Cruelty In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Kate Sheppard once said, " All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhumane, and must overcome." In other words, in human history, people were treated inhumanely in cases such as the Holocaust and slavery in the U.S.
The Holocaust, mostly known for treating Jews like if they were animals, and with cruelty. For example, in the memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel, tells us about how cruel the Jewish people were treated. Some of the cruel acts that the Nazi Party did to the Jewish people were throwing innocent people to the fire, sending them to gas chambers, and starving them to death. These cruel events by the Nazi Party, lead to horrors to innocent

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