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Elies Wiesel and NightDo you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? oer there-thats where youre going to be taken. Thats your grave, over there. Haventyou realize it yet? You dumb bastards, dont you understand anything? Youregoing to be burned. Frizzed away. Turned into ashes.Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. It is theautobiographical accounting of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. ElieWiesel writes of their battle for survival, and with his battle with God for away to understand the wanton cruelty he witnessed each day.Elie Wiesel was born(p) in a little, quiet town called Sighet, in transylvaniawhere he had lived all of his young life. Quiet until the 1940s, when the city,and eke himself charged for ever, just as Europe, and for that matter the world.One day they expelled all the foreigners of the city, and Wiesels master in thestudy of cabbala (Jewish mysticism) of a foreigner so he was expelled too.The deportees were soon forgotten, he writes. However a few lines by and by heexplains why this is relevant, and gives the reader an idea of what was going onin the minds of the jews living where he did.He told his story (referring to the expelled Rabbi) and that of his companions.The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on Polishterritory had been taken in charge by the Gestapo. The jews had to cohere out andclimb into lorries. The lorries dove towards a forest. The jews were made to getout. They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work,the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without taste, they slaughtered their