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The book Night written by holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates life in the holocaust. Through life in ghettos, labour camps, concentration camps, death camps and the final death march. Every Jew in Europe during the Holocaust has a different story, and Elie Wiesel is just one of the 6 million that are out there.Elie’s experience during the Holocaust has many similarities to other experiences, but also many differences.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, there was an immediate hatred against Jews. After businesses were shut down and synagogues were burned to ashes, Jews were no longer allowed to leave their homes. The spread of Anti-Semitism was on the rise all over Europe, especially in Germany, Austria, and Poland. Is was evident …show more content…

They were put onto trains, not knowing where they were going. Trips ranged from multiple hours to multiple days in tightly packed trains. Prior to deporting the Jews, they were often split up between men and women. This caused a lot of family separation and even the last time that some would see their loved ones. Upon arrival to their destination, they quickly learned that they were at a concentration camp. German offices ordered everyone to line up, where they would all be inspected by Dr. Mengele, a famous German physician, who would ask all the Jews about their health. If they were healthy, they were sent to do hard labour, if not, immediate death. The Jews who were sent to hard labour were having a discussion one night about their faith and belief in God while some were praying. At this time, it was a very controversial topic. *QUOTE*. It was very common to constantly get deported and transferred to other concentration camps. Jews were constantly getting moved around from camp to camp, not knowing where they were being taken, and where their family would be going. When the Germans finally arrive in Jewish towns, they were not as bad as they expected, although they were strict, they were following their duties. When Elie and his father arrived at the concentration camp, they spoke with a prisoner who helped them. He told them to lie about their age so they can try to stay together. When approaching the officers, Elie

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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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The week following these arrests the Jews were taken to concentration camps and were killed in horrific ways. Many of them ended up being sent to Auschwitz, one of the most well-known death camps. Others were sent to the camps Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande, and their heads were shaved and they were being tested for many things, many died in extremely gruesome ways. By

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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” was a non-fictional book written by Elie Wiesel. The story revolves around the author’s personal experiences regarding the Holocaust, the treacherous event where the Nazis heartlessly slaughtered the Jews. But why did the author name the book “Night”? Could it have been given some other title?

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Alysa Armas Armas 1 Ms. Engelen English 10 20 Feburary, 2017 Night In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel describes his experience with his father while in the Nazi German concentration camps. Eliezer's family and many other Jews that lived in a small town Transylvania town of Sighet weren't able to flee the country when they had the chance. All the Jews were sent to a concentration camp. Eliezer was separated from his mother younger sister but wasn't separated from his father.

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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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Trevor Eckermann Period 2 6/4/15 Spring Book Review The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel was first published in 1956 in the Yiddish language and by 1960 the novel had its first English translated publication. Elie Wiesel was born September 30th, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania in a community made up of mainly Orthodox Jews. The main characters of this book are Madame Schachter, Juliek, Shlomo, Eliezer and Moshe the Beadle.

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Jews usually work in the camp and did outside labor like factories, construction projects, farms or coal mines (Vashem). They walked miles to get to their work. If they did not corporate they were shot on sight. 11 million Jews were killed in the holocaust(Rosenberg). Miep Gies was living in Amsterdam almost all her life.

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Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer, the protagonist, is transported and moved to numerous concentration camps. His story, which is corresponding to Wiesel’s biography, is representative to the lives of a billion other Jews. Jews were stripped away from their families, beliefs, identity, and freedom. They could no longer express their faith in God or have the human right to live where desired. During the holocaust, nothing was fair, everything was dark and cruel.

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His father was a man who spent much of his time being involved with the community authorities. Elie’s town is taken over by Hungarian Police who are under the rule of the German-Nazi’s. The Jewish people in his community are sent to live in “ghettos” that are fenced in and are under constant watch. One day, deportations begin. Elie and his family are part of the last transport out of his town.

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“The first major law to curtail the rights of Jewish citizens was the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" of April 7, 1933, according to which Jewish and "politically unreliable" civil servants and employees were to be excluded from state service.” (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005681) This law was a kind of regulation used to exclude Jews from organizations, professions, and other aspects of public life. To break it down the Jews couldn’t come to anything they were outcasts and if one Jew walk into somewhere that was not allowed the got stared down and nobody in the whole would talk to the Jew almost like he/she was a germ. The second major law was the loss of homes for the Jews.

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Before the Nazis, Elie loves his family and is eager to further his studies about the ways of God. However, once he enters the world inside concentration camps his family is quickly separated and he struggles to maintain his devotion to God. The SS officers severely mistreat the Jews and if any step out of line, they are abused and humiliated. c. When Elie discovers an officer with a young girl in a back room of the warehouse, he is beaten like an animal: “A-7713!’ I stepped forward.

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Death became their normal and they struggled to survive. When the jews arrived to the camps, if they were too young or to old they were sent right away to the gas chambers or wrose. The jews faced an

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Inmates in concentration camps were kept under harsh conditions and exploited for their labour. The prisoners in these concentration camps were criminals, asocials (Roma, homosexuals and more), Jews and Foreign nationals during the Second World War. Concentration and death camps were used to isolate Jewish people and either kill them immediately or use them as free labour in poor working conditions until they died. In these concentration camps, cruel medical experiments were conducted on Jewish prisoners, which were justified by the Nazis pseudoscientific ideas of

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At this point in the story, they have arrived at the concentration camp. Elie and his father have been separated from Elie’s mother and sisters. He has been told by another person that he is now 18 not 15. This saves his life. He then sees the crematorium where all the other deportees are being burned alive.

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