Elie Wiesel's Night: The Horror Of The Holocaust

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

the story of he and his father on the torture through the holocaust. Graphic descriptions and good storytelling make the book a legendary memoir. When reading his story its detail puts you right in the holocaust as if you are taking a tour of the camps he went to. People of all ages were killed, Children hung, Adults gassed and many other cruel punishments are mentioned in his book. The pain the people had to go through is unimaginable. Elie wiesel received multiple awards and recognition for his book. He received the Nobel Prize in 1986 and was recognized by the president and many other people. At first he did not want to write about the events that happend because it was something he did not want to remember it. He wrote about it anyway and changed people's perspectives on the holocaust. After he wrote the book other survivors came out and told their story from there own point of view. The german officers involved with the event are now apologizing for the mistakes they made and the torture and deaths they caused. People can now understand the pain and torment that the jews had to go through. Elie wiesel died on July 2, 2016 after many of his years were taken away during world war 2.