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Book Report On Night By Ellie Wiesel

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The holocaust, the worst act in all of human history was about the Germans tried to exterminate the Jews. Hunger In Ellie Wiesel’s book hunger is a big concept because on page 59 it says “Two cauldrons of soup! Smack in the middle of the road, two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast going to waste! Supreme temptation! Hundreds of eyes were looking at them, shining with desire. Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking. But who would dare”. In the book after this paragraph it says suddenly we saw the door of block 37 open slightly. A man appeared, crawling snakelike in the direction of the cauldrons. Hundreds of eyes were watching his every move. Hundreds …show more content…

An SS officer had come in and with him the smell of the angel of death” Here it saying that the SS officer came in with the smell of death which means he is coming to take someone to the crematorium or he’s about to shoot someone. Death was very common at the concentration camps so the Jews got used to it but as they changed camp when they met Dr. Mengele it was a competition everybody was trying to knock the other person out because if they worked hard enough they would get named at a higher position like head of the crematorium at first it was hard for people because they would have to kill their own compatriots. Then when they had to fight for selection it didn’t matter anymore for anybody because all that mattered to them now was to get their food because when you get named a higher rank you get extra rations. To finish it the concentrations camp degraded people slowly in the worst kind of torture so that they would finally die. The main purpose of the concentration camps were to take all of the Jewish population gold because the Jews were really rich in gold. Theirs’s other reason too for the concentration camp a second reason was to take their hair and other stuff to help the Germans during the war because they didn’t want to spend money for

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