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Personal Narrative On Night By Elie Wiesel

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As I leaped out of the cattle car after that long, terrible ride, i heard a Nazi soldier saying that family will be kept together and work will not be hard. I did not believe that one bit because my mother was already taken away and things are already going really bad. Then we got into a line and marched into the camp. The, i noticed that the gate of the camp says that work makes you free. After I read those words I knew things were going to be way worse than ever. When we got into the camp I noticed that all the hundreds of Jews here looked to grey,hopeless and they all looked like skeletons I can tell that they haven't eaten food in a long time I was completely frightened. Then I noticed that a Jew was laying on the ground, a few minutes

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