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Night And The Jewish Holocaust

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The Jewish Holocaust was a traumatic event that took place from the early 1930s to the mid 1940s. During the Holocaust, the Germans believed that they had racial authority among other civilians. Under the rule of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis targeted Jews and other groups due to their perceived "racial inferiority". For instance, they persecuted Jews, Gypsies, Elderly, Mentally Disabled, and Homosexuals (etc.) because they believed that they did not portray the behavior of the so-called “social norms”. They were sent to concentration camps and killing camps, to be starved or even beaten to death. This was the cause of death of approximately 6,000,000 Jews. The actions that the Germans took against these innocent people were inhuman. The book, Night, was written by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust. At the time, Elie was just a fifteen year old boy, living in a small town with his family. He aspired to have great knowledge of his Jewish religion. However, by the year 1944, he was taken from his home and separated from his mother and three sisters to be deported to several camps, along with his father. Throughout his journey, his admiration for his religion severely weakened, and he began to question if there really was a God looking after him. He witnessed the burning alive of “imperfect” men, women and children, hangings of those who disobeyed orders, and the death of his poor father. Himself, he suffered through consciously extracting his teeth with rusted

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