Children during the Holocaust were prime targets that Hitler took advantage of and were killed just because they were Jewish. Unlike adults Children had very little chance of coming out of the war safe and unharmed. Children were ripped from their mother’s arms screaming and were thrown into the gas champers or were burnt to death. Just so that these children would not grow up and reproduce Jewish offspring, Hitler wanted each and every Jew dead. If children were old enough to work they were put into a camp with hard labor. Some could not survive this because they were starved and weak. Each piece of literature follows children during the holocaust a different way but nothing chances between their stories, each are scary and tragic in their own way.
Eli Wiesel was only thirteen years old when he arrived in the concentration camp; this was also the last time that Eli would see his mother and sisters again. Boys went to the left and the girls went to the left; Eli and his father were sent to the left and were then approached by another inmate who asked for their ages. This inmate was actually looking out for them since boys too young or men too old, were sent straight to get burned to death. When both Eli said that he was only thirteen the inmate yelled; “No! You’re eighteen.” (Night 30) Then he went to tell his father that he was not fifty but actually forty. These actually saved them both and only put them to a working camp. Eli and his father made it through hard labor and food rations that were so small that they ended up starving until the end. Only one would come out of the war alive just because Eli had the faith to go on. The hard part for Eli was leaving his father in the snow and letting him die, just because he did not have to faith to move on even when the war was so close to being over. When Eli was released he had no more family and had to make a life of his own, trying to erase the bad memories that the war gave to him.
Art Spiegelman...