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During World War II, Hitler formed many concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland. In these camps the people imprisoned, mainly of Jewish or Gypsy descent, were tortured, starved, put through horrific conditions, killed, and worked to death. One of these p ....

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.... meant death. The Jews of long ago following Abraham's example in the bible, would build a fire to offer an animal sacrafice to God. Originally Abraham was to sacrafice his son Isaac by fire. But God stopped him. I'm sure that as Elie moved forward in the line that he thought that the Nazis were using fire for something God hadn't intended. He was also angry at God for allowing them to use fire in such a horrible way. God daved Isaac, why couldn't he save them? Although Wiesel doesn't make note of it, several other Holocast survivors say that although the fire was awful due to the smell of the burning bodies, it kept them warm in the frigid co ....