Elie Wiesel Reflection

First, the reader views Wiesel’s personality changes as a result of life in Auschwitz. Perhaps the most obvious change is his steadily increasing disinterest of religion. Before his internment, Wiesel demonstrates a growing interest in the religion of his parents. During the day, he studied Talmud, a legal commentary on the Torah, or the Jewish Ten Commandments. At night, he would worship at the synagogue, “to weep over the

Wiesel’s faith changes from being a strong believer in faith before the war to losing faith while during the war, he goes on to talk about him losing faith by saying “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” (Pg.63). This quote goes on to demonstrate the loss of faith by Wiesel when being tortured by the Germans with the rest of the millions of Jews. Wiesel also loses faith when he says “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes .”(Pg. 34) When Wiesel say this it implicates that his faith is being lost, and also he feels that his faith is basically being robbed from him by the German Nazis party. This fully show that he had lost faith but this shows what harshness and cruelty can do to a

To begin with, Elie Wiesel did not have a normal childhood because of the holocaust. When Elie Wiesel was only 15 years old, he and his family were captured by Nazi soldiers and sent to the infamous concentration camps. After being separated from his mother and sisters, Elie was stationed with his father at Auschwitz where they were forced into slave labor and made to work in horrible conditions (“Elie

Elie experienced many changes, as a person while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small naive child that new very little

Many thoughts went through my mind while reading about Wiesel’s final experiences as a German prisoner. I felt pity and sadness for him. His last few days as a German prisoner were his most difficult. He lost his father, he went days without food and passed days out in the freezing cold. I was also impressed on how he fought through these events. Despite his exhaustion or hunger, he never surrendered his life. He found strength that he never knew he had and showed the readers how strong humans can be when their lives depend on it. If I could meet Elie Wiesel and discuss with him about his time during the war, I would want to tell him many things. I would tell him that the time he spent at the concentration camps made him the man he is today

In the May of 1944, Wiesel is first sent to Auschwitz. This is where he, along with the other Jews, learn how people are no longer treated like human beings. They are not treated like human beings anymore because, they are forced to give up the things that mean a lot to them such as their hair, shoes, and even their lives if they are not considered strong enough to be working. Not only do they realize that, but they just can not come up with an answer to why people could be so harsh and heartless. Wiesel starts to think to himself, “ How could it be possible for them to burn people, children, and for the world to keep silent?” (Wiesel 41). How is possible that any human would want to hurt a child? How can others

At the beginning of the memoir, Wiesel is still living in his home and has no idea of the horrors that await him in the concentration camps. At this time, he is very religious and spiritual, and that’s what he devotes most of his time to. He is always wanting to learn more about his religion even though his father was (somewhat) against it. Wiesel states that “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple” (3). At the time, he couldn’t get away from his religious practices; it meant

During evaluation were the germans ask the New Jews their age and health an inmate made Wiesel and their father change their age just to stay alive. This is changing who they are. Very shortly after the arrival they soon realize the atrocities that were done at the concentration camps. When someone told Wiesel and his father that people were being burned alive Wiesel instantly lost his faith in the world and humanity itself. “I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times the world would never tolerate such crimes…”(Wiesel 33) Sadly for him all of this was true his father tried to reassure him, but seeing this nightmare was almost too much for him and lost faith in life and threatened suicide. “If that is true, then I don’t want to wait. I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in flames.”(Wiesel 33) Almost instantly after the arrival of the concentration camps a huge mood change and personality change happens to Wiesel. Wiesel who was proud of his Jewish heritage already questioned it. “For the first time, I felt an anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?”(Wiesel 33) He is already questioning his faith in god and others will eventually do the

In the book , Wiesel had to change from being a careless free kid to being an adult for his survival. He witness his people get taken from their homes, beaten death,killed, and receiving unfair treatment just because they were Jews. His experience going through that tragedy, definitely questioned his views about life. The reader can see how trauma and tragedy can shift a person's faith, views about society, and within themselves. Wiesel had to change within himself.

This secondary source excerpts two quotes from the book that I believe provide a good description of what Wiesel went through. Even though this book was published in 2006, it was originally published in 1956, about a decade after the end of World War II. This book shows the impact that Fascism has had on people such as Wiesel. Since he has had a first-hand experience in the Holocaust camps, the information provided in this book is accurate. His purpose is to inform the reader about what was happening during World War II aside from all the fighting. However, he clearly shows a deep hatred towards the

Basically Elie Wiesel started his book describing how the Jew’s life was before and after the holocaust. Elie talked about several people including himself about how their faith, personality, style had changed from the way they were treated . For example he talked about a man called Moche the Beadle like Elie said “He was a man liked to work at a Hasidic Synagogue, he was very poor and lived humbly, he was timid and did not speak much” which represents how he was happy and people accepted and loved him because of his marvelous personality which will change by time which is disappointed. Elie also described himself saying “I was twelve years old, I studied the Talmud and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of

Wiesel was only thirteen, already he was destined to hard trip in life. He would no longer recognize himself and his personality would change dramatically. At the age of thirteen he was determined and deeply observant until he was sent to concentration camp. Wesel was the one that cared for everyone, like the girl on the train that keep yelling “Fire”, and was going crazy but felt bad for her and what had happened, at the start. As the years

To the Nazis Wiesel was a good worker since he was young and strong. Through this horrible experience Wiesel grows up.

Wiesel, on the other hand, didn’t have the same opportunities teens have nowadays. He was forced to only eat soup and bread, and the soup was basically a mashed up bowl of potato peels. He was malnourished and was not properly taken care of, he was basically starved. An average piece of bread is around 80 calories and a bowl of soups has 20 calories. This gave him 100 calories in total and this is barely enough to survive. Wiesel was defiantly in a situation that was life threating and with the constant beatings and the vigorous work he had to complete on a daily level, it is surprising that he survived it. He is a perfect example of a miracle, the rest of the Jews in the death camps and him all did that something unthinkable. As a 15 year old, I don’t think I would have been able to survive the whole time in the death

In the intervening period of time, Wiesel and his family moved to Auschwitz to go to a concentration camp. Unfortunately, he and his father were separated from his mother, because men were separated from women and children. Wiesel arrived at Auschwitz in the dark, and he felt as if God have abandoned him in the darkness. Dejected, and a feeling of hopelessness. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I