Elie Wiesel: A Survivor

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

Elie Wiesel was a Jewish American born in Romania. His principles were influenced by being raised in a heavily religious and liberal family. In the 1940s, his own country forced his family to flee to the ghettos, and not long after, Wiesel, “a young Jewish boy from a small town,” was captured by Nazis, waking up to the perilous realization of “eternal infamy”(Wiesel). In April 1945, after enduring through starvation and punishment, he was finally liberated.

Throughout the duration of the Holocaust, many Jews witnessed the worst of humanity. In concentration camps, over six million people were killed and tortured. Among the people imprisoned in these camps was Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. In his memoir Night, the many acts of dehumanization and cruelty that Wiesel witnesses ultimately leads to his loss of faith in both his god and humanity.

Elie Wiesel is currently the author of 36 books which all deal with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism, and genocide. After the Holocaust, Wiesel became involved in journalistic work for a French newspaper called “L’arche”. Francois

This picture I chose is a pile of dead bodies to represent the death to the symbol God. The reason I chose this picture is because Elie had witnessed a lot of cruel things at a young age. He had worshiped God so much and had trust and love for Him, but it was all shattered from his experiences.

Imagine yourself in a situation similar to the concentration camps during the holocaust. Would you remain strong, courageous, and wise? It’s hard to know how you would act during this circumstance, nevertheless to imagine this situation at all. However, Elie Wiesel was one to not only experience this horrible situation but survive it. Through his journey he stayed strong and courageous, even if he didn’t realize that is what he was doing at the time. In my opinion, Elie Wiesel was a resilient, compassionate, wise, and an intelligent human being. Of course, no one would have realized that they were being strong or smart at this time; they were focusing on staying alive, doing exactly what the SS men said, and wondering what was happening to their other family members. Yet, as I read Elie’s experience and watched as he returned to Auschwitz I saw him as resilient for his ability to do everything he was told to, to fight for his life while in the camp, and for being able to go back and visit the place that once caused him so much pain. Not only was he strong for being able to go back and visit but he was thoughtful. He wanted to go back to the camps to pay respects to all of the people that met their fate there and to make sure they are never forgotten. Another way he strives to keep the memory of those who lost their lives is through his books. He uses his intelligence to share his memories as well as the truth of all that happened to him and all the others.

Eliezer Wiesel suffered greatly during the Holocaust. Many people were treated terribly and they couldn’t do anything. The Holocaust lasted for many years, but for some it will remain with them for the rest of their life.

You wake up from your crowded bunk. You drink some watered down coffee. As you work, you smell the scent of burning flesh. You work hard but your stomach aches from hunger. You work some more, get very little lunch, then go back to work. You then eat dinner, get tallied that you survived another day, then go back to work. Finally, after a long day of work you go to bed to repeat this whole day tomorrow. A-7713 permanently printed on his arm as his name. Eliezer, more commonly named Elie Wiesel is a proud survivor of the Holocaust. He was taken from a ghetto as a child to go to a concentration camp named Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel was greatly influenced as a person from the concentration camp.

Elie Wiesel experienced a lot of life changes throughout the memoir “Night” that sculpted him into the man that he is today. During his childhood, before the Holocaust occurred, Elie was described as a nice, innocent, young boy, who enjoyed doing things that every young boy liked to do at that age. His life began to change when the Nazi party took over; Elie experienced things that he had never imagined before. He was separated from his family, was starved and beaten, had his personal identity ripped away through dehumanization, and had to do things that someone his age should never be forced to do. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive teenage boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional

The Holocaust was a deadly event that killed millions of Jews in Germany. Nazis would starve, hit, and most times kill them in result of hate against their religion. Elie Wiesel, one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, was just 15 when he began to witness these happening to his friends and family. When Elie became free, he won the Nobel Peace Prize and became an author. He wrote a book about his traumatic experiences while he was in the camps that tortured and abolished Jews. He left his fenced neighborhood called the Ghettos for Auschwitz where he was tortured and put to work. He marched through cold snow and shivered through long nights, trying to stay with his father. After experiencing the trauma of the Holocaust, Elie changed the relationship he had of God and his father.

The holocaust was a very horrible experience for everyone that got discriminated against, especially the jews. A jew that survived the holocaust named Elie Wiesel wrote a book named “Night” about his life and time in the concentration camps. Throughout the story, he shows many character traits. Elie shows strong determination, loyalty and very religious. He changes drastically throughout the book.

Elie Wiesel is a man who has been the victim, among millions of other Jews, in a period of time full of persecution and adversity, also known as the Holocaust. After World War two, he wrote the infamous novel Night. He is a person that many, such as myself, admire.

When Elie Wiesel and his father got separated from his sister and his mother it must have been hard knowing he'd never see them again. When he saw what was gonna happen to him and his father he lost not only his faith but his belief in his god. He thought god was save them and when he realized god wasn’t gonna save them all he gave up. When you stop believing in something you believed in your whole life because you realize they're not real its like you lose a part of yourself. When I was younger I was catholic I believed god was there watching over me all day long but then some stuff happened and I realized he didn’t and wasn’t gonna save me so it when then and there that I lost a part of myself when I stopped believing in god. So I can say

You must act quick! Go into hiding with Maria. Ensure that your father, mother, and baby sister go as well. You don’t know the horror that awaits you. If you find your current situation unsatisfactory just wait for Auschwitz. I know right now that word means nothing to you, but trust me, Auschwitz contains immense suffering for millions of Jews. If you and your family don’t go with Maria right now, your mother and little sister will die promptly after arrival of the death camp and ,your father will eventually follow. Your two older sisters will be separated from you as well if you don’t go right now. This is the last chance for your whole family's lives to be saved. Show this letter to your father to convince him that this is the best option.You

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, wrote a famous memoir called Night. Elie endured horrible beatings, malicious words and the burden of taking care of his father. Elie experienced both of his physical condition and his relationship with his father. During the Holocaust, Elie endured life threatening moments, causing him to change his relationship with his father.