Block 17 (as described in "Night")

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Block 17 is the overcrowded, disease-ridden prisoners’ barracks in Elie Wiesel’s memoir "Night," where he and other inmates are housed while forced to work at the Buna labor camp.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf concentration camp barracks
fictional location
prisoners’ barracks
appearsIn Night
associatedWith Buna factory work
dehumanization
disease
exhaustion
forced labor
starvation
authorOfSource Elie Wiesel NERFINISHED
characterizedAs disease-ridden
filthy
overcrowded
unsanitary
countryContext Nazi-occupied Poland NERFINISHED
describedIn Night
firstPublicationOfSource 1956
genreContext Holocaust memoir
guardsLanguage German
housed Eliezer NERFINISHED
Jewish prisoners
Shlomo Wiesel NERFINISHED
inhabitedBy men
languageOfWork German
linkedTheme brutality of camp life
family separation risk
human endurance
loss of faith
oppression
survival
locatedIn Buna labor camp NERFINISHED
medium literature
narrativePerspectiveOfSource first-person
partOf Auschwitz complex NERFINISHED
symbolizes inhumane living conditions in Nazi camps
loss of dignity
suffering of Holocaust prisoners
timePeriod Holocaust NERFINISHED
World War II
usedFor housing forced laborers

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Buna hasBarracks Block 17 (as described in "Night")