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Hardships In Night By Elie Wiesel

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War is horrible. It breaks up families and communities. People get murdered and tortured. This happened during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very tragic moment in history. Millions of Jewish people were murdered in concentration camps by the Dictator of Germany. Adolf Hitler. This horrible event happened between the times 1933 and 1945. During this people experienced lots of hardships such as death, torture, isolation, beatings, and starvation. Even through these hardships the way people found strength to endure the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel gets sent to a concentration camp and is forced into horrible conditions and experiences very difficult hardships. One of the main ways he found strength to make it through this tragic experience was
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