The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some have argued that the Holocaust never happened. If the Holocaust never happened then where did so many Jews disappear to?
In the autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Mr. Wiesel talks about his experiences as a young Jew being sent with his family to a German concentration camp at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II. In one story the class read from his first autobiography of three, Wiesel talks about him and his father being in the camp where they were treated like dirt and were judged. Wiesel wrote that if someone didn’t look strong enough to keep working for the Germans they were sent to the gas chambers where they would die. Elie was a young boy at the time and still in good enough shape not to be picked but his father on the other hand was not so fortunate. When Elie’s father found out he had been chosen he gave Elie his knife just in case he didn’t pass the next test. Elie talks about how miserable he felt and how the people who were in charge gave him some slack because they knew what he was going through. Later on in the evening Elie found out that his father had passed and was not going to the gas chambers. Elie gave his father back his knife.
If you were to read the autobiography for yourself you would surely understand the emotion that was in the camp. The Holocaust was real. The impact it made was real. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, those who lived tell there tales in stories as well. Most Jews moved to different places as well after the Holocaust.
