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    Wiesel was deported from his home as a youth and shipped to the death camp that has become infamous throughout generations for its cruelty, Auschwitz. Shortly after arrival, Wiesel was stripped of nearly everything including…

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    Night is a nonfiction book explaining Elie Wiesel 's experiences in many different concentration camps and how it has affected him. The book begins with elie studying Kabbah like his father wants him too. Sadly he is just not understanding the main pieces of the religion.Ellie gets help help from Moishe the Beadle to help him with his studies. Most the beetle was supposedly some kind of Person who could tell the future. He said the Germans were coming and that they were bad. The only problem was…

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    “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them again.” Elie Wiesel, who has written many memoirs, such as Night, takes the reader through what life was like for him throughout the Holocaust. The memoir is set in two Nazi German camps, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, at the height of the Holocaust towards the end of World War II. The first sign of Loss of Faith is when a Cabala teacher asked him why he prayed. This caused Elie to really think about why he actually prayed. He finally concludes…

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    Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, Nazis destroyed thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, burned most synagogues, and arrested more than 30,000 Jews to take to concentration camps in Germany and Austria. The Nazis created ghettos in which Jews were kept when awaiting transport to concentration camps (Berenbaum). At the concentration camps, the prisoners were slowly deprived of the most basic of psychological and physiological needs. In 1939, Hitler signed the Euthanasia Decree. After…

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    many prisoners that were sent to these death camps was Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was 15 years old when he was first entered the most famous concentration camp, Auschwitz. He was painfully unaware of the torture he would encounter but fought for survival and succeeded. In his personal memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses characterization, figurative language and symbolism to bring to light what happened to him and the other prisoners at these horrid death camps. Elie Wiesel uses characterization and…

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    “ Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one,” - Bruce Lee My hook relates to the book Night, a book by Elie Wiesel who is a Holocaust Survivor who had suffered in a concentration camp with his father, because it is saying how you can’t pray for an easy life, you have to be strong enough to live through it.It is about horrors of the Holocaust in first person, and how Wiesel and his father endured it. In Night, Elie and his father’s relationship changes…

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    Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-Jewish author who is best known for conveying his story through his books and for being a political activist. He is also known for helping people who survived the Holocaust of World War. Elie Wiesel was born on 30 September 1928 in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, now a part of Romania (Elie Wiesel Biography) He grew up with his Father and Mother. Their names were Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig. Wiesel was encouraged by his father to learn modern Hebrew…

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    people were discriminated against the most. Hitler even had Jews wear the Star of David to isolate them from everyone else and make them an easier target for the Nazi police. In attempts to hide the truth about what really occurred inside the concentration camps, the Nazi…

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    Change is to make or become different. Elie Wiesel’s Night tells the journey of a teenage boy who is put through two concentration camps; Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He goes through a lot of adversity and suffering to make it out alive. He learns that self-preservation is an ally instead of his greatest enemy. But it is after he considers his father to be a burden that he realizes that he has changed. Early on in the book, Eliezer shows that he was more selfless rather than selfish. When given…

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    collaborators terrorized Jews by taking away their rights and sending them into camps where many unpleasant happenings occurred, and German doctors experimented on Jews without consent. On January 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.…

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