The Holocause

over 55 years ago, but why is it still so important to us today? One of the many

reasons it is still widely discussed today, is because of the many rights it

violated for the Jews as human beings. The main goal of the holocaust was for

Nazis to try and kill every Jewish person alive in Europe. Many Nazi leaders

tried their hardest do to this, and went unpunished for their actions. All of

this tradgedy and calamity started when Adolf Hitler came into power.

Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich came to power in 1938, the Jews in Europe

knew they were in trouble. Hitler blamed them for Germany's rapid fall as a

world power and he made sure they were to be punished for their supposedly wrong

doings. Elie Wiesel's novel Night, is about his own

family's struggle to survive the terrifying years of the early

1940's. Wiesel exists in a minority of Jews who lived to share his

unfortunate and disturbing experiences. Elie, his three siblings, and

were from Sighet, Transylvania. Most of the townspeople believed that living

in Sighet put them far out of Hitler's reach, but they eventually were forced

of many of the soldier's kindness, the townspeople were still not

The townspeople came together to form a little Jewish Republic because all

over 40 and Elie was under 18. Without that helpful information they both

cafes, and synagogues were taken away from the people and they were not

first American tank. "The first act of as free men was to throw

Nazis because they would not come as far as Sighet. He figured by that time

house had to be given up for relatives who have lost everything they owned.

stayed strong and for the most part stayed upbeat about the situation keeping

there tradition alive through prayers, eating good food, and singing songs to

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