The Holocaust in Night by Elie Wiesel Essay -- essays research papers

Author Elie WieselDo you see that chimney everyplace there? See it? Do you see those flames? Over there- thats where youre going to be taken. Thats your grave, over there. Havent you realize it yet? You dumb bastards, dont you understand anything? Youre going to be burned. Frizzed away. Turned into ashes.The Holocaust lasted from 1939-1942. During these tough and traumatic years Hitler killed over 6,000,000 people, by and large Jews, but the retarded, homosexual, and handicapped were also murdered. But the Jews did make it th rocky these rough times. They survived only on courage, dreams, and hope.Before World War II, Elie Wiesel led an cut-and-dried life for a teenage Jew at the time. He went to synagogue and he went to school, (which at the time not many people went to), and that was a everyday day for him up until the Germans came and took them away to the concentration camps. He liked having broad discussion with a homeless person named Moshe. One day Moshe travel to a di fferent town. When he came back to Sighet, Transylvan...