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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines this period of time as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The word Holocaust comes from the greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire,” but since 1945 this word has been given a completely different meaning, the mass murder of 6 million European Jews. The holocaust was a war between two main parties, the Nazis, who came to power in 1933, and the Jews. Nazis were lead by Adolf Hitler, who had as a motive to kill all minorities in Germany. The Nazis believed they were the superior race and jews were considered to be inferior.

First off, a passage that really catches the reader’s eye by the use of imagery is when the Jews first arrive at the camp Auschwitz. The Jews are

The Holocaust was a systematic extermination of nearly six-million Jews. Holocaust means ‘Sacrifice by Fire’. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat to achieve approval and success. Elie Wiesel was a twelve year old Jewish boy from Sighet. The Hungarian police came to his town, put up a fence, and kept them inside the ghetto. Life inside the ghetto consisted of their everyday life. They just continued it between fence walls. A few weeks after the ghetto life started, the Jews of Sighet were transported to a smaller ghetto. A few days passed when the Hungarian police shuttled them into cattle cars- about eighty to a car. “Lying down was not an option, nor could we sit down” (Wiesel 23). The train ride was long and crowded. “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire” (Wiesel 24)! During the train ride a women cried out to warn the others what she is seeing. The people on the train panicked and had men quiet her down. They reached the most notorious camp that killed ninety-six hundred thousand Jews.

Elie Wiesel uses imagery to describe just how bad indifference has caused things to be. In the sixth paragraph, Wiesel uses imagery to describe the Holocaust, which was caused by indifference, and how the Holocaust affected the Jews in Auschwitz. He uses imagery by using strong diction to describe Auschwitz, saying, “…behind the black gates…most tragic of all…wrapped in torn blankets…unaware of who or where they were…they were dead and did not know it.” This use of imagery gives the reader a sense of how strongly indifference has affected the world. Wiesel uses imagery again near the end of the speech when he talks about the destruction and terror that the Jews faced sixty years prior to the speech being given by saying, “…after the Kristallnacht…hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put into concentration camps.” He uses words like “destroyed” and “burned” to describe how badly the Jews were treated because of indifference, but also because of how strongly they affect the audience. These words might bring up the destruction that they may have seen in their own lives and how much sadness it has caused them, helping the audience reflect their personal experiences

The Holocaust began around 1933 when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party. During that time, the first concentration camp, Dachau, was established to torture and kill Jewish people. Soon after, in 1935, Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews were decreed and depriving Jews of German citizenship. Germany then invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe. With the start of World War II came many more concentration camps, and millions of deaths. Six million European Jews lost their lives during this horrific time. Many survivors shared their stories after they were freed, so that the world would know of the horrors they experienced. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, told his story in his book, Night. Elie Wiesel was a teenager during the Holocaust, but lived on into his eighties and continued to speak out against what the Nazi’s did to his family.

Six million people, who were all Jews from men and women to children and infants, suffered grievous oppression. Those were six million people who were innocently murdered. Not only that, but those six million people were the primary victims courtesy of a despotic Nazi assassination. This is the scenery of the Holocaust, a 4-year period of a systematically brutal decimation of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and so on and so forth. The Jews fled from Germany clandestinely to make sure that. According to the evidence amassed with the sources given, the Holocaust started through unchecked patriotism.

For example, he begins to think why would God put him through the torture and bad things that he has been through. Before, Elie believed and was very interested in his religion (Judaism). His view on his God and his religion changed because of things Elie saw, the things Elie experienced, and the things Elie thought and did. Beliefs and religion is something that is hard to manipulate and change one's feelings towards. The Holocaust had extreme effects on Elie, and which will also influence his future generations, which not only affects just Elie but the whole world because of people's beliefs towards mankind and

The Holocaust was the murder and persecution of approximately 6 million Jews and many others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis thought that the “inferior” Jews were a threat to the “racially superior” German racial community. The death camps were operated from 1941 to 1945, and many people lost their lives or were forced to work in concentration camps during these years. The story leading up to the Holocaust, how the terrible event affected people’s lives, and how it came to and end are all topics that make this historic event worth learning about.

Elie Wiesel uses many literary devices to illustrate the inhumanity involved in the concentration camps. One literary device that he uses is imagery. He uses imagery to give a perspective on his experiences. He uses imagery to exhibit the pain that took place from the torture. For example, Elie says, “From the depths of the mirror,

If you ask anybody, they will know about the Holocaust, but if you ask how the prisoners felt, some wouldn’t know how to answer. Some felt an undying love for their family, others an undying hate for the Nazi regime, and many had their view of life completely changed. The latter was what had happened to Eliezer Wiesel, also known as Elie. During his memoir known as Night Elie’s tone continuously darkened throughout the book.

The Holocaust took place in 1941 in Germany. In total during the Holocaust six million Jews, and five million non Jews lost their lives to the Nazis. One of the nine hundred thousand survivors won the Nobel Peace Prize, and that would be Elie Wiesel. After this terrible tragedy Elie wrote the book Night describing his life as the Holocaust approached his family and the scary way he lost his family and friends to the Holocaust. The Holocaust changed Elie Wiesel in big and small ways, emotionally and his relationship with his father. The nazis starved him, beat him, make him watch horrible things (Such as Death), enslaved him, and all of this torture came to an end on May 5, 1945, when he was rescued by the Americans.

The Holocaust was a tragic event that involved the murder of millions of Jews from the years 1938 to 1945. Elie Wiesel was a victim to this, being a Jew himself. The book he wrote, Night, tells

In Germany and Eastern Europe the Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler because he disliked the Jews. He thought they caused the Great Depression which was from the collapse of the stock market. Also in Night by Elie Wiesel, he has seen hundreds of innocent people die before his eyes. During the holocaust many Jews died under the Nazis rule in Germany because the Germans didn't like them because of what they did. Many people died because of the conflict continuing between the Nazi's and Jews. The texts will be explained from the poem "Never Shall I Forget" by Elie Wiesel and "The Little Polish Boy" by Peter Fischl. These explain what it was like to be a Jew in captivity for many days and not having enough to eat, drink or sleep. But in Fischl's poem "The Little Polish Boy" this explains what it feels like to not speak up for other people. One personal truth, I have gained through studying these texts is that Hitler wanted justice for all Jews because he didn't want people that weren't like him alive.

Elie mimics what Moshe did. Elie Wiesel tells his story not for attention, but because Elie has already experienced the horrors, but in order to inform people so that this never happens again. There is a sense of constant fear and death portrayed by Elie Wiesel in his autobiography. This is why Elie Wiesel has an overall dark and and sad tone throughout the story. Elie Wiesel depiction of his holocaust experiences are very sad and dark. He wants to set the tone as dark and hopeless as possible.

As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz