There are many ways the voices of the Holocaust were—and still are—spread throughout the world. There were not that many survivors left after the Holocaust, compared to how many people were in the camps. A few of these people have shared their story—through books. The books from the Holocaust survivors give people the best interpretation of the horrible pain the Jews went through. Authors use words to tell stories. Authors also use their words and stories to influence people. Sometimes the influence can be bad, such as Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Some people influence others in good ways. It may not be a huge influence, but it could still be used in a good way. The authors that wrote about their experience can make someone feel many different …show more content…
When people hear the word “Nazi,” most people think of the words: evil, murders, horrible, or something along those lines. Most Nazis were murders and evil, but were they any Nazis that were not necessarily evil? The Sunflower shows us that maybe not all Nazis were evil killing machines. In The Sunflower, Wiesenthal shares his story with a dying Nazi. The Nazi tells Wiesenthal his story, and at the end of the story the Nazi asks Wiesenthal for forgiveness. Wiesenthal recalls multiple times that he thought the dying Nazi was being truly sincere about feeling horrible. The story could make someone question the possibly of a Nazi being regretful. Night is Elie Wiesel’s story of his experience when he was taken away from his home and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wiesel tells the reader the horrible suffering he was put through by the Nazis. He tells about how he was taken away from his home with only a few items. He describes being taken away from his mother and sisters, never to see them again. Wiesel gives description after description of all the horrible things he saw and went through. He sometimes describes the situation so vividly… it feels like the reader is