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Who Is Elie Wiesel's Father Able To Weep?
This quote reflects the death of Elie Wiesel’s father and how Elie was not able to weep because all the horrors he had confronted in the camps had deprived him of tears. The Jews in these concentration camps would lose most of their families and would then be left to take care of themselves. The concentration camps would turn many into animals, but Elie Wiesel was able to do his best to take care of his father until his father passed away. Jews who died in the middle of the night at the camps, would be taken away to the crematorium to be burned. These people would not be able to have a proper burial surrounded by loved ones, candles, and traditional prayers. Instead, they would be surrounded by other corpses and be all alone with no

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