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…and I hear mentioned the most. They are Dachau, Treblinka, and of course, Auschwitz. The doctor who was most infamous for carrying out horrible experiments was Mengele. Dachau, Treblinka, and Auschwitz were three of the six concentration camps that were…

…of Mao's "Great Leap Forward"--a forced rapid industrialization and "economic expansion". Margolin also says that an estimated 20 million people died passing through China's "hidden Gulag", the laogai, which were "work camps" not unlike the concentration camps…

…and goes back to the past in order to explain the story. This novel takes the reader on a ride inside Treblinka, a Nazi concentration camp in the Polish countryside. What makes this novel unique is its painfully precise descriptions, which generate barbaric…

…live through the concentration camps. All the lessons and experiences throughout his life contributed to his amazing writings. Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in northern Transylvania on September 30, 1928. His real name was Eliezer Wiesel…

…troops to "drive" the commandos into corners, much like hunting quail. It also further displaced Boer and African families alike and soon there was the problem of what to do with the refugees. The answer was concentration camps, a technique developed…

…name assigned by the German bureaucracy to the annihilation of the Jews. Concentration camps and extermination camps were built for the sole purpose of quick and easy disposal of human life. The Nazi executioners used every method imaginable until…

…fellow Jewish brethren, experienced in order to elude the Nazi demise. Night gives us a first hand look into the Nazi concentration camps, such as the infamous Auschwitz, which served as platforms of death for the European Jews. Elie Wiesel focuses a great…

…of the book's suffering occurs after the sun has gone down. For example, during the first day of Elie's stay at the concentration camp as is seen when Elie says, 'Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long…

…vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. The official German position on these events, which were clearly orchestrated by was that they were spontaneous outbursts. Hitler decided that such demonstrations are not to be prepared…

…suffered by Jews in Germany and Poland. The secure world of Wiesel's childhood ended abruptly with the arrival of the Nazis in Sighet in 1944. The Jewish inhabitants of the village were deported en masse to concentration camps in Poland. The 15 year-old boy…