Starvation

Starvation Starvation "Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other, biting each other. Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them, sharpening their teeth and nails." (Weisel, 95). To many this sounds as if it were a scene being depicted from a great battle of war. But to those who have read, Night, by Elie Weisel, they would know that it is a scene from the book. The men being described in this horrifying scene are prisoners of Hitler's Holocaust. Starved and on the brink of death these men fight for the only thing that can keep them alive, food. Starvation was a major cause of the Jewish community becoming "wild beasts of prey" while in the concentration camps. The Jewish community had to live with the food they were given, the torturing starvation that the Nazi's put them through, and their despair while being held in the concentration camps. The Jews in the concentration camps went without food for day's sometimes weeks. When they were feed, they were given small rations of soup, old pieces of bread, and occasionally coffee. An average American would not concentration, camps, food, elie, weisel, starvation, each, being, soup, while, father, despair, cruelty, through, jews, given, wild, thing, scene, ration, prey, men, man, jewish, held, give, camp, bread, beasts, you're, witnessed, touch, time, thought, themselves, terrible