"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one
long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never
shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke
beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to
live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my
dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God
The Holocaust-the mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis during World War II. It
was the unthinkable, the horrific murder of 6 million Jews and millions of civilians of different
ethnic and racial backgrouds. It was average men entering the German army and turned into
Nazis, cold-blooded killers. It was the connotation of Holocaust which became Night, by Elie
Wiesel. This paints a picture, full of vivid imagery and truth, about the genocide of his own
people. Elie witnesses the starvation, brutal beating, and eventual death of his friends, family,
and fellow Jews. Wiesel, himself, survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and Gleiwitz, all
German concentration camps, where atrocities such as cremation and murder hung thickly in the
Born September 30, 1928, Eliezer Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish
children. Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family, religious
study, community, and God. Yet his family, community, and his innocent faith were destroyed
upon the deportation of his village in 1944.
One of the main topics in this book is how Elie, a boy of strong religious faith, along with
many of his fellow jews, lose their faith in God due to the hor
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