Elie Wiesel: Let Us Never Forget

Early 1940s, an observant, young boy, and his caring father: the start to a story that would become known throughout the world of Eliezer Wiesel. His eye-opening story is one of millions born from 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 that of 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

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.

After facing persecution in Auschwitz, he came to America. During the whole experience, he never lost faith(Berger).He kept trusting God that he will survive. Soon after he came to America he became a teacher at the City University in New york(Elie). He worked there for a while. Soon after he became an author(Berger). He wrote many books. He is most famous for Night(Berger).

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

Elie Wiesel was a twelve year old boy who just wanted to learn about ‘The secrets of the Jewish Mysticism, but ended up getting a world of hurt instead in the upcoming years of his life.

In the start of the Holocaust, Wiesel is very oblivion of the situation, along with most other people. As he continued through the journey he was unsure of what he should do next. At this part of his life he was still faithful, and he believed everything would be fine. Once Wiesel thinks his mother and sister die, he begins to lose faith and hope. During this period Elie Wiesel began to lose most of his strength, as he struggled to continue with little water and food. Unfortunately, later in his journey, he struggled so much that he completely lost hope for all things but his father. As this feeling went through hi body, he stopped thinking that survival was so important, yet he made it so far. He then realized that he had to push to live on his full life. Sadly, Wiesel had to watch his dad die right in front of his eyes, yet that brought a thought to his mind- he is better on his own. In the end, Wiesel went from hopeful to hopeless, proving that he had changed emotions throughout his

Six million jews. Six million innocent men, women and children. Emerging from the ashes and corpses, one man had the intention of preserving this tragedy, yet at the same time preventing it. Elie Wiesel’s fulfilled his purpose of showing the heinous crimes of the Holocaust through the change of characterization of Elie before, during and after the events of Wiesel 's 1940 memoir-Night. The Holocaust is remembered as a stain on history, where a massive genocide occurred. but we must also recognize the souls and personalities that were killed and burned. Wiesel trembling hands picked up these ashes, personifying their ebony remains into a young child-Elie.

Wiesel began by describing his life as a child in the town of Sighet, Transylvania. He was devoutly religious, and, after dark, would receive lessons about the Kabbalah’s revelations and mysteries from the poorest citizen of Sighet, Moishe the Beadle. Soon, Moishe was taken away from his home town when all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet by the Hungarian police. Wiesel, along with all of the other people remaining, thought nothing of this. After many months, Moishe the Beatle returned. He had miraculously escaped the Galician Forest and came back a changed man. “The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen.” (Wiesel, 7). Moshie was only one of the many men in Night to be transformed by the horrors of the Holocaust; eventually, even

“Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.” After World War I Germany had suffered great loss. Their economy was especially weak. The German people desperately seeked for a leader that could help them. Adolf Hitler had won over the people of Germany and gained control. Many thought he would be the one to save them. Hitler slowly began turning everyone against the Jews. He said the Jews were the ones to blame for their country’s problems. Hitler began sending them to concentration camps in order to exterminate them, this was known as the Holocaust. Between five to six million Jews were killed. Elie Wiesel experienced all of these horrors right in front of his very own eyes, alongside his father.

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania was he grew up to spend his childhood studying Jewish holy books. In 1944 his family was forced to live in one of two ghettos in Sighet. On May 16th, 1944 Elie and his family were taken to Auschwitz-Birkeua concentration camp. In the book Night, Elie writes about his experiences in the Holocaust when he was just 16 years old. Eliezer's faith in God and practice of his Jewish traditions are shattered by the experiences he had Auschwitz. His journey to the Camp's becomes a journey of faith that takes him from being orthodox and traditional, to being unsure about God and the faith that he has practiced since he was born.

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.

Elie Wiesel, who was a Nobel-Prize winner who survived the Holocaust. He was born on September 30th, 1938 in Sighet Romania but sadly died July 2nd, 2016 at the age of 87. For many years he taught Judaic studies at a university and also served as a visiting scholar at Yale. Elie Wiesel became very famous for writing his books. He started to write because he wanted to write about how his experience was of the Holocaust. His father's liberal expression judaism and spiritual beliefs of his grandmother also influenced him. Loss of religious faith is what Elie based all his books on. The Holocaust made many lives stop believing the Jew religion but some continued (biography.com). Elie Wiesel influenced the society and promoted the understanding

The holocaust caused the death of millions of people. It has shaped our history and our world. Elie Wiesel’s Night tells the story of the Holocaust through his perspective. He goes through his life as a child trapped in the terrors of war and describes the life long changes of his physical, spiritual, and emotional state. During his journey he has lost his once strong belief in god and hope for his father. Tragedy can have both its vices and its virtues and they shape us. Elie Wiesel changed dramatically throughout his horrific experience.

Elie Wiesel was fifteen at the time when he was taken. When Wiesel was at the camp with his father, he experienced and saw things no human could imagine. Wiesel being at this camp caused him to grow up pretty fast. He also had to care for his elderly father, so it was harder for him to survive. Wiesel had this lingering weight, his father, always on him. In the memoir Night there’s a scene where Wiesel gets put in the hospital because he had an infected foot (74). After Wiesel went through the surgery, he had to recover for 2 weeks. Throughout those 2 weeks, Wiesel didn’t have to work and he even got to sleep in a real bed. Also the Russians were coming to liberate the camp, but only the people that were in the hospital were liberated. Wiesel had a chance to be free, but decided to escape and return to his father even though he was recovering from surgery. Elie Wiesel really showed an act of kindness, love, and affection. He sacrificed his freedom for his father. By him making that sacrifice, he lost his innocence and took responsibility for the life of his father and

Elie Wiesel experienced an unfortunate experience that changed his life, and he used it to change the lives of others. He brutally went through the holocaust, and his life was never the same. He went through so much at a young age, and lived to tell the tale.