Night Research Paper

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We have been learning about the Holocaust and World War 2 for many years as part of our social studies curriculum. Most of us probably, and I hope, know that this was a bad thing for Hitler to do and be a part of. You always feel more empathy and sadness when you actually read documentaries about people that have experienced this terrible time. The story Night by Elie Wiesel shares her personal experiences of being kicked out of her hometown and being transported to the camps, what happened at the camps and the impact it had on her, and how there was so much death going on and barely anybody survived. Hungary a place where Jews are happily living their lives until the German armies take it all over. The German armies kick all of the Jews out of their homes and start taking them in smaller groups to the trains where they will be transported. Eliezer, the main character, …show more content…
The Nazis started up many extermination camps in Poland where people would be sent just to be killed. Here they used poison gas chambers to kill all of them. In just the year of 1942, they killed around 2.7 million jews, which happened to be the most intense year of killing during that time. These facts should be surprising to you and all of the terrible things they did to Jews during this time. (BBC News and Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution).

In conclusion, Elie Wiesel has shared many of her own experiences in her book Night. It is always hard to believe that a group of people could have done this to millions and millions of people. In the story, it focuses pretty much on the transportation to the camps, everything that happened there, and the death of the Jews making it the worst time to be alive. This was one of the most disgusting and worst things to have ever happened in history and the groups of people that were affected didn’t deserve any of

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