With about 6 million Jewish deaths; 17 million total, the Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in human history. The memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a true story of Wiesel’s heartbreaking experience as a young Jewish boy, at the time of WWII, in the midst of the Holocaust and his struggle to survive it all. Throughout the book Night, Wiesel reveals his loss of innocence by using imagery, symbolism, and repetition.

In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition to express his loss of innocence. By repeatedly using the word “never” in the text, he explains in horrific detail his first night in a Nazi concentration camp. Chapter 4: page 34, the text says, ”Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children