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Elie Wiesel tells the true story of his horrific experiences and observations during his time as a Jew in concentration camps. He was only a teen when he and his entire family were sent to the camps. He and his father and others in the camps were starved, beaten, forced to work, forced to make a death march to a second camp, and humiliated by those who ran the camps. He watched as his father was beaten and did not intervene, and he found the next morning that his father had died from the beating
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A seminal text in Holocaust narrative. Wiesel writes to contribute to our collective memory as a humanity, and like it is his duty to bear witness as a survivor, it is our duty to listen. Supplement this text with other materials and talks/interviews with Wiesel and you will feel inspired and transformed. The anguish of this teen boy who has to watch his entire family perish at the hands of anti-Semitism is inescapable. Everytime I pick up a Holocaust text or read about the various genocides in
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