The Jews were the main focus of the Nazis but their primary target was the Jewish children. This occurred because they were the next generation of Jews and they would eventually have Jewish children of their own. Therefore the Nazis persecuted and systematically killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust and affected human beings worldwide tp shift their way of thinking and seeing things since they couldn’t believe someone can do such cruelty to millions of people. This change humans have when they learn about the torture the Nazis have inflicted on others, like Elie; the protagonist of Wiesel’s memoir; may lead people to transform in a bad way. The Holocaust memoir by Elie Wiesel indeed shows the extreme circumstances negatively change
