Elie Wiesel's Night: The Horror Of The Holocaust

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The stories of the holocaust can be told through story telling. Many jewish authors write about the event that happened during world war 2. Authors such as Elie Wiesel, Philip Roth and many others that experienced the holocaust first hand and wrote about it in the memoirs and stories that they shared with the world to remember the events that happened. many people died and not that many survived. The horrors of the holocaust were told in graphic detail from the point of view from the few survivors. There books make people realize the effect it had on people. Elie Wiesel wrote his memoir called “Night”. He retells the story of a little jewish boy that is deported and sent to a concentration camp. Scared and afraid of what to come it tells

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