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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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    Kabbala one day. He is ignorant to the horrors of the concentration camps, as are many of the people around him. After he is liberated, he has little desire to go on living and barely recognizes himself upon seeing his own reflection. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (p. 115) Elie Wiesel experienced horrible things in the concentration camps, as detailed in Night, and they scarred him for the rest of his…

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    very little about the most infamous case of genocide in the world, the Holocaust. Altogether, the Holocaust was the mass murder of over six million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi direction in the 1940’s. Jews were led into camps where they died in horrific, inhuman ways. Between the number of people killed, methodology of the killing, and the premeditated destruction that was allowed by the entire world, the Holocaust is one of the most important genocides in the history…

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    time, german soldiers treated Jjews with cruelty. It 's referring back to how Jewsjews were treated in the concentration camp. The protagonist , Bbruno, that is leading the reader to the conflict and the resolve conflicts. Bruno was a very curious boy who liked to explore that once they…

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    moved into a ghetto. This was a small portion of the city or town that was fenced in barbed wire and surrounded by Nazi guards. The Jewish people in the town were then forced to relocate into these ghettos until they were transported to concentration camps. All over Europe, sometimes thousands of Jews were confined to a fenced in area that was only the length and size of a few city blocks. They would be under constant watch by…

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    countryside in Poland, only a small distance from a concentration camp. Unaware of the true horrors of the camp, Bruno, in spite of his mother’s wishes, goes exploring in the forest behind his new home and accidentally stumbles across the camp. He meets another eight year old boy named Shmuel who lives in the camp with his father. Bruno’s parents have sheltered him against the true purpose of the camp, which…

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    The physical abuse and corruption of power within the leadership of the camp and ghettos changed his mindset entirely. The Jews’ first experience of physical abuse is when the Jews were forced to line up in the smoldering heat, “The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and…

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    the military and government liked and trusted him, he was able to stay under the radar. “There was food and mountains of potatoes. One never went hungry…” a man named Abraham Zuckerman recalled. He had spent his teenage years in Nazi concentration camps. The first time he had heard of Oskar Schindler was when he was sent as a worker to his factory. “The moment that I arrived, I knew that my life had changed.” Said Zuckerman. “The movie showed one thing, but there were other things that…

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    survive the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the world today, there are many tragedies that happen every single day such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and fires, where people lose friends, families, homes and their valuables. The theme “Emotional Death is very evident in the book night by Elie Wiesel, and is still very evident in the world today. The first example from Night of the theme “Emotional Death” is when Moishe was trying to warn others about the concentration camps, but no one…

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    It has been 71 years since the end of the Holocaust, the event which ended up with six million Jews exterminated; the word “Genocide” was born, and the faith in God for the many of those who survived is challenged. Elie Wiesel, through his book, Night, narrated his experience in Auschwitz. It was where most of his family was not survive, where he had to see the scene of death, and where his God “were killed”. Throughout the story, the author showed that a person’s faith in God can be tested when…

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