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    significant reminder of the world’s history. Elie Wiesel used his experience as a Holocaust survivor to state the unnecessary horrors of World War 2. Through his writing, Wiesel acted as a testament for the Jews who died in the Holocaust and successfully conveyed the message of the increasing human indifference and lack of need for peace. Background Wiesel grew up in a religious family in a mountain village in Romania (Gornick 839). At the age of 15, Wiesel, his parents, his three sisters, and the

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    is memoir written the famous author, Elie Wiesel. Wiesel has even won the Nobel Peace Prize. Night is about Elie's experience throughout the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the killing of 11 million innocent people. Elie’s experiences in the camps and the rest of Holocaust changed him spiritually and altered his relationship with his father. Elie’s experiences in the concentration camps completely altered his devotion to God. In the beginning of the book, Elie was devoted to God. Every day, he would

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    Elie Wiesel The Holocaust was a terrible, dark time in the 1900s (1933-1945). Many Jewish families were broken up and killed. Elie Wiesel is one of the many who was saved from dying of starvation. Elie created stories based on his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He used persistence while in these camps by not losing the will to live. Elie inspired many people to live life to the fullest, (he didn’t get to live the perfect life he probably imagined when he was little) even if you

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    cruelty from the Holocaust is something people read and they wish it would not have happened. The story about a man named Elie Wiesel is something that makes people think. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the Holocaust, the book is a memoir and the name is Night. In the book, he shows people how Nazis acted during the Holocaust and how cruel they really are. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, cruelty reveals the theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Nazis, cruel, heartless beings, call the Jews names and

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    together to two other camps: Buna and Buchenwald. In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel illuminates the importance of family on a person’s ability to survive through the depiction of Eliezer’s relationship with his father. Because of his relationship with his father, Elie is able to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

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    In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when they were transported to another concentration camp and forced to run, “the ss officers were running as well they had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace.’’ (wiesel 85). When they were running to another concentration camp a boy named zalman got a stomach cramp, felt and got trampled by everyone. As the author describes his experiences, many other examples of inhumanity and disbelief. One theme in Night is that

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    “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes gazed at me and never left.” (Wiesel 115). Since the inmates were treated horribly for such a tremendous amount of time, it left images of the beatings they took, the never ending-work they had to do, and the killing of their friends in their head. Two main points proven in Night by Elie Wiesel is how he created stronger bonds with people and how he lost faith in someone he use to praise and pray to every day. When

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    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. At the beginning of the book, the only thing that Elie cared about was staying with his family. For example, during section 1, Elie wanted to stay with his family and didn’t want anyone to leave the ghetto. Also during section 3 on page 29, Elie was talking about the SS soldiers who were splitting families and sending

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    Night Elie Wiesel Quotes

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    “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire” (Wiesel 24)! Mrs. Schächter yelled to the other people on the train, warning them about what was going to happen. In the book Night Elie describes the life that he had during the Holocaust. This book is about how a twelve year old boy puts his old life behind and illustrates the many hardships that Hitler caused the Jewish people. The Holocaust was a systematic extermination of nearly six-million Jews. Holocaust means ‘Sacrifice by Fire’. Hitler used the Jews

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    Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was a Holocaust survivor—who encouraged by Francois Mauriac (a famous French writer)— broke his ten-year vow of silence and published Night, a memoir with intense first person point-of-view documentation of Nazi brutality. Wiesel’s Night holds significance because it is as personal and piercing as The Diary of Anne Frank. Overall, Elie Wiesel is an Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness to the six million Jews that were murdered in World War II. Today people recognize

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