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Night And The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Night

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The memoir Night, written by Elie Wiesel, recalls the horrific memories of fifteen-year-old Wiesel as he lives through World War ll and the Holocaust. During World War ll Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party and a German politician, ordered the round up of ethnic and religious groups of people who he disapproved of, thus creating the Holocaust. Throughout this period of time approximately thirteen and a half million people were killed under his order, the main groups being Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, Serbian and Polish citizens, as well as the disabled and the homosexuals.
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