Living in the Holocaust- As a Teenager The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and heartbreaking eras. Millions and millions died and were put through torturous conditions, just because they were a certain religion. Young kids had to have their lives ruined as well, and one person that lived life in concentration camps was Elie Wiesel. Elie survived, however, passed away earlier this year. There could be controversy that Elie, being 15 years old at the time could not have recalled everything correctly in his book Night, where he explains what he had to go through. Though Elie was young and naive when he experienced life in the Holocaust, he successfully described what life was like living in a concentration camp. Many other sources and Holocaust survivors explain going through the same things as Elie did. One of the things Elie talks about in Night …show more content…
One of the things in Night that Wiesel specifies a lot is how people were forced into agonizing work and labor. Failure to not working results in death. Wiesel explains how a soldier told him and his father, “You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney.” (Wiesel) Another source characterizes Auschwitz, one of the camps Elie stayed in as,
“Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the extermination camp; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp to which the healthy workers were sent; and 45 satellite camps for producing goods for the Nazi war machine. Many of these latter were run by German industries as slave labor factories."