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

for himself, although he was criticized by many of the other Jews who believed in "every man

old, weak, sickly, and/or infants. The Jews were separated from their loved ones who were

down and having to take care of him, and at one point when he is in search of his father thinks,"

fellow Jews began to pray and recite the Kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead, with hopes to

time in the blocks to teach him to properly march in place. He could not leave his father to fend

One of the main topics in this book is how Elie, a boy of strong religious faith, along with

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