Horrors In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

The Horrors of Auschwitz

The Holocaust, which started in 1933 and continued to 1945 was an awful time where Jews were murdered and sent to concentration camps to die.

In Poland one of the largest concentration camps, Auschwitz, where 1.3 million people died.
Auschwitz, the death camp, was a horrible place where many people died, lost hope, and were stripped of civilization all because of their religion and race.

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Topic Sentence: Auschwitz was a death camp where they forced people to work and kill others.

Auschwitz, which opened in 1940, was the largest death camp. It was a place where the Jewish were often killed by gas chambers, slave labor, and even experiments.

In the book Night, Elie wiesel describes his time

The Jews weren't able to use the shower unless they were told so which was very scarce. They also didn’t have clothes that fit, and they never were full.

From the book night, Elie Weisel described his first day, “As we ran, they threw the clothes at us, pants, jackets, shirts…..” No one was able to have proper clothes that fit. This is a good example of how the Jews were stripped away from being human and were treated like animals. Nowadays if anyone treated someone else like this they would get in legal trouble.
Sadly that wasn't close to the end of all the mistreatment, Elie also describes how everyone was longing for food, even a crumb. From night during an air raid there was a big pot of soup left out, “ Poor hero committing suicide for a ration or two more of soup… In our minds he was already dead.” As they were starving to death even a sip of soup was worth dying for. They were not treated right which therefore led them to be beasts who would die for a sip of soup.

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Topic Sentence: Auschwitz was a camp made to torture and hurt Jews as much as possible, many Jews did not make