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The holocaust was one of, if not the, worst events in history, German soldiers killed six million Jewish men, women, and children, and even more were put into concentration camps. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the time he served in concentration camps called Night. (simple) During his time in the camps he suffered many tragedies including losing his entire family. He was beaten, tested over and over for many months, and he was filled with trepidation, yet he kept going through it all. He was forced to evacuate and move to another camp, the soldiers made him run to an abandoned town, then to a train where him and many others were shoved into one box car. This part of his memoir is the most terrifying because of the horrid weather, dangerous prisoners, and the blood-curdling soldiers. As he was running the harsh weather caused many to fall and die. The weather was cold and snowy, the people had little on, and even though they were running it didn’t stop from making them cold or sick. When the soldiers let them stop at the town, many sank into the snow, and or fell asleep. Elie’s father knew better, for if they …show more content…

The German soldiers forced many prisoners out of one camp and made them run to an abandoned town, and if they stopped running or fell, the soldiers would shoot them. When at the town they let the prisoners die, and they didn’t give them any place to sleep or keep warm in the snow. They shoved all of them onto a train where all they had was a blanket each, but snow covered them so it didn’t do any good. “A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets”( pg. 96). Also, they didn’t give them any food, and if they did it would be just bread pieces that they threw into the car for their own amusement. In addition to that, they never did anything to keep them from killing each other. All the soldiers wanted was for the prisoners to end up

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Elie Wiesel and his family were deported from the town Sighet to camp Auschwitz. Elie and his town were gathered into train carts vigorously. The German SS officers shouting ”if anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs” (24). While on the train carts there were an average of eighty Jews in one cart, Elie saying “there was little air, thirst became intolerable, as did the heat” (23). Although the Jews of Sighet were warned they did not listen.

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At the start of the chapter, the prisoners are running through the snow. The SS is constantly telling them to go faster. Anyone who stops or can’t keep up is killed. Someone that Eliezer was running with named Zalman, got a stomach cramp and couldn’t run anymore. He stopped and within seconds he was trampled to death.

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The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about the dreadful Holocaust in which Wiesel survived. The Wiesel family consisted of Elie, his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and younger sister, Tzipora, and parents. The family lived in the town of Sighet, Transylvania before they were shipped off to war but were then relocated to a ghetto at the beginning of the Holocaust. Elie met Moshe the Beadle in 1941 when he was about thirteen years old. Moshe the Beadle was a shtibl who was transported to one of the camps before some of the other Jews and was shot and pretended to be dead so that he could escape and return home to warn the other Jews about such occurrences but they would not listen to him.

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The book Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. This memoir is about Eliezer, a young Jewish boy, and his experience of the Holocaust that killed about 12 million people. Weisel used conflict to convey the central idea not to be blind to the truth. One of the characters in the book is called Moshe the Beadle. He was a pauper who roamed the streets of Sighet, Romania, the town where Elizer lives.

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Do you think that you have what it takes to survive alongside Elie? In Night, by Elie Wiesel, his story is told when he is taken to a concentration camp along with his family and stripped of his belongings and identity. Throughout the book, Elie Wiesel shares information about the people he meets, the attacks he had, and the death around him and along with the countless other things that made him a survivor of the Holocaust. Some of the most influential people showed up relatively early in Elie’s life.

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Otsuuka writes, "There were outbreaks of flu and diarrhea and frequent shortages of coal. They had been assigned only two army blankets per person and at night the boy often fell asleep shivering. His hands were red and chapped from the cold. His throat was always sore"(92). This type of condition was not unusual at these camps.

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Wiesel tells us how he and all of the other prisoners were forced to run. He also told us how he and the rest of his block formed a rank and they had to march through the cold snowy night most of them did not even have shoes. On page 82, Wiesel wrote, “I ran outside to look for him. The snow was piled high, the blocks’ windows veiled in frost. Holding a shoe in my hand, for I could not put it on my foot, I ran, feeling neither pain nor cold.”

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In September 1, 1939 a division started between a Country. The Jews and the Germans were indifferenced from one another. Elie Wiesel the author of the book Night was one of the survivors of the holocaust. He was a young boy whose parents were very religious as well as he was, while he was living through the holocaust he experienced loss of faith in God and his power. His book talks about the rough things the Jews went through and what they had to do for they can stay alive and live through it.

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Holocaust 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.

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The book I chose to read, “Night”, was named after Elie Wiesel’s darkest time period in his life. When Elie was young, he was enslaved by the Nazi’s. In the novel, Elie tells us how harsh conditions were for the Jews and what they had to experience. After the Holocaust, he was inspired to write about the concentration camps that he stayed at and what he experienced while he was in the death camp. I chose to read this book because I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust and what the Jewish people had to experience.

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The prisoners were forced to march 42 miles in the freezing cold after evacuating Buna, one of the Nazi concentration camps. During the march, they are given no slack. Elie described: “Anyone who slows down risks being trampled to death by the other

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Surviving the Holocaust Elie Wiesel went through one of the hardest periods of time any man has ever encountered, and lived through to tell about it. The Holocaust was truly one of the most horrific events of discrimination, persecution, and genocide. Elie reveals his story through Eliezer in his novel Night. Some would expect a man who has gone through such terrible times to lack in perseverance and kindness. However, Wiesel displays his willpower, faith, morals, and bond to his father throughout this dark and eye-opening book.

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Elie Wiesel, author and victim of the Holocaust wrote the novel Night which portrays his experiences in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the Nazis dehumanized many groups of people, but primarily the Jewish people. Elie writes about his personal journey through the Holocaust, and how he narrowly escaped death. In Elie’s novel he also provides detailed descriptions of what the victims of the Holocaust had to suffer through, and the different ways the Nazis made them feel like nothing more than animals that are meant to be used for work and slaughtered. One of the first things that Elie and the other Jewish people from his village have to suffer through is riding in a cramped cattle car, as if they were animals.

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The victims traveled by railway in cattle trucks. The victims kept in these wagons were kept in very poor conditions. When the prisoners were brought to the camp, they were not told what the camp actually was. They were told that they had arrived at a transit camp. The prisoners had to undress for disinfection and showering before entering the main camp.

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The prisoners faced many hard times in their life being in the prison camps. The death totals were high, but God was in control during that time. He had a reason for everything He

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