Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Convinced that this period in history would be judged one day, I knew I must bear witness.”(Wiesel viii)
May 1944 Eliezer was only fifteen when he entered Auschwitz. Almost a year later he was liberated from Buchenwald. Six years after that Night by Elie Wiesel was published in 1960. Night is a memoir about his journey as a Jew named through the Holocaust and was written to attest to the Holocaust. I differ from Eliezer in two ways. The first being the fact that I have never been discriminated against because of my faith, the other being that I have never witnessed death.
I have never been treated differently because of my faith that is most likely because I always went to a Catholic school and I have been lucky enough to have never witnessed