Night by Elie Wiesel 2

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Summary Night is a powerful, brilliantly written autobiography of a concentration camp survivor. Wiesel saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews degraded and murdered. Wiesel also says that his God, to whom he was so devoted, was also "murdered" by the Nazis. In the novel, Wiesel changed from a devout Jew to a broken young man who doubted his belief in God. When Wiesel first comes to the concentration camp and sees all the walking …

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…could have prevented it. I think that because of Hitler it was inevitable, not because of Anti-Semitism by the Christians. Although many Christians did not try to intervene, mainly the Pope, Pius XII, we must remember that 5 million Christians were killed during the Holocaust too. We can only hope that Jews and Christians fully understand that both groups suffered a tragic blow and that we can only continue to live in peace in the future.