Korb expresses the loss of innocence of many prisoners during the Holocaust, including Wiesel. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau were Hitler's playland. Concentration camps are greatly known for genocides and the traumatizing terrors' many victims encountered. The Jews of Sighet were discriminated against their religion and were taken away from their homes to be overly work in an inhumane way. Families have torn apart, relationships became a lesser value to the prisoners as their main focus was to survive. It was a war between life and death. Wiesel lives in a community that consisted of innocent civilians who was forced into a world of death. Standing before Wiesel was a corpse that he unrecognized only to realize that his innocence and identity
