Soviet Ethnic Cleansed In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

A thunderous banging sounds on the door, waking the children from their peaceful slumber. The entire family is evicted out of their home, the one where the babies first walked and holiday meals were shared, and thrown into dirty, cramped encampments, thousands of miles from their hometown. During the Soviet Ethnic Cleansing, entire families were uprooted and forced into inhumane labor camps. Millions of deportees died along the journey and at the encampments during the later years of World War II. In the USSR during the 20th century, the Soviet Ethnic cleansing was the most silent of genocides due to the nonexistent government intervention, foreign ignorance, and hushed brutality. First and foremost, the Soviet government only acknowledged

In Night, the author describes the life of Eliezer, a young boy who experiences the Holocaust as a victim. While he is in a concentration camp, he witnesses his dad beaten and tortured in front of his own eyes. Eliezer is unable to do anything except watch. He is unable to move because he was so afraid and becomes a bystander (Wiesel 106). The silence is what allowed for the Holocaust to occur. Revolution is ludicrous when the power the Nazis hold over the prisoners is a silent noose in itself. The prisoners are passive to this treatment, giving up their power to the Germans. Before, Elie would have fought for anything to save his father, but he too stands aside when his father is beat near the end of his life. Taking away a will to fight back, the Holocaust arose as a result of silence from the victims themselves and the silence from other countries. Genocides can only grow to such a mammoth size due to the suppressing of voices and brutality of those affected. During the first wave of expulsions in 1941, known as the “June deportations”, men were imprisoned and died in prison camps, and women and children were resettled; only half of them survived. Similarly, during another set of evictions, 90,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians were sent to Gulag prison camps or special settlements. Housing and clothing were not adequate, and consequently, “43% of the resettled population died of diseases, malnutrition, and general mistreatment during this period” (Pereltsvaig). The suffering was silenced by the government, workers, and countries involved in these deportations to render these deaths concealed and mute. Standards of living were taken away, and along with work exploitation, disease, harsh climates, and malnutrition, lead to the deaths of those deported. Those suffering the lack of appropriate treatment did not speak up, allowing for the continuity of the abuse. The dying had no