Elie Wiesel a Holocaust Survivor
In nineteen thirty-three Adolf Hilter and his Nazi army brought about the climax of antisemitism with the holocaust. Hilter claimed the Jews were the source of all their problems and the reason they lost World War one and the following economic downfall; Furthermore, Hitler believed that Germany could not be saved until the Jews were rendered powerless. The holocaust lasted from nineteen thirty-three to nineteen forty-five and millions of people were murdered.
Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky few who escaped the concentration camps. In 1956 Elie Wiesel published his first book Night about his experience in the Holocaust. In the beginning of the book he writes about how everyone in his community did not believe that Hitler would ever be
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Eventually the German army were in their streets but no one did anything because the soldiers were not causing any problems. Elie writes about how even some of the jews housed the soldiers and during that time the soldiers were very respectful, but one day the German soldiers received orders to move all the Jews into two ghettos that were just built in the city (Wiesel7). The Jews try to be optimistic though and see it as an opportunity to build a closer community because now they get their own spot of the city for themselves, they even set up a council and police force. Elie writes that the adults are trying to paint it as a brighter picture ignoring the fact that their outside windows facing the city are closed up and boarded from the outside and they are surrounded by barbed wire (Wiesel 9). Later Elie and his family were deported to