Beaten to a pulp, worked like animals, and tortured day in and day out, that was the life of the prisoners in the novel Night which is based on the Holocaust. The soldiers and men in authority in the concentration camps had no respect for the prisoners and did not care about their lives. They did what they pleased with the prisoners. The inhumane acts performed by these men in Night were many, but the most serious and severe were as follows; the prisoners were separated from their families and friends, fed nothing but soup, bread and water, and watched as other prisoners died in front of their eyes.
             Being separated from one's family is never easy, but when the circumstances are the way they were in the Holocaust, it is horrific. "For a part of a second I glimpsed my mother and my sisters moving away to the right. Tzipora held Mother's hand. I saw them disappear into the distance; my mother stroking my sister's fair hair, as though to protect her, while I walked on with my father and the other men. And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever." This was an excerpt from Night where the main character is separated from his family for the first and last time. There were times when men, grown men, were only living for the thought of seeing their families again. As soon as they found out their families were dead, they wanted to be dead, body and mind. The cruelty that these "men" showed was unimaginable. Knowing that the prisoners had nothing left in their lives but their families, the soldiers would take that away.
             Food is a needed supply to live. Without food, people will die. But is eating meager rations of soup bread and water better than dying? That is what the men that ruled over them fed the prisoners in the concentration camps. And sometimes they were not even fed bread and soup. The prisoners would have to go days, even
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