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Topic #3 There are few periods of time in history that are darker or more shocking than the Holocaust which was the mass killing of jews and other groups that hitler did not deem worthy to walk this earth. The Holocaust lasted about 12 years which is an insane amount of time for the mass killing of jews to be happening without anyone putting a stop to it. In the book “Night”written by Elie Wiesel writes about how no one in his town did anything despite the advance of the German army and Moishe the Beadle explaining what the germans are doing to the jews. The truth is, the townspeople did not believe Mosihe because no one could have ever thought that a horror story such as that could be actually be happening to the jews. The townspeople also thought that hitler was stepping down as leader and disbanding the Nazi party, so they did not see him as much of a threat as they did when he thought he was still in command. But they could not have been more wrong. The villages surrounding the concentration camps also did nothing to stop the Nazis. I believe that they did not do anything because they either did not know that the Nazis were establishing a concentration camp, or were to scared to attempt to stop them …show more content…

By the time they en figured out what hitler and the Nazis were doing it was to late to do anything because the Nazis had already established over 20,000 camps for the labor, transit, and extermination of the jews. The thought of being sent to one of those camps is enough to make any man pee his pants a little. I can’t imagine that the jews felt any differently. They knew more than anyone that any kind of revolt without help would pretty much be the annihilation of the jews who attempted, so they decided to avoid the Nazis as much as possible which is completely understandable most likely anyone in such a situation would react the same

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1) As Night begins, Eliezer is so moved by faith that he weeps when he prays. He is also searching for a deeper understanding of the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. How does Eliezer's relationship with his faith and with God change as the book progresses? At the beginning of the book, Eliezer is very strong in his faith, as shown by his weeping and his yearning for a teacher to teach him the Kabbalah.

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The concentration camps were Hitler’s as well as the Nazi’s answer to the “Final Solution” of the eradication, elimination, and extermination of the Jewish population in Germany. A little after Germany’s annexation of Austria in March, 1938, tons of Nazis had arrested German and Austrian Jews. There were many invasions that had led the Germans to force labor, which they had gotten the name “Prisoner of War Camps”. As soon as you knew it camps were being spread worldwide and they had finally been given the name concentration camps. Inside each one many gas chambers were being constructed to increase the killing efficiency to the max.

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Most people did not know when or if the madness would ever end. There were many people in fact that tried to stop Hitler from doing this but ended up losing their lives in the process. Many Jews tried to escape the concentration camps but they were stopped or killed. The Concentration camps had large tall walls that had sharp tangly wire on them to stop them from getting over. If they tried to get over they were either cut by the wire or killed by the wounds.

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After reading Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” there are many questions readers have. One of them being, how did Wiesel survive the horrors of the Holocaust when so many did not? There were a lot of things that helped Elie through the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel wrote on page vii “There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text.” The three most important things revealed while reading “Night” were the importance of religion, humanity or the lack of humanity shown towards others, and the importance of relationships like the father-son bond.

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They could not lie down or sit because there is not enough room. This technically would be a choice because they probably would all sitting if they could. However, the choice is already made for them since there is not enough room to actually sit somewhere. They have the choice to escape and die or stay and die, of course they do not know that most of them would die if they were to stay.

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I learned a lot of new information while reading Night, there were many things I didn’t know about the Holocaust before that I know about now. I never knew much about the conditions of the camps or how the people were treated there, I just knew that they were dreadful places. Now I can have an image of the camps in my head, what it looked like for the people who had to live in these horrendous camps. They committed so many execrable acts on people, they performed experiments on people, murdered whoever they wanted, starved people and many more gruesome things. I didn’t realize how bad the conditions really were and how badly the people were treated.

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The decisions people make can affect them in a positive way or a negative way. I believe that Elieʻs choices have both sides. In this book NIGHT by Elie Weisel it was hard to survive as a Jew in these times as the story explains. As a young teen like Elie, he had a lot of peer pressure with Jews and the SS. Elie had it rough with being away from home and separated from his mother and sister.

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“You don’t understand... You cannot understand. I was saved miraculously. I succeeded in coming back. Where did I get my strength?

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Night: Questions to Ponder Directions: For each chapter of Night, you will complete chapter questions. Your answers must be typed. Answers that are more in depth, thoughtful, and inspiring will be awarded more points. If you want an A, you should answer these questions in lengthy paragraphs. Please make sure you give each question your utmost time and effort.

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In the story Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the Jews had to endure a huge amount of suffering and pain. The first discussion question I have selected is; Can traumatic experiences transform someone's identity? The instances that the Jews have to go through changed their identity and how they viewed the world. An occasion where this occurs is when Elie's dad gets beaten up by Idek and Elie says “I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.

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The Jews knew that the Nazi’s were the authority, and didn’t want to upset them, so they followed the rules by trying to stay on their good side, if there was one at

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People chose to normalize or forget it happened, continuing life as normal without a second thought, rather than try to stop or speak out against the Nazis. Martin Niemoller describes what it’s like struggling to speak out against the Nazis in “First They Came for the Communists.” He wanted to live, so he “did not speak out,” which led to his eventual capture as there was “no one left to speak out” (Niemöller 184). While it’s evident that many were afraid of their own capture, their lack of confidence to speak against the Nazis led to many people’s death. Had more people spoken out, many lives would have been saved.

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In the wake of Jewish retaliation, and a German guard or officer being killed when the opportunity arose, many Jewish innocents were slaughtered for the deed. “Camp guards shot 26 Jews after four prisoners slipped through the barbed wire in Winter 1942.” The largest example of this was seen when a whole town was erased from the map (700 killed) when the Czech resistance crew murdered a highly regarded Nazi leader. The Jews faced a losing battle. At least if they were going to die, they weren’t going down without some

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The Nazis were puzzled about this and didn’t realize what was going on, they sooner retaliated and killed many of the jews. Another rebellion at Treblinka in August, 1943 and Sobibor in October, 1943. The jews stole weapons from the guards and fought back but only lasted for so long until more and more Nazis came. Several prisoners escaped, however they

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To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.

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