Elie Wiesel's History Of The Holocaust

¨It all happened so fast. The ghettos. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.¨ -Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a survivor from the holocaust who told his own story through books. According to the book History from the Holocaust, The Holocaust comes from the Greek words ¨holos¨ meaning whole and ¨kaustos¨ meaning burnt, some Jewish people were actually burned whole while they were still alive. The Jew were first put into ghettos, then deported to concentration camps. They were brutally murdered throughout the holocaust and that deeply affected the Judaic religion and the surviving Jewish people after the holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragic event for not only the Jews but for humankind, it is just another example of how cruel people can be. Adolf Hitler did many things to the Jewish people …show more content…
Concentration camps were a horrible place for the Jewish people. According the book History of the Holocaust, ¨Camps set up solely for the murder of Jews.¨ Conditions in these camps were terrible and unsanitary. Many people died because of exposure, starvation, exhaustion and lack of medical attention. The treatment in these camps were horrible. They were physically and mentally abused: they were put into ovens alive and treated physically and verbally like wild animals. They were also extremely hard to find, the United States and other allied nations found the camps but good guessing and accident. The concentration camps are one of the more well known part of the holocaust. People were treated like animals in extremely unsanitary conditions and it was just getting worse as time went on. Just imagine how much worse it would have been if allied nations did not find the camps until later. Now, just imagine the effect on the Judaic religion because of the