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In the book , written by Elie Wiesel, a quote that made me realize the horror people went through in the Holocaust was, "For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full ....

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.... of the townspeople when they first heard of Hitler and German troops. I did not realize how much effect the book had on me until I noticed how much life has changed for Wiesel and the rest of the Jews and how unexpected this change was. The book shows the progression of an innocent twelve year old boy whose life was devoted to studying the Torah and was changed to a life of terror. The book also shows how the German forces were so harsh at breaking the spirits of the Jews. Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the beginning of the novel, but grows weaker as time goes on. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, ....