Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Into dark depths of the Holocaust

“Even in darkness, it is possible to create light.” this quotation by Elie Wiesel ties directly to the book Night showing the dark hardships and devastating things Elie had seen during the Holocaust but he still managed to get and push through to see the light. The book Night by Elie Wiesel talks about his eleven months time during the Holocaust affecting around seventeen million victims overall it was a time of mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals in places called concentration camps or labor camps. The time Elie had in the camps threw all the times of savage killing, theft of identity and brutal transportation during the time of raw dehumanization of the men and women in the Nazi lead death camps. …show more content…

At this point in time they were in the cattle car and this statement mean if someone tried to escape all the innocent people in the cattle car would be killed. The Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals were being killed every day with no question from the world, Nazis had one goal of elimination of the weak and they pushed to fill that goal with no question. Secondly, the Nazis took away the identity from Jewish people to strike a fear into them, taking everything they had. “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name (42)”. This has taken identity of the people taking away the only thing they had left their name. All they had after this moment was this tatoo on his arm. “Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies (35)”. The men and women were made equil at this point taking away there beauty and there strength to push through this point was made to bust there spirits. Lastly, the transportation of the Jews was very harsh between the extreme heat and cold while not having any food or water constantly starving along with sheer exertion many died during the moves from camp to camp. “The last day had been the most murderous. A hundred of us had got into the wagon. A dozen of us got out among them my

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