The Importance Of Death Camps In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The holocaust was a very tragic and disconsolate time in history. As clearly suggested in Night by Elie Wiesel, this specific time in history was a very dark time for any individual who was looked down upon by the Nazi’s. Individuals were forced into labor camps,while in these camps they lost their moral, their life, and sometimes they began to lose their mind. All concentration camps were either labor camps or death camps, and virtually anyone who went to these camps would not survive to see the end of Hitler 's power. In the next paragraphs, my objective is to address why certain people were put into the concentration camps, what kind of treatment did the prisoners receive, and after being liberated by the Soviet Union, what happen to the freed prisoners. Hitler came to power in the early 1930’s, he had his own ideology and thoughts about people who were not German. He believed that …show more content…

these all resulted in a meager amount of survivors. It was estimated that less than 1% of people pulled through holocaust. Those that had made it through the holocaust lost moral, their loved ones, and forgotten who they once were. “My eyes had been opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without god, without man, without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long,” (Wiesel 68). Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors, and it was remarkable how he was able to hold on for so long. Many were not capable of keeping a reasonable state of mind. After being liberated by the Soviet Union many were mentally unstable and suffered from depression. Imagine going through hell, and living through it, that is exactly what it would be like for any survivor. Some had even felt guilty about the deaths of family members and friends, always wondering why they had made it out and the others had

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