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Short Story Of The Holocaust

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“They undress you. They give you new clothes. They shave you. They divided you. My parents, my sisters, my brothers — they go to the gas chambers,” he said. Riteman was spared because he was selected for hard labor. But he lost his entire family: his five brothers, two sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. This is the true story of The Holocaust was the systematic murder of over 6,000,000 Jews. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s leader at the time, was the reason why all these innocent people were murdered, he and ultimately committed suicide on April 30th, 1945. However, his evil spirit still lies, with all those people that still live to tell the tale of the atrocities they experienced, beyond words, in his concentration camps. The way one can speak the unspeakable horrors of their experiences in the Holocaust is through repetition, symbolism, and imagery. One way someone can speak the unspeakable is through repetition. Document A states, “ A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames” (Elie). This shows how this event was so scarring to Elie, that he could not go back to a state of innocence after that incident. Also, the text states, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night 7 times folded” (Elie). The constant repetition of the phrase “Never shall I forget” speaks the unspeakable by emphasizing the fact that

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