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Between five and six million lives were taken during the Holocaust. Just imagine being stripped from your entire life, and thrown into a prison where you were a witness of all of your friends and family, suffering before your own eyes. The treatment that people experienced during this time period was intolerable. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night to reveal the cruelty of the real world through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor.
Eliezer´s teen years were spent in a world of horror, after the age of 15. His whole family was deprived of their belongings, and separated from each other, and he was separated from his mother and sisters forever. They were taken from their home to a ghetto, and from there to different concentration camp. The things …show more content…

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. (Chapter 3, Page 22)” These words, spoken by Eliezer alone describe the hardships he was shoved towards in the long days that he spent at the camps. In just one night the whole Wiesel family was separated without goodbyes, or any hope that they would see each other again. They became objects of the Natzi’s , and anything that they said, did, or thought didn't matter …show more content…

When Eliezer and his father arrived at the camp they saw children being taken from their mothers by SS Guards, and families being ripped apart. Later, the prisoners found out that the awful smell that they had smelled on the train came from the same smoke they saw on the train coming into the camp, burning innocent victims of the camp. "Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…(Mrs. Schachter, Page 51)¨ Although Mrs. Schachter was mentally ill she was right; there was a fire. The people that were taken from their families were titled too weak or too old to work and they were instantly thrown into the crematory. Wiesel tells the readers this part of his story in order to give a visual of the horrific treatment that innocent people in the camps had to endure on a daily

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