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The book Night is an autobiography that follows the author during his involvement in the Holocaust. Him and his family initially
are sent to a ghetto and then are deported to Birkenau where him and his father are separated from Elie's mother and sister.
Then his father and him go to Auschwitz and Buna and survive a death march to Gleiwitz and are shipped to Buchenwald. Then
before the Nazis can kill the Jews the camp resistance movement attacks the guards and once the us army arrives he is liberated.
I think that this was a good book but I did not enjoy it. This and the other books we have read are pretty depressing
and they involve people dying so much.
This may sound bad but I would rather have read Julius Caesar because I have covered this subject somewhere else before
and have heard about how horrible it was for the Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis and I already felt sorry for them
and this really does nothing for me.
I mean the point of this book is to have people realize how horrible it was for them and to make sure that nothing like
this ever happens again and I already get that.
Teaching kids about his over and over again will either achieve that goal or desensitize them so they are unaffected or
less responsive to this.
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