Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor

Elie Wiesel, the author and the character in the memoir Night, fights to live through the Holocaust with his father. Wiesel, a 13 year old boy from Transylvania, his father, his mother and three sisters struggle to live through the Holocaust. Together the father and son battle against starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, and the multiple of brutal beatings given by the Nazis, while the mother and three sisters are separated from them. Finally after a hard year and a half Wiesel’s father dies of dysentery in Buchenwald, another concentration camp outside of Auschwitz, just shortly before Wiesel and his father could be liberated from the camp by the Russians. Hitler, a man corrupted by power, lead the Axis against the Allies. While doing so

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.

In 1940 , Hungary annexed sighet and the wiesel’s were among the jewish families and forced to live in the ghettos.May 1944,Nazi Germany with the Hungary’s agreement, forced jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of Fifteen Wiesel’s family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million jews. Wiesel’s family was affected during the holocaust, all jews were forced to have their heads shaved and a number tattooed on their heads after all the men left the barber they were all standing around naked finding acquaintances and old friends, they are joyful at finding each other still alive. Elie Wiesel’s Night highlights the overarching issues of discrimination toward the Jews as they are forced to abandon their lives and face a death that consumer their existence, relationships and faith.

Society was robbed of their humanity and brainwashed into believing that one race was superior. During World War II, brutality became a custom and was used as a tool to instill fear in the lives of millions of Jewish people. Elie Wiesel is the author of the autobiography, Night. Night shows the holocaust through the perspective of Elie Wiesel, a young, jewish boy at the time of the holocaust. The book follows him going to Auschwitz in 1944, and facing trauma during the time of World War II, during the reign of Hitler. Elie Wiesel was affected by the holocaust and transformed not only physically, but mentally due to the suffrage that he endured at the hands of the Nazis, at a time when he felt most vulnerable.

Elie Wiesel was a devout follower of the Jewish faith. At a young age, he developed a strong desire to grow in his faith by studying and following Jewish principles. Under the instruction of his mentor, Moishe the Beadle, Elie studied the Torah and the Cabbala. He described his first account of Jewish oppression when Moishe was deported for months and returned to Sighet to inform the remaining Jews of the deportees’ fate and to warn them of what was to come. He spoke of Jews being brutally abused and infants burned alive. No one seemed to heed Moishe’s warning. Soon after, German Nazis invaded Hungary and forced Elie and his family along with several other Jewish communities into small ghettos. This was only the beginning of the numerous accounts of brutality and suffering that he would face.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel he explains the events and his personal trauma during the Holocaust. Elie explains in his memoir about how Jewish people were treated and dehumanized in different concentration camps. He writes about his personal experience of being a Jew in the 1940’s. Elie gives the readers a first hand experience of what himself, and millions of others went through. Even after experiencing trauma at such a young age Elie Wiesel still felt it was his duty to make sure the Holocaust wasn’t forgotten. He wrote over 40 books in his lifetime so that lives will never be forgotten.

During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. “ Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” the book Night revels Elie experiences during the holocaust.

In Elie Wiesel’s biography we see the dynamic changes in both Elie and his fathers’ value of life and their religion. The transformation of Elie is heart wrenching; to see him go from a trusting boy to an apprehensive man. After he was captured and sent to Auschwitz, he began to abandon his

Wiesel vowed to say nothing of the Holocaust for 10 years, but as the horrors of the Holocaust became revealed, he began his life’s work. Wiesel traveled throughout the world in places like Europe, Asia and South Africa, giving lectures and writing about his life experience. The camps had shown Wiesel pain, a kind of pain that he did not wish upon others. It was because of this that his humanitarian efforts against violence, racism, and other forms of injustice and discrimination took place.

The Holocaust was the tragic killing of six million Jews and five million Gentiles. The memoir Night is written by Elie Wiesel, a celebrated survivor of the horrifying affair. The Holocaust scarred many lives, leaving the survivors cracked versions of who they used to be. Elie’s sense of identity and his faith in God changed throughout the events of his experiences. Elie Wiesel’s experiences in Auschwitz transformed his relationship with God.

Elie Wiesel is a 14 Jewish boy living in hungary at the worst possible time for Jewish people. The time when Hitler ruled Germany, the Holocaust. In the book Night, Elie tells his story of how his family was moved from their home in Hungary, to the terrible ghettos, and then to prison camps. During this book there are many different times when its is shown how inhuman the holocaust was.

After reading Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the reader traces Elie’s life through his experiences in the Holocaust. Examination of what he sees and feels makes evident his change from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. By exploring his life before deportation, at Auschwitz and at Buna, the path of his deterioration is markedly clear.

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, on September 30, 1928. Elie Wiesel , a Jewish man who survived the long days of the death camp Auschwitz, Birkenau and became a great humanitarian from the adversities he faced. Wiesel had to overcome loss of basic rights and freedoms, harsh living conditions, and starvation.These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.

Elizer Wiesel, Elie for short, was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30th in 1928 to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. He had two older sisters and one younger sister. He was born into a very religious family, starting his religious schooling at the very young age of 3. Though this widely recognized author, journalist, and social activist is mostly known for his memoir telling of the horrors of the Holocaust it was even during his childhood he, his family, and his fellow Jewish community faced discrimination and injustices for their religious beliefs. In an interview for achievement.org he told of how twice a year on holidays such as Christmas and Easter he recalls the “anti-Semitic outbursts” and how he and the other Jewish people were afraid to go outside of fear of being beaten

Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian Elie Wiesel was born on September, 30 1928 in Sighet, in the country of Transylvania. When Elie was only 4 years old, Adolf Hitler Came into power in the German government. Hitler then concocted the Nazi party, thus becoming the beginning of World War 2 (WWII). Wiesel had to overcome Hunger, Bad living conditions, and Pain/loss. These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.