Elie Wiesel's Life After The Holocaust

Throughout a lifetime, people undergo many different identities to discover their true self. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, suffered a major event that changed his identity forever. In his experience at the concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie had to fight to stay alive even during the most resilient moments. This event shaped his life and brought Elie to endure different perspectives in his time in the camps. Eliezer’s identity changed throughout the memoir from faithful, to fearful, to hopeless.

In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.

Elie Wiesel experienced 2 years of events that nothing will be able to amount to. After the deportation of his village, he survived through 4 concentration camps in a year. The camps were Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and Gleiwitz. His father died in Buchenwald in January 1945 and Wiesel had to survive through the rest of the Holocaust with no motivation. After the Holocaust, he spent a couple of years in a French orphanage.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

After ten years of silence, Elie Wiesel recounts his personal experiences of the Holocaust and retells the horrific details of the events he witnessed in his honest, eye-opening memoir Night. Taken at a young age, Elie Wiesel is transported to Auschwitz; at this concentration camp, Wiesel is separated from his mother and younger sister, whom he would never see again. During his years at the concentration camp, Wiesel and his father worked long exhausting hours every day. After a forty-two mile trip from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz in the snow and bitter cold, Elie Wiesel watches the slow death of his father by malnutrition and a harsh beating from the Nazis. Three months later American forces liberate the camp. One of the most important memoirs one can read and an inspiration, Night deserves to be read by everyone.

Elie Wiesel is an important man who survived the Holocaust, and should go down in history.

Only 37 percent of Jews survived the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jews that survived, and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to his first camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” based on his journey in the holocaust. “Night” is about Elie and how he changed emotionally through beatings, starving, suffering, and much more in the concentration camps. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book which led to him losing his faith, him having no motivation whatsoever (with the exception of his father), and him giving up on humanity as a whole.

Over the years since the Holocaust Elie has written fifty-seven books! His books are about the problems with Judaism, the Holocaust, genocide, racism, and the responsibility people should take to stop fighting and hatred. With Night being his most famous of all his works, they are all still very good. Just a few of his most famous books are Dawn, Day, Open Heart, All Rivers Run to the Sea, and The Trial of God. Dawn and Day are both part of the trilogy to Night. Open Heart is a book that Elie Wiesel wrote to reflect back on his life and if he has done enough for the Jews and the world. All Rivers Run to the Sea is about Elie Wiesel and his visuals on God through his journey has a prisoner of the Nazis. The Trial of God started off as a play but was translated into a book and is about God and why he wasn’t there for the Jews when they were suffering. Elie Wiesel writes his books about world problems and what the world can do to fix them, especially on human suffering. It has changed the views about many things for many people and are very good and important books that can help

During the Holocaust, an estimated 11 million people died, 6 million of which were Jews. When Elie Wiesel was 15 he was taken from his home and brought to a concentration camp, where he was immediately separated from his mother and sister. He was put through things that most can hardly imagine; he managed to live through all of it, but just barely. Elie was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and lived through the horrors until April 11, 1945; he died on July 2, 2016, but not before he could write more than 50 books. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book with his loss of religion, psychological changes, and failing to have the willpower to live or have faith in humanity.

His father had died only three months before (“Elie”). In the three months after his father’s death Elie lost all will to live (Moore 64). Six million Jews died in the Holocaust (Moore 118). From 1948-1951 Elie studied at the Sorbonne in France and took up journalism (“Elie”). Elie moved to New York in 1955 (“Elie”). In 1956 he published, “And the World Would Remain Silent,” in english it is known as, “Night,” (“Elie”). Most people that survived the Holocaust might seclude themselves and or go mad. Surely Elie was scarred by this but that certainly did not slow him down. He became a U.S citizen in 1963 (¨Elie¨). In 1969 Elie married an Austrian Holocaust survivor in Jerusalem (“Elie”). Night was followed by two novels, “Dawn,” and , “Day,” (“Elie”). In 1968 Elie won the Prix Medicis, which is one of Franceś highest literary awards (Moore 125). Elie has won many awards in his life including the Nobel Peace prize, which he won in 1986 (Almasy, Sanchez). He has won over 120 humanitarian and literary awards in his lifetime (Moore 125). Elie Wiesel has said, “If I survived, it must be for some reason,” (Almasy, Sanchez). He died at eighty seven years old, a square in a world of circles (Almasy,

January 30, 1933, one of the worst time periods in history began: The Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Jewish men and women were separated and forced to go to different concentration to be separated, tortured, and killed. Elie Wiesel's published story,Night, tells everyone the terrifying events that happened during the Holocaust and the reason behind it. The book also helps people learn from his perspective and realize how bad of a period it was. Due to the atrocities witnessed and experienced during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, a once deeply religious individual, loses his faith in himself, God , and mankind.

Elie Wiesel´s bestseller Night reveals Elie´s experiences as a victim of the Holocaust from 1941 to 1945. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a racial genocide where the notorious Hitler and Nazi soldiers had wanted to annihilate all the Jews. Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of the deportees imprisoned in the ¨death¨ camp. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a full-spiritual, sensitive young man to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.

The Holocaust, lasting from 1933 to 1945, was a period of time when German Nazis sent Jews, Gypsies, and others ostracized by the Nazis to concentration camps. They were sent to die, and in turn the prisoners got their identity stripped from them. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust was 15 when his town was relocated to the camp Auschwitz. For 11 months, Elie moved from one camp to the next, escaping Death with the skin of his teeth each time. After being liberated in April 1945, Elie went on to write books about his experience, and to even win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. In Elie’s book Night, he writes about his identity being stripped from himself by the SS officers working in the concentration camps.

The narrator of “Night,” Elie Wiesel, spent a majority of his time in concentration camps throughout the Holocaust. His main struggle was coping with the experiences he went through and trying to stay alive while in the concentration camps. Throughout his autobiography, Wiesel made evident that his struggles in those camps mostly revolved around death; either the fear of it or witnessing death itself. Furthermore, Elie’s hardships truly began upon arriving at Birkenau, and the memories of the countless tragedies he witnessed probably remained unforgotten until his death.

Elie Wiesel was a man that always had a way with using language to paint a picture. Whether he were writing to stay sane or to write so people remember what happened to him. He was apart of one of the most horrific events in history, the Holocaust. Throughout the book Elie witnessed traumatizing hangings and babies being scorched, as well as families being torn apart, all while he was still fifteen. Throughout the biography Night, Elie and other Jews were treated as if they were inhumane, Elie questions God, and they were all in fear of these camps and the people there, which eventually led to the dehumanization of Elie along with other Jews.