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Elie Wiesel Loss Of Innocence In Night

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Night, Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experiences during the Holocaust, is a powerful account that bears witness to the tragedy suffered by the Jewish people under the Nazis. Wiesel, a Romanian-born Jew, was forced into a concentration camp in Auschwitz, where the brutality and indifference to life were shocking. Visiting Auschwitz II-Birkenau reveals the desolation and void that remains when morality is abandoned. The Nazis sought to dehumanize the Jews by replacing their names with numbers. Wiesel became A-7713, losing his identity in the process. His prose is measured and precise, reflecting the loss of innocence he experienced as an adolescent thrust into a moral hinterland. Hunger was a constant presence in the camps, eroding identities
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