Under Adolph Hitler´s rule, the Nazi German Army took anyone what was different from them. Whether it was because of their religion or culture. This lead to what we call the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel and his family were Jewish they were just one of the many families that were taken to the concentra camps. Elie Wiesel talks about his experiences in the book Night. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changed from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.
When Adolph Hitler rised to power he made everyone hate Jews,Gypsies, and Homosexuals . He made everyone who was Jewish were a arm band with the star of david on it. Anyone who was Jewish and a lawyer could not have any clients that were not Jewish. They would paint Jewish, the star of david anything that would represent someone being Jewish on the building. Soon Jewish owners started to get shut down, because they had no clients. Elie Wiesel's father was a lawyer he was also shut down, he was also one of the leaders for the Jewish cancole. In the memoria Night Elie Wiesel
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They had terrible living conditions, some died from starvation, and others died from disease. The gardes splitted the Jews into five rows for counte off. When they had to leave the Ghettos eighty Jews were loaded into each of the cattle cars, on their way to the camps. When Elie and the others make it to the camps some of them have to go to the infirmary, from the little food they had on the cattle cars. There were around 20,000 camps but the main ones were Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Treblinka. They were used for different purposes including: forced-labor camps, extermination camps, built for mass murder. Between five and six million Jews out of the Jewish population of the nine million living in Europe. Elie Wiesel and his father would go one way, and his mother and little sister would go the other