What Is The Purpose Of The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed”(Elie Wiesel). The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, was published in 1956. Elie, a Holocaust survivor tells us his story about being in a concentration camps and how he got through it all. During the Holocaust Germany’s Nazis treated the Jewish people with extreme cruelty. It is important to understand this history through Elie’s personal experiences. One of the ways that the book shows how cruel the Nazis were to the Jewish people is when Elie and the rest of the Jewish people were put into a train with no bathroom, with little air, all crowded, not given enough food, and treated like animals. This is important because this was just the beginning of the long journey of torture. “There are eighty of you in this wagon… if anyone is missing, you’ll be shot like dogs”(18). This quote is important because German guards are treating innocent families with extreme cruelty. This shows that they were treating the Jewish people as if they were less than animals. It’s critical for that the

My idea is that one of the most painful ways to die. “Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky”(25). This quote shows that the Nazi threw Jewish people and babies into a fire as if they were nothing. This is important because Nazis really didn’t care about Jewish people’s lives. It’s critical that the readers think about this so they can understand that the Nazis had cold hearts. In conclusion, Nazis did not care about Jewish people and they have done many horrible acts, but this was the