Night By Elie Wiesel Compare And Contrast

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Brady Ravin
Mrs. Ramsey
English
January 31st, 2023
The Horrors of the Holocaust Six million, the estimated number of Jewish people that died during the holocaust. Each one of them led their own life, each one of them was a person just like anyone else, and each one of them witnessed countless horrific sights. All of these deaths and horrors were avoidable. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel is a first person account of what the experience in a concentration camp was like. He and a man by the name of Rudolf Acohen will be the focus of this essay, but they are not the only ones who suffered; millions upon millions of people suffered through the horrors of the holocaust. These two’s stories will be compared and contrasted to prove the point that, speaking out against injustice is absolutely necessary because millions of innocent lives were lost, millions of innocent people were torchered and many, likely the majority of people didn’t speak out, and did not fight back, letting the oppressors run rampant and do whatever they pleased. …show more content…

Rudolf Acohen was born June 4th, 1922 to a Jewish family of Spanish descent in Amsterdam. Elie Wiesel on the other hand was born September 30th, 1928. He was also born to a Jewish family but in Sighet, Transylvania. “Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania”. Both Elie Wiesel and Rudolf Acohen had very normal childhoods. Rudolf and his friends loved listening to classical music and Frank Sinatra. They also loved going on bike rides, one of which lasted several days. Although Elie Wiesel does not write much about his childhood before the events of the holocaust it is known that he had 3 siblings, 2 older sisters, and one younger. It is also known that he studied Kabbalah which is a part of Judaism; he had to study it without his father because his father believed him to be too young to learn

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