Elie Wiesel's book Night is about his experiences in Auschwitz with his family during the Holocaust. It offers a fascinating truth that few others are willing to admit. This horrifying event is easily described as a mass genocide and is, most unsurprisingly if you consider human nature, not alone in its act. The Jews were not the only people who were targeted for extermination. Since around the 1840s, there have been many instances of genocides, including the Dzungar genocide, Armenian Holocaust, and the Romani Holocaust.
Genocide is an awful thing that continues to repeat itself throughout our history, and yet is still not considered a “big issue” because most genocides are quickly forgotten by the world despite the lasting impact that they have. The Dzungar genocide was left behind by the world and by history itself but was in no way forgotten by Western Mongolia; this caused strong disdain and prejudice towards the Chinese. The genocide was the mass extermination of the Mongol Buddhist
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It goes hand in hand with the Jewish Holocaust as it was also directed by Hitler. A supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws was issued in November 1935, classifying Romanis, or Gypsies, as "enemies of the race-based state," therefore placing them in the same category as the Jews. So, in some ways, the fate of the Roma in Europe paralleled that of the Jews in the Holocaust. It is estimated that between 220,000 and 500,000 Romani were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators—25% to over 50% of the slightly fewer than 1 million Roma in Europe at the time. Nowhere near the number of Jews killed, but the impact is still there. There were few examples in Night that talked about the imprisonment of Gypsies in Auschwitz along with other Jews, but most of those who were mentioned, I assume, were in a higher position of power because two of the three described a Gypsy as “a man who was in