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Examples Of Judaism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my whole life into one long night seven times sealed” (Wiesel xix). Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in the Holocaust through his novel, Night. Elie writes about the terrible things he lived through, from being hauled in cattle cars for days without food, to watching babies burn in ditches, while him and so many others were defenceless against the power of the Soviet Union. Because they were Jewish, Elie and his family were taken into concentration camps, where they were either killed or worked to death. In Hitler’s eyes judaism was seen as an impurity, and the Germans blamed them for losing World War II (WWII). So, Hitler and his army’s main goal was to eliminate the
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