Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

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While we probably all know that the Holocaust was a horrible stain on the fabric of society, Elie Wiesel's book shows that the acts of the Nazi's are more horrible towards the Jews than some of us may have been led to believe. Elie originates from a town known as Sighet located in what was previously known as Transylvania. Though Sighet was not part of Germany or Hungary, they were still abused by the SS soldiers, by trapping them in fenced off ghettos. They also soon transported them in a terrible cattle car ride, and treated them like slaves. But the meat of the story takes place in the concentration camp(s), where they are given minimal amounts of food and judged like dogs to see if they are worth keeping. Now, with all of that information in mind, let us jump into Elie Wiesel's "Night".

There, life seems to be normal for Elie (well as normal as one can be during a time of war). But soon SS soldiers start to approach Sighet's borders, and soon inhabit the homes of the Jews. They seem nice at first, but eventually they start implicating decrees, the first being the inability for Jews to leave their homes. This meant that the Jews must live off of what they already had in their homes. Then another decree was implemented, which made it to where all Jews must give up their valuable possessions to the Schutzstaffel (SS). Eventually the SS initiated the ghettos, fenced off areas inhabited by the captive Jews. The ghettos were more-the-less governed by Jews, with supervision of the SS, this gave them slightly more freedom in these small communities. In the ghettos, life slowly returned to "normal", children would be playing games and people would be walking down the streets carefree. But of course something bad happens, and Elie's father is called into a meeting. Once his father emerges back into the crowd, he tells them all one word,