5 Paragraph Essay On The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

They were starved, exhausted, beaten, and killed due to their ethnicity. During World War II, the Nazi party gathered Jews, stripped them of their rights and properties and forced them to live in terrible conditions. In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and less than half a year later he began using his dictatorial rights to abuse Jews. Hitler set up concentration camps and extermination camps for the Jewish, homosexuals, the homeless, and the disabled to be killed or used as slave labor. The nazis were given the power to force abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases. Adolf Hitler believed that the German empire should consist of only pure Germans and any others who did not qualify were to be murdered. Over 6 million Jews were killed during WWII, yet several hundred thousand did survive. In the midst of these several thousand, many remained silent due to their trauma but others shared their experience. Among these shared stories there are words that explain the unspeakable through the eyes of Elie Wiesel, Phil Chernofsky, and Viktor Frankl.

Elie Wiesel was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 when he was just 15 years old. Wiesel was planning to become a rabbi before he and his family
1,250 pages, 120 lines per page, 40 words per line. Phil Chernofsky repeated the word Jew in his book And Every Single One Was Someone to indicate that every Jew within the 6 million that were killed was someone important. Chernofsky used one word to state the unspeakable. Phil repeated this word to describe the genocide of the Jewish people and how it affected the world. Phil does not share his experiences or thoughts of the Holocaust, instead he used one word to bring to life the dreadful annihilation of a specific group of people. Unlike others, Chernofsky stressed the word “Jew” to explicate the unimaginable killing of 6,000,000 men, women, and