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The Holocaust By Elie Wiesel

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Imagine Being beaten, starved, and sleeping in tiny rooms with 30 other people everyday of your life. The holocaust is one of the worst time periods in history. Millions of people murdered because of their beliefs, looks, and even because of a mental disease. The nazis were the worst people in the world at that time, murdering and torturing innocent people because they thought they were dominant. Millions of people were impacted by the holocaust because they were separated from their families, starved, and the mass number of deaths..
First of All, people were separated from their families. In the text it states “spared at the last minute by an officer of the dreaded SS who yanked the teen away from his family and sent him instead to a forced …show more content…

As you can see “People at Buchenwald concentration camp were all skin and bones.” In the image all you can see is these poor men who were so skinny you could see their whole rib cage. People are meant to have some meat on them, so they can look healthy. It is not healthy if you can see their bones through the skin. In the text Wiesel presents “My father had a present for me: a half ration of bread.” These people were so starved that a present was a piece of bread. Bread is not very filling so they had to live of being hungry. When you don't eat enough ever your body will eat the fat away and that's why these people were so skinny, which I learned in health class. After all, People were fed very little so they were pretty much starved to …show more content…

According to Twist of Fate it states “ some 300 holocaust survivors were at Auschwitz on Tuesday, along with several European presidents and other government officials, to honor at least 1.1 million who were murdered 1 million of were Jews.” This shows that tons of people were killed during the holocaust, because someone thinks he is more important than another race. It's crazy that a man like this could have ever existed. According to night “ Whenever he found someone extremely frail-he would write down his number: good for the crematorium.” So if someone was weak they wouldn't even try to revive them or heal them, they would just simply kill them. They did not want for the Jews to live, so every time they had an excuse to kill one they would. Makes sense right, just kill people because you think your better than them. In the end hitler was a terrible man who convinced Germans that Jews needed to be

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