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World War II and the diseased mind of Hitler were the factors the led to the Genocide of the jews. People who were not the superior race in Hitler's opinion did not deserve to live. Jews were the target of the extermination. To establish his plan Hitler created Concentration Camps, where people were forced to work. Those that were considered useless became fuel for the gas chambers and crematory. Hitler's long term goal was to wipe out all the Jews. In the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author retells the unforgettable hardship and suffering that he goes through while he is in the concentration camps. In this novel, Elie helps us realize and visualize the brutality and madness of the camps and SS officers. His struggle for survival and the horror that he is exposed to changes his life forever. Elie's experiences at the camp have a dramatic impact on his faith, his relationship with his father and his innocence. By reading the following quote you can hear Elie Wiesel anguish and what an impact concentration camps had on his faith. "Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never I shall forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those
They were together and they both were struggling to survive. If they gave up death would become their way of escaping. The story of Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of six million Jews must not be forgotten, lest history repeat itself. For his punishment he is placed in a wooden box and is whipped twenty-five times, until he loses consciousness. " His face stayed in my memory to this day". I felt that I was giving it up against my will". He wonders why has God abandoned His people , and why is he letting so many innocent people suffer. While he is with his father at the camp he becomes a witness to horrifying event. Those were only some of the brutal events that went on at the concentration camps. When the hunger and suffering increases it makes him grow up very fast, and then he eats anything just to survive. As they spent more time as the camp they both grew weaker, due to the lack of nutritious food and excessive amounts of work. " Before he was exposed to other mans madness and brutality he had faith in God and lived for him. When Elie and his father reaches Aushwitz they are given a speech by a SS officer. Elie had no way of escaping the horrors that hunted him through out all his life.
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