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Eliezer Wiesel's Night - Example Papers

Eliezer Wiesel's Night

The Book Night was the autobiography of Eliezer Wiesel. This was a
horrible and sobering tale of his life story. The story takes place in
Sighet, Translyvania. It's the year 1941 and World War II is occurring.
Eliezer was 12 at this time and wasn't really aware of what was occurring
in the world concerning the Jewish people. He had a friend who went by the
name Moshe the Beadle. Moshe was very good friend of Elezers'.

One day it was ordered that all foreign Jews in Sighet be deported by
German troops. They were told they had to wear yellow stars to identify
themselves. Eliezers friends Moshe was also a foreign Jew, which meant he
had to be deported. Eliezer did not see his ...

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it did happen. All
the people of Sighet were jammed into train cars and shipped to the
concentration camp of Aushcwitz. At that point Eliezer was separated from
his family forever with the exception of his father. There was a large
crematory in Aushcwitz. You could smell the burning flesh in the air.
Eliezer was ordered to the crematory. He came within two paces of it, but
then was ordered to the barracks. He was saved for that night only. After
that incident, he lived with fear of when was he going to die.

Eliezer later went to other concentration camps in Bakenau and Buna.
During these years in the camps he lived through great suffering.
Starvation, and survival. He also witnesses thousands of people die and
murdered including his own father. Eliezer was finally shipped to
Buchenwald. Which would end up being his last stay at any concentration
camp. It was now the year 1945 and this ordeal was finally over. Allied
forces had defeated the German troops and the ...

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Added: 12/5/2006 05:49:53 AM
Category: Book Reports
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