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Elie Wiesel's struggle to survive the Holocaust

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Father and Son Relationship in Elie Wiesel 's book Night

The World War II Holocaust denotes the systematic genocide of approximately six million Jews by the German Nazi regime when Jews were seen as undesirable ' therefore should be annihilated . The Nazis deprived the Jews of their civil rights , confined them to ghettos , and deported to concentration camps . Those who did not die of starvation and brutality were executed by firing squad

or in gas chambers in the most horrible camps to include Auschwitz in southern Poland and Buchenwald in central Germany . This was patterned to the Biblical holocaust which meant a sacrificial animal completely consumed by fire

Night ' is an autobiographical narrative of the author /narrator Elie Wiesel 's life dating from 1941 , when he was 12 years old , to 1945 after three and a half years of struggle , during World War II . Its central character is Elie Wiesel himself who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and soon separated from his mother and sisters . It traces how Elie and his father struggled and survived the brutality and inhuman treatment of prisoners by the Nazis . This book proves how effective the Nazis in executing their will , not only in murdering millions of people mostly Jews but also losing human identity and emotions as they turn son against father and father against son (Stern 56

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