Malnutrition In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

During the Holocaust the Jewish people and other prisoners in the camps had to face many issues. The Holocaust started in 1933 and finally ended in 1945. During these 12 years all kinds of people in Europe and many other places had so many different problems to suffer through. These people were starved, attacked, and transported like they were animals.
These Jews and other people were held in camps for years and barely fed any food. These prisoners barely got 2 meals per day. In the book Night it explains how the prisoners were starved and how they did not get enough food to survive. Many people died from malnutrition in the camps. According to an internet source the prisoners got a quart of watery soup and they would be lucky to find a turnip

peel or tomato peel in it. For dinner, prisoners received a small piece of black bread with butter, margarine, or cheese. If the prisoners got super lucky, they would receive a small piece of sausage with their bread. The prisoners in concentration camps were fed horribly and barely survived.
The people in concentration camps and death camps also had to face another problem, selection. Once the Jews were off the trains and separated into males and females, they faced selection. The SS and other officers would carefully look at each Jew that came off the train. Any person that the SS and other officers did not like would be sent to the crematorium and be burned. In the beginning of the book Night, it explains how Elie and his father arrived at the camp and faced selection. The officers said “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (page 29). Once the men and women were separated the officers carefully looked over the men. Most of the women were sent straight to the crematorium. Any men that did not survive selection would also be sent to the crematorium. An internet source says that men over 14 were usually sent to work, while children under 10 were sent straight to their death. The selection process was a deadly process that many people were killed after.
The prisoners that were transported to camps or other places were usually transported in trains.

The Jews were packed tightly and stuck in train cars for days or even a week depending on where they were going. These people had no clue where they were going, no clue how much longer it would take, and no clue what would happen once they stepped off of the train. In the book Night it explains how Elie was transported in a cattle car with about a hundred more people shoved into it. Some people in these cattle cars could not survive the long journeys and died. The prisoners in the cars went to the bathroom on the floors which just worsened the conditions. Halfway through the journey, the train would stop and any dead prisoners would be thrown out of the cattle cars. Anybody who was still alive went on to their destination. In an internet source is talks about how cruel and horrible the conditions were inside of these transport cars.
In conclusion the Holocaust was a horrible thing. It created a world war that could only be stopped by someone winning. The Jews and other prisoners got caught in the crossfire of this world war. The Jewish people and many other prisoners that were in the camps face starvation, selection, transport, and many other

issues.