Today students learn about the horrors of the Holocaust and how they can not let it repeat, but it took a long time for the world to do something about it. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel shares his story as a 15 year old trying to survive during Holocaust. The Holocaust was when Hitler and Nazi Germany killed million during World War II, about six million Jews were killed. Outsiders of the Holocaust would remain silent about the horrors because they were more worried about themselves, were in denial and didn’t know how bad it really was. People were more worried about themselves. At the end of chapter two, “On the way, we saw some young German girls. The guards begun to tease them… At least, during all that time, we endured neither shouting
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One of the first discriminating event, “One day all foreign Jews were expelled from sighet.” This is showing that no citizens, even Jews knew how bad it really was. They were just going away for a while right? Not to where they'd be killed. On the day they were being taken away, there was some concern from the other neighbors and friends but after a few days they all carried on with their lives, like nothing ever happened, because it was not themselves or their own family maybe? They had no idea what was going on, and still didn't try to look into it or find out what was really happening. Just watching your friends and family be taken from their homes doesn't seem like something fun to sit and watch. Back then there was no fast communication, but no one would even try to go to another town nearby to find out more information. On there way to another camp, “Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently… The train disappeared over the horizon, all that was left was think, dirty smoke.” This is when the foreign Jews were being taken out of their homes. They were treated like animals and were ripped away from their homes. The other civilians just watched, they didn't try to help. They didn't try to find out where they were being take, they just listen to the police and got on with there own lives. Not thinking that they could be and were next to be shoved in cattle cars for days, …show more content…
For the people that could actually see what was happening before most of the Jews, just watched as they were being taken to camps, when there was a small chance that they could have stood up for them. Other people knew what was happening or were told someway or another, just didn't want to believe that terrible, disheartening events were being taken place in this world. For the rest of the people that knew something was going on, didn't really know how bad it was, they weren't sure if people were just being moved to a different country or the truth, that they were being killed in gas chambers and burned in crematoriums. The Holocaust was horrible and unimaginable, but with the help of Elie Wiesel and his sad story, we can say the world is no longer
One of the first discriminating event, “One day all foreign Jews were expelled from sighet.” This is showing that no citizens, even Jews knew how bad it really was. They were just going away for a while right? Not to where they'd be killed. On the day they were being taken away, there was some concern from the other neighbors and friends but after a few days they all carried on with their lives, like nothing ever happened, because it was not themselves or their own family maybe? They had no idea what was going on, and still didn't try to look into it or find out what was really happening. Just watching your friends and family be taken from their homes doesn't seem like something fun to sit and watch. Back then there was no fast communication, but no one would even try to go to another town nearby to find out more information. On there way to another camp, “Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently… The train disappeared over the horizon, all that was left was think, dirty smoke.” This is when the foreign Jews were being taken out of their homes. They were treated like animals and were ripped away from their homes. The other civilians just watched, they didn't try to help. They didn't try to find out where they were being take, they just listen to the police and got on with there own lives. Not thinking that they could be and were next to be shoved in cattle cars for days, …show more content…
For the people that could actually see what was happening before most of the Jews, just watched as they were being taken to camps, when there was a small chance that they could have stood up for them. Other people knew what was happening or were told someway or another, just didn't want to believe that terrible, disheartening events were being taken place in this world. For the rest of the people that knew something was going on, didn't really know how bad it was, they weren't sure if people were just being moved to a different country or the truth, that they were being killed in gas chambers and burned in crematoriums. The Holocaust was horrible and unimaginable, but with the help of Elie Wiesel and his sad story, we can say the world is no longer