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

could rest and get the attention they needed if they were wounded. They were

beat to death because there work is not up to par. Elie now only has a life

whatever they wanted. They were even treated a little better by receiving an

They had reached Auschivitz concentration camp where the families would be

streets of the district. Elie's family lived on Serphant Street, which

they were sent off to be put in wagons that tightly fit eight people, one

his father. On the way many of his friends and colleagues were shot because

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