The Types of Scars that Don’t Fade
January 30th, 1933 marks the date that would set forth the beginning of a Genocide with a death toll of over 11 million people, now known as the Holocaust. Minorities of people like Jews, Polishes, homosexuals, and even people with disabilities were targeted under Hitler’s command. Of these people, many were killed by gassing and mass shootings. Those sent off to concentration camps instead were considered lucky. What many people did not know and still do not know is how the concentration camps were a mere figure of hell on earth. Only a small fraction of the people sent to concentration camps survived. One of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust is Elie Wiesel. It has been said that he “survived the …show more content…
In Night, Elie starts by describing how he was once a religious thirteen year old Jewish boy; but, that all changed when Elie was forced to leave his home and was sent off to a …show more content…
Today’s society must know about the harmful effects of the ghettos, mass shootings, extermination camps, and concentration camps. By educating the people, no man will ever be subjugated to such traumatic experience ever again. Unfortunately, Elie Wiesel, the writer of Night, had to experience the effects of the Holocaust firsthand. Elie was put in multiple concentration camps and still to this day feels the damage done to him emotionally, physically, and religiously. Elie will never be able to reverse the emotional damage of witnessing people being killed right in front of him. Everyday Elie wakes up, he has to be reminded by his scars of the past. Elie has to live knowing that he used to be completely devoted to God and was transformed to the point where he no longer felt Gods presence. Elie is not the only person who still feels the pain of the concentration camps and the Holocaust. In order to make an improved future society, those who have spoken up about the Holocaust must never be silenced until their
January 30th, 1933 marks the date that would set forth the beginning of a Genocide with a death toll of over 11 million people, now known as the Holocaust. Minorities of people like Jews, Polishes, homosexuals, and even people with disabilities were targeted under Hitler’s command. Of these people, many were killed by gassing and mass shootings. Those sent off to concentration camps instead were considered lucky. What many people did not know and still do not know is how the concentration camps were a mere figure of hell on earth. Only a small fraction of the people sent to concentration camps survived. One of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust is Elie Wiesel. It has been said that he “survived the …show more content…
In Night, Elie starts by describing how he was once a religious thirteen year old Jewish boy; but, that all changed when Elie was forced to leave his home and was sent off to a …show more content…
Today’s society must know about the harmful effects of the ghettos, mass shootings, extermination camps, and concentration camps. By educating the people, no man will ever be subjugated to such traumatic experience ever again. Unfortunately, Elie Wiesel, the writer of Night, had to experience the effects of the Holocaust firsthand. Elie was put in multiple concentration camps and still to this day feels the damage done to him emotionally, physically, and religiously. Elie will never be able to reverse the emotional damage of witnessing people being killed right in front of him. Everyday Elie wakes up, he has to be reminded by his scars of the past. Elie has to live knowing that he used to be completely devoted to God and was transformed to the point where he no longer felt Gods presence. Elie is not the only person who still feels the pain of the concentration camps and the Holocaust. In order to make an improved future society, those who have spoken up about the Holocaust must never be silenced until their