocaust was. He writes about what he has been through and all the people he met along the way.

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---Rough Draft--- While we probably all know that the Holocaust was a horrible stain on the fabric of society, Elie Wiesel's book shows that the acts of the Nazi's are more horrible towards the Jews than some of us may have been led to believe. Elie originates from a town known as Sighet located in what was previously known as Transylvania. Though Sighet was not part of Germany or Hungary, they were still abused by the SS soldiers, by trapping them in fenced off ghettos. They also soon transported them in a terrible cattle car ride, and treated them like slaves. But the meat of the story takes place in the concentration camp(s), where they are given minimal amounts of food and judged like dogs to see if they are worth keeping.

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At the end of the book his father's dies and he doesn't feel anything for him. Elie says “I did not weep, and it pained me… deep inside me, if I could searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!.... ”(Wiesel p112). When elie says I did not weep and it pained me that I could not weep reveals that he was stoic and that he was enduring his pain.

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Eliezer Wiesel, also known as Elie, was born on September 30th 1928 in Sighetu Marmatiei, the Kingdom of Romania (Hungary at that time) - July 2, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a philosopher, writer, Jewish political and humanitarian activist and author of many books. " Night", which was written in 1960 is his memoir of those years living in Nazi concentration camp during the First World War when he was under the age of fifteen, a book honoring the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. The love is real in any situation, throughout the book is the story that Elie witnessed and what had happened to him during his years in the concentration camp and in those cruel situations. The love between humans in this world is warm, sometimes fragile or is distorted

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To be Human How does one remain himself as everything he has ever known is ripped away from him? Elie Wiesel recalls his own experiences with this challenge in his self written book, Night. In this book, Wiesel takes you on a eye opening ride to see and experience the hard life of Jewish people under German Control. Wiesel shows how to accomplish the nearly impossible, surviving.

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(Wiesel 82). Elie is heartbroken when this event occur because throughout the whole story Elie’s role model was his father and to see him get beaten made him lose hope. During their times in the camp the suffering laid upon on both Elie and his father made them give up on themselves and feel like they didn’t have a chance to make it out or survive. This was shown once again in depth when Elie said to himself, “Were there still miracles on this earth?” (Wiesel 76).

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The Holocaust was a genocide of Jewish people during World War II, by Germany. It was led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party as they were radically antisemitic. During this event in 1933-1945, around 6 million Jews were murdered and tortured. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and ended in May 1945 when the Allied powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. During the Holocaust, an event called Kristallnacht, which was a violent pogrom, occurred on the night of November 9th and 10th, 1938, when the Nazis attacked Jewish people and property.

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