Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout the history of the human race we have achieved many good titles, and have done a lot of good things. But there are also a lot of things that we should be and are ashamed of. One of those things is what we call the Holocaust. During World War II Germany went on a rage in Europe trying to take over the world, the Jewish population was in their way. So Hitler, the “ruler” of Germany at the time, ordered the transportation of Jewish people to his already made concentration camps spread all around his “kingdom”. He ordered the persecution and assassination of millions of Jewish people… Now some people might say that the Holocaust did not happen and that is was all faked, but I am going to talk a little bit about how it is an impossible …show more content…

His town was evacuated during the Holocaust and his family was shipped to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. He survived the Holocaust and later wrote about it in a book called Night. If you read the book it gives descriptions about the camps they were moved to and the conditions they lived through. He describes the entire ordeal with great detail and specifies aspects about the war. Now there are critics out there that swear up and down the Elie Wiesel did not actually go through the Holocaust and that the book Night was faked, and in doing so they are stating that the Holocaust was “fake”. But to have a book written with such detail that the Holocaust existed just for kicks is absurd, plus Elie Wiesel was a real man, and his book proves that he had to have suffered a holocaust and its consequences. The book states that his father died and his father was dead after WWII, and the description of Auschwitz matches with photos from WWII once again proving that he was there. And what about all the photos of hundred of bodies piled up inside a barb wire surrounded village. How can anyone get passed the fact that back then photos could not be processed like they are today. Also hundreds of Allied soldiers gave accounts of what they found in german camps throughout Europe, it's just impossible to get thousands of people to tell the same lie. Critics want to say how all this evidence is false, but I see no …show more content…

The Holocaust started in 1941 and ended in 1945. (Wikipedia) And during that time period Jewish people were systematically killed adding numbers up to six million by the end of the Holocaust, one and a half million being children. Now take into account that not only Jewish people were targeted, the Nazi regime murdered many other races they thought weren't helpful to the Third Reich. Johovas Witnesses, hopmosexuals, mentally and physicaly challenged people were also killed. Adding the numbers up to a sickening eleven million victims… (Wikipedia) The nazis started construction of concentration camps in 1933, and then built ghettos after the start of WWII in 1939, and by 1942 there was millions of Jewish People being transported by trains and trucks into the concentration camps. Where they would be systematically killed in gas chambers for no reason except their religion. (Wikipedia) The Jewish people started to collaborate and make plans against their enemies, they started to uprise and revolt against the Nazis and some attacks were successful in getting Jews out of the camps alive. But some of them you be hunted down and shot as an example of what would happen to you if you tried to escape. Now, most escapes weren't successful, most of the times the jews revolting in the camps were simple mowed down at the guard's orders. Now, there were other forces outside of the camps that were more successful, called the underground

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