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Over the past week we have started and completed another novel.This one titled “Night” by Elie Wiesel.The story tells the life of Eliezer Wiesel who was sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz at the age of 15 with his family. It tells the struggles and pain he endured during his years of imprisonment and the hardships of the things he has seen.He had multiple basic freedoms and rights violated everyday such as cruel treatment,freedom stripped from him in a matter of seconds, and being taken into exile. The most basic article of rights was violated article 2 which states “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the …show more content…
As soon as they arrived they were sent towards the crematorium where one of the inmates told them ‘Poor devils,you are heading towards the crematorium’. This cruel punishment was given to millions 6.3 million at that. They sacrificed anyone from newborns to elders. Article 9 says “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.” Almost every Jew in Europe was sent off into one of many concentration camps across Germany.Most were forced to leave their countries,homes,possessions,and much more. They had to sacrifice their lives to make sure they had any chance of surviving. Elie states that “The next morning,we walked toward the station,where a convoy of cattle cars were waiting.” They were all detained and everyone in his town was kicked out of their homes,and sent off to endure some of the cruelest punishments known to

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