Inhumanity In Night

There are certain things in life that humans will never be able to understand. On May 8th, 1945, a truth came out that shocked billions and is unfathomable to this day. In a time span of a little over 12 years, more than 7 million innocent lives were taken in extremely brutal and inhumane ways. The world is still mystified at how something that terrible and that horrific could happen. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, explores the question of how someone could not only hold a gun to someone’s head, but pull the trigger. At the beginning of Night, Elie Wiesel delineates Moishe the Beadle’s recount of what had happened to him when all of the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet. Moishe told Elie of how, “Without passion or haste, (the Gestapo)