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Literature In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Do you think literature helps the newer generations remember and honor those who died in the holocaust? Literary resources such as The Diary of Anne Frank, “Frank Family & WWII” and Nightfall give different perspectives from inside and outside the camps during the Holocaust.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, 2nd edition, 1955. This teaches us about how it was to go to the ghettos, deportation, and not one but 3 different camps, including the death marches and the last week of death and tranquility with no food. To add to the week of torture the treatment is worse than it has ever been. Without Elie Wiesel there to tell his story of all of the torture that he went through including outside the camps. Elie Wiesel talks about his experiences inside the concentration camps: Birkenau, Buna, and Buchenwald all in the novel. Some of the experiences involve people dying in the end including his father at the …show more content…

Not only does it include facts and names of those who were caught and stopped from the torture by the Nazi party. The timeline doesn’t only show what happened to the Frank family, but those that went in with them during the war. The timeline also gives us their real names and even some further information on what they have done before, not only giving us their plans and the countries that they first ever invaded. Some further information that the timeline gives us is how Anne and her sister died after they got caught from their hiding place, talking about the hiding place after the war ended their hiding place is now known as the secret annex, which turned into a museum and still is a museum in Amsterdam. The timeline of the Frank family and WWII gives us information from everywhere that it could, including before, during, and after the war which is really helpful to those who are learning about the holocaust and Anne

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