Since Night by Elie Wiesel is technically a memoir, all of the events actually happened. Of course, Wiesel may have embellished parts perhaps, though he needn't have. The story is compelling and horrifying enough without adding anything to it. He may have instead, left out some of the more terrifying aspects of the Holocaust.
The ghettos were very real. In towns all across Europe, Jews were forced into ghettos before being transported to the camps.
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Since Night by Elie Wiesel is technically a memoir, all of the events actually happened. Of course, Wiesel may have embellished parts perhaps, though he needn't have. The story is compelling and horrifying enough without adding anything to it. He may have instead, left out some of the more terrifying aspects of the Holocaust.
The ghettos were very real. In towns all across Europe, Jews were forced into ghettos before being transported to the camps.
The trains taking the Jews and other prisoners to the concentration camp were also very real. The people were crammed onto the trains with little room, food, or water and transported, sometimes for days, across Europe to get to a camp. By the time they reached the camp, many had died
The horrible treatment of the prisoners from the Nazi guards and Kapos happened as well. Children and mothers, grandparents and other elderly folks were often immediately gassed upon arriving at Auschwitz. People were killed for looking at a Nazi in a way he did not like. The long marches in the snow killed many along the way. Prisoners who worked with the underground or tried to escape were often hanged in front of the rest of the prisoners as examples.
And finally, the liberation of the camps happened when the Allied forces won the war.
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