night
Without a doubt, one of the darkest episodes in the history of mankind involved the systematic extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and gays by Nazi Germany. In order to get a good sense of the horror and despair that was felt by the interned, one simply needs to read the memoirs of Elie Wiesel in his “Night”, as translated from French by Stella Rodway and copyrighted by Bantam Books in 1960. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania. His parents ran a shop and cared for him and his three siblings, Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora. Early on, the Jewish community of Sighet payed little heed to the stories of what had happened to foreign Jews that were expelled. By the time Germans had entered Sighet, it was too late for the people to escape their fates. At first, they were made to give up all of their valuable possessions and move into makeshift ghettos. Next came deportation of the entire community to the Auschwitz internment camp. The way that the people were piled into cattle wagons was only a precurser of appalling events that were to come. The horror really dawned on Elie when he realized that the large smokestacks that he saw were from crematoriums that were set up to burn the bodies of the thousands upon thousands
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
Tzipora Jewish, Rosh Hashanah, German-occupied Europe, Croats Serbs, European Jews, Italy Romania, Wiesels Night, Pious VII, Nazi Germany, , learning company inc, complete reference collection, collection 1998ed cd-rom, elie wiesel, ethnic cleansing, death camps, internment camp, collection 1998ed, 1998ed cd-rom, complete reference, 1998ed cd-rom learning, cd-rom learning company, inc 1998, cd-rom learning, reference collection,
Approximate Word count = 1134
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
 |
