Cruelty And Kindness In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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In Night by Eliezer Wiesel, Elie experienced and saw many acts of cruelty and kindness. Elie was a small boy that had faith he was gonna get out and survive the concentration camps. As a kid Elie and his family were liquidated from their home and taken to different concentration camps and they all tried to survive. When he first arrived he arrived at a camp called Buna which was in Auschwitz his family was separated by woman and kids to the right and men to the left. Elie didn't want to be separated from his father so Elie went with his father to the left. After a while the men were transferred to other concentration camps. When they left Buna Elie and the other men arrived in Gleiwitz. In Gleiwitz Elie saved his father from the selection

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