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For the last few months, we have been reading the book Night by Elie Wisel. Elie is s 15 year old boy who survived the tragic events of the holcaust during World War 2. In this book, 86 year old Elie tells his compelling story of hardship and strength as he goes through the death camps of burkenwald and Aushwitz. In this essay, I will tell you about Another survivor and her story. Her name is Hanna Szper and I will tell you about her life before, during, and after the holcaust. I will start off by telling you about Hanna Szper before the invasion of Poland in 1939. According to http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html Hanna lived with her mother, her father and her older brother in Lublin, Poland. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html states that they lived in big house and were very fortunate. Hanna had many friends in her hometown and had a fairly normal life. …show more content…

According to http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html, Hanna was 24 and living in Lulin when the invasion was going on. She was teaching literature. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecescape.html also states that Hanna tried to flea to Warsaw, but was caught before she arrived. She was arrested and a German officer was assigned to tell her her fate. The officer allegedly told Hanna she will be hung from a tree. He also told her that he would let her go but he would be killed. I received all of the i formation in this paper from

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This book was first published in 1989 by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a jewish writer who was born in 1928 in Sighetu Marmației, Transylvania, which is apart of Romania. Him and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz in which him and his two older sisters survived. At first I was selecting a book to get it over with, but after I’ve read the story I started to take interest in it.

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During the Holocaust about 500,000 to 750,000 people were murdered due to their religion. Elie Wiesel was one of the people who survived this tragic event and wrote Night to bring attention and to inform about how it happened. The book Night is a nonfiction book about how Elie Wiesel lived in the town of Sighet as a child and was put into a concentration camp. He was put in a concentration camp because he is Jewish and was growing up during World War 2, when Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jewish people. This book is well written and fits all of my criteria for what makes a book worth reading.

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The book I chose to read was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is an autobiography. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish American who went through the Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. He is an author, professor and an activist. He was born on September 30th, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania.

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The article,“Teens Who Fought Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis describes the tragedies that happened during the Holocaust to Ben a Jewish boy, and Ben’s family and all the other Jews which millions perished at the hands of the Nazis including his parents. Ben Kamm lived during one of the most horrific and traumatizing events in world history, the Holocaust. Him and his family lived a normal life but in 1918 was when he would no longer live that life when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Warsaw and sent all Jews to the ghetto then to bring them to concentration camps killing them with gas. However, some of the kids went through holes in the walls joining partisan camps to sabotage the Nazis. Thankfully he survived though the unspeakable and unimaginable challenges

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