Elie Wiesel: A Holocaust Survivor

followed ELie Wiesel on his journey during the holocaust. It was a story that pulled on your heartstrings and made your heart heavy. Elie Wiesel in Night suggests that word have a lot of control over one's feelings. In the beginning of the book all the Jewish families were being moved from ghetto to ghetto. During my first quote Elie is in the second ghetto waiting to leave with his family. The officers began to yell at all the Jewish people. Elie says, “That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today.”(19) This shows that a happy boy who thought the world was a kind place had started to hate. He started to hate because the officers were yelling rude things at them. The officers hateful words had made the Jewish

Elie Wiesel, a great person, a great character, and most of all a great survivor. Elie Wiesel or Eliezer as he refers to himself in the book Night is just an amazing person. I just cannot imagine what he went through according to Night and his experiences. One of the most vivid scenes of his book night is when he and the rest of the cap was sent on a long walk to another camp. As it says in the book they were forced to march in the thigh deep snow for days without food or water. I just have so much respect for that guy. For him not to give up everything and say i’m done it is just remarkable. After the holocaust was over Wiesel moved to New York in 1955 and became a U.S. citizen in 1963. He met Marion Rose, also a Holocaust survivor, in New

Many outsiders strive but fail to truly comprehend the haunting incident of World War II’s Holocaust. None but survivors and witnesses succeed to sense and live the timeless pain of the event which repossesses the core of human psyche. Elie Wiesel and Corrie Ten Boom are two of these survivors who, through their personal accounts, allow the reader to glimpse empathy within the soul and the heart. Elie Wiesel (1928- ), a journalist and Professor of Humanities at Boston University, is an author of 21 books. The first of his collection, entitled Night, is a terrifying account of Wiesel’s boyhood experience as a WWII Jewish prisoner of Hitler’s dominant and secretive Nazi party.

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor. He was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet to a Jewish family. His parents, Shlomo and Sarah, owned a grocery store in the village. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister, Tsiporah. When he was three years old he attended a jewish school and learned Hebrew. In 1942, the Hungarian government ruled that all jews who didn’t have citizenship would be sent to Nazi-held Poland and murdered.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

Have you ever heard about Elie Wiesel? Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. He got taken to a concentration camp at the young age of 14 with his mother, father, and his older and younger sisters. After he got freed, the Holocaust had such an impact on him that he wrote multiple books over it. Even though he went through a lot of trauma, he was still strong the whole way through and decided to share his story with the world.

Elie Wiesel—a Holocaust survivor and award-winning human rights activist—passionately gave his speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” while in the White House on April 12, 1999. The speech was part of the Millennium Lecture series, which was hosted by President Bill Clinton and his wife. Mrs. Hilary Clinton introduced Elie as well, saying: "It was more than a year ago that I asked Elie if he would be willing to participate in these Millennium Lectures...I never could have imagined that when the time finally came for him to stand in this spot and to reflect on the past century and the future to come, that we would be seeing children in Kosovo crowded into trains, separated from families, separated from their homes, robbed of their childhoods, their memories, their humanity." Indeed, the events in Kosovo created an effective environment that Wiesel could use to tell the audience about some of his experiences during the Holocaust and to communicate why humanity must fight against the evil of indifference.

Wiesel faced starvation from the little to no rations the Jewish people had of bread and soup they ate in the death camps. “We were brought some soup, one bowl of thick soup for each of us I was terribly hungry yet I refused to eat it.” (Wiesel

Wiesel and the others resided in the ghettos until the German officers transported them to Birkenau. It was here that Elie and his father were eternally torn from his mother and sisters. Elie was determined to stay with his father by any means necessary. He and his father undergo the first of many ‘selections’ in which it was decided whether they would live or die. Passing through selections became the key to their survival. The German officers judged the captives by their physique. Those who seemed physically able to perform strenuous labor would work in the concentration camp. Those who did not would be burned alive. During the first selection, Elie, and his father were advised by

The Holocaust serves as a significant reminder of the world’s history. Elie Wiesel used his experience as a Holocaust survivor to state the unnecessary horrors of World War 2. Through his writing, Wiesel acted as a testament for the Jews who died in the Holocaust and successfully conveyed the message of the increasing human indifference and lack of need for peace.

Wiesel once said, “…I swore never to be silent whenever wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim” (Wiesel par. 9). The inspiring man known as Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. He was declared chairman of “The President’s Commission on the Holocaust”. Wiesel earned the reputation of “world’s leading spokesman on the Holocaust” because of his extensive discussions about the Holocaust and the impact it had on Jews (“Elie Wiesel-Facts” par. 1). Wiesel’s early life was unfortunate; his parents and his sister died in the concentration camps that were held by the Germans. Fortunately, Wiesel survived the harsh conditions of the camps. He believed he survived because it was “nothing more than chance” instead of it being a miracle; regardless, he lived to tell his story about the Holocaust (Wiesel 7). Elie Wiesel’s efforts on portraying how bad the Holocaust was allowed him to change people’s perception by fighting against indifference and by showing the severity of his experiences.

Every single human being, at some point in time, goes through various troublesome experiences, be it a natural disaster, illness, an abusive relationship, a violent incident, or the loss of a loved one. However, some experiences are more devastating than others. Each survivor has his/her way of coping with the trauma and maintaining sanity. Elie Wiesel, one the survivors of the Holocaust, gives us some insight into dealing with extremely difficult experiences. He spent a year imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, the same camps where he lost all his family members (Wiesel 15). After his liberation, he moved to France where he learned French and studied Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology. Then, he then worked

Elie Wiesel, a famous author and a memorable survivor of the Holocaust will forever go down in history as an important activist. Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel is best known for surviving the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, and writing the internationally acclaimed memoir Night. Wiesel’s personal experiences motivated him to account for the horrors that occurred during one of history’s darkest times and thus opening the door to becoming a famous spokesman for defending human rights.

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

The early 1940s, an observant, young boy, and his caring father: the start of a story that would become known throughout the world of Eliezer Wiesel. His eye-opening story is one of millions born of the Holocaust. Elie’s identity, for which he is known by, is written out word for word his memoir, Night. Throughout his journey, Elie’s voice drifts from that of an innocent teen intrigued with the teachings of his religion to that of a soul blackened by a theoretical evil consuming the Nazis and Hitler’s Germany. Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, examines the theme of identity through the continuous motifs of losing one’s self in the face of death and fear, labeling innocent people for a single dimension of what defines a human being, and the oppression seen in the Holocaust based on the identities of those specifically targeted and persecuted.