Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night shows a first hand experience of the atrocity that was the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the only name that comes to mind when most Americans hear the word “genocide”. These people show ignorance to the mistreatment of Americans that occurred in their own country. The internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World 2 was a clear example of racial discrimination. Although the death toll was no where near comparable to that of the Holocaust, it was still an unfair oppression that holds its place in American history. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. “2,403 Americans were killed, and 1,178 were wounded”(“Attack on Pearl Harbor” Wikipedia). Approximately two months later on February
