The Jewish Community In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Imagine you are taken from your home, round up with all of your neighbors and packed together like animals into a space that is used to haul livestock. No one tells you how long it’ll take to get there, how long it’ll take to get there, or even how long they’re leaving for. This is how the Germans took control over the Jews. Elie Wiesel’s brings you alongside his journey as he recounts the horrific events he went through, in his book Night. World War II is raging on, but the Jewish community that Elie and his family live in aren’t worried. Germans have moved into their town and forced the families to live in ghettos, but they still didn’t think much of it. The Germans slowly take more and more control over them, taking all of their valuables, making them wear yellow stars identifying them as Jewish. Soon after the worst news they'd received yet came. “‘The news is terrible,’ he said at last. And then one word: ‘Transports’.” (Page 13) Elie and his family spread the news they had received, alerting as many neighbors as they could before they had to go prepare to be transported. Cattle car by cattle car the Jewish families were forced into the cars. “The Hungarian Police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one. They handed us some bread, a few pails of …show more content…

Being treated like filthy, worthless animals. Fighting for every breath, no matter what it might mean they have to do. This is exactly what Hitler wanted to do to them. He wanted to break them down, beat them, take everything they know and love away from them. He was successful with most of them, but I don’t think he got to all of them. Elie was able to fight it off, being motivated to keep going for his father. Elie was able to hold on to the one thing left in the world that he loved, that is what the difference was between him and the rest of the men that had been turned to savage

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