Holocaust: Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank Essay examples

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Hannah Silverman April 29, 2010 Language Arts, 7 Night Essay

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"... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again." - Anne Frank
“Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them very roughly in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews…If it is that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed,” wrote Anne Frank to her diary while in hiding during the Holocaust.
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like m. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it “ (Wiesl, 34.)
Both Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel