Holocaust
The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying events in human history. About six million Jews, among other groups of people, died in the hands of Hitler and all of the Nazis. Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Auschwitz, has become an important character in the history of the Jews and of the whole world. In his book, Night, he narrates the horror story that he and many Jews lived during the Holocaust. Sadly, there was “major” problem during that time. The Second World War. But was the war more important than the suffering and humiliations of millions? To me Wiesel might have been right; however, I think that each part of the world has their own problems to solve.
Elie Wiesel stated that “When human lives are endangered, when human dignity
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America accepted them and allowed them to stay. It wasn't that easy. They had to go through a process and most of them had to have a way to maintain themselves. The United States were getting out of the Great Depression and money wasn't their best tool at the time; however, they accepted the Jews. America helped a great deal of Jews just by allowing them to enter our country. It was a moment of terror for the Jews. They were being hunted for their beliefs. No one in the world has the right to judge …show more content…
It was after that war when America gained the power that it possesses nowadays. The main Jewish leaders knew what was going on with the people from Europe. Nazis were collecting Jews like if they were cattle. The American Jewish authorities were requesting the United States Military to destroy one of the most relevant concentration camps, Auschwitz. A concentration camp was some type of slaughterhouse. The difference is that slaughterhouses are for pigs; concentration camps were for human beings. America was requested to bomb the place and finish with the Germans and the Jews’ suffering at long last. But it was not that easy. I wish there had been only one concentration camp. Adolf Hitler built over 40,000 concentration camps along Germany and Poland. The killing of human lives was incredibly massive. America refused to bomb the place. Maybe they had their own purpose to refuse the request; however, America had denied to destroy and make a massacre all over Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel and the Jews were given a chance to keep fighting for their