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Thief Vs Night

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The Holocaust was a very memorable time in our history and there is a lot we can learn from it. The books Night and The Book Thief are good examples of what went on during the Holocaust in and outside of the camps. The book Night , an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel tells the story of what it was like inside the camps and how he survived it. The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak is a historical fiction book tell about how it was like to live in a small town in Germany. Both these book have a lot of interesting facts and there is so much we can learn from them. In the 1940’s, Germany was a tough place to live for most people. I learned much about the Hitler's youth and what it was like to live in small town at that time through The …show more content…

11 million people died during the Holocaust 1.1 million of those people where children and 6 million were Jews. (DoSomething.org) Jews were taken out of there homes and forced out of business. Jewish people got sent to ghettos and concentration camps. The Jews were forced to work and live in awful conditions. The Nazis punished these civilians in many horrible ways. There life ended by being gassed, burned, shot or beaten to death. The gas chambers were relatively small, constructed to kill those prisoners the Nazis thought couldn’t work. (Gassing Operations) Zyklon B was a type of gassed used to kill many Jews. Zyklon B is a type of gas that infects your respiratory system and makes you suffocate to death. KIlling by gas was a new and easier way to kill of the Jews. After selection many Jews were told to take a nice shower. They took off all there clothes and sent into the burners where they were burned alive. Another way they died was by torture. Block 11 was a jail inside of the Auschwitz concentration camp. At this block Jews who disobeyed and people who were against the Nazis were beaten and shot against a brick wall inside of the block. (Block 11) Many good people died during this time and we will never forget the people who died in these camps. After reading these books and researching the Holocaust it made me realize that I have such a good life. These books told me all about the people who died and how all their towns fell apart. They talked about how families were being separated and people being forced from their homes. All the people who got told killing the Jews was good and witnessing people being murdered would have been horrible. I think that is is a good thing to be able to reads these books and learn about the history of this terrible time so we don’t have to repeat the

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