Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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During the Holocaust between 1933-1945 over 6 million jews were killed because of their heritage. In our society there is a big issue with violence,intolerance,and marginalization so how can we resolve this peacefully?.(sentence tying these two things together)”There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution”(Milton n.pag.).Although countries value safety and security, people with different races,religion, and gender are often persecuted.
In many cases people with different religions are persecuted because of their beliefs or rituals. In the book Night by Wiesel, people of the Jewish religion are persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious beliefs. For example when the narrator of the book, Elie Wiesel is in Auschwitz he is describing how the food tastes,stating, "It tasted as though they fed us garbage from the 17th century" (Wiesel 78). The Jews in Auschwitz (as well as all the other concentration camps) were treated cruel like less then human beings. However like many Jews,Christians from Kayah, Myanmar are fleeing to Malaysia due to religious persecution from their government. "Myanmar isn't safe for us. They killed people, sent people to jail because of religion," (Kumar n.pag.) said one …show more content…

An old German propaganda pamphlet from WWII stated how it was believed a Jew was a “world parasite.” written was “the original appearance of his race: the stooped little filthy and greasy Jew”( Bytwerk n.pag.). The Germans actually believed that because someone wasn't the perfect Aryan race they should be wiped off the face of the earth. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the African Americans that live in the town of Maycomb were highly oppressed by the townspeople for their ethnicity (To Kill a Mockingbird n.pag.). An innocent man of color is killed because he is accused of raping a white women and because of his race he is presumed guilty even with no