Shlomo Venezia Family

After arriving at the concentration camp Gleiwitz there was a selection and Shlomo, Elie’s father, was chosen to die. Elie had a tantrum which caused order to disappear, and Shlomo to slip over to the side of men chosen to live. Three days later Shlomo, Elie and the other men at Gleiwitz were moved to another concentration camp (Dakers 50). The reason for being moved was another attempt to avoid the

Eliezer and Schlomo's father-son relationship is the reason Elie had hope throughout the Holocaust. After the selection at the arrival of Auschwitz., Elie and his father had to walk towards the fire pits, where babies, children, and adults are being thrown in. Elie and his father thought that this was their fate as well. Such a traumatizing event brings forth a critical quote spoken from Schlomo, "You should have gone with your mother". This in context, references to the selection, as Schlomo did not want to see his son die. Another idea used to portray this extreme idea of mental torture was a thought from Eliezer, where he wants to throw himself into the electric fence to escape the brutal death of burning in the pits. This started

I was his sole support.” (Wiesel 86). The bond between his and his father, Shlomo, is unique because although Elie loves him with all his heart, he feels as though he may be better off without his father. Despite their efforts, including Elie giving most of his food to his weak father, Shlomo eventually got too sick and reached his breaking point. Upon the death of his father, Elie says: “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears… [I was] Free at last!” (Wiesel 112). Elie will always miss his father, but he knew that something had to change if he wanted to survive. Being held captive in the concentration camps is a horrifying thing to go through and having to be responsible for others is very difficult. Unfortunately, it was one man for himself in these camps and keeping himself alive was all he could handle. Elie's father may have realized this and sacrificed himself to help his son.

He was an older man who just seemed to care for his family. When he first had arrived at the camp he was in good health but was slightly aged. When Shlomo was working one day the Blockälteste yelled at him for being too old and beat him. This shows dehumanization because Elie's father is not a machine and makes mistakes. Unfortunately this was not the only time that Shlomo was beaten. Towards the end of Mr. Wiesel's life he started to become more reliant on his son. One day Ellie had brought his father a cup of warm coffee and this was his father's reaction “The gratitude of a wounded animal” (p.106). This is showing how some Jews started to even dehumanize

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928. He was born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania. Unfortunately, he became a victim of the Jewish Holocaust, Adolf Hitler was running the country when the holocaust started. Elie was a teenager when he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. He had to overcome constant death around him. He was separated from his mom and sisters. He suffered humiliation and watched people die everyday from starvation. He had to overcome the death of all his family and everyone he knew. These adversities made him a great and generous man.

When Elie Wiesel got captured in 1944, his family was first taken to that concentration camp called Auschwitz. While him and his family was there, his mother and younger sister were killed. They then got moved to a different concentration camp called Buchenwald. While they were there, his father became very sick, and one

He was fifty years old, although when they arrived at Berkensu, reception center for Auschwitz some prisoners told him he was forty years old. Meaning he had to lie about his age, which also meant he had to act like a forty year old. Running without stopping and receiving harsh blows. ”The officer dealt him a violent blow on the head with his truncheon.”(Wiesel 106). He received that harsh blow on January 28, 1945. After that violent blow Shlomo could not handle anything els. He died on January

By the time they arrive in Auschwitz, they sacrifice so much to keep each other alive. Their relationship has grown so much that Shlomo tells his son, while they suffer out in the cold snow, "’Don't worry, son. Go to sleep. I will watch over you. ‘You [sleep] first, father.

Shlomo Wiesel is the father to Elie, Beatrice, Hilda and Tzipora Wiesel, as well as the husband to Sarah Feig. At the beginning of the memoir, he is described as a “cultured man, rather unsentimental” and he “rarely displayed his feelings, not even with his family (Wiesel 4).” In the Jewish community of Sighet, Romania, Shlomo was well respected and admired by his peers who would often times seek his help regarding “public and even private matters (Wiesel 4).” When he and his son, Elie arrive in Birkenau, it is learned that he is 50 years old, however he is told by a fellow inmate to tell the SS officers he is only 40 years old. Upon entering the camp he is instantly changed and begins to weep alongside everybody, “his body shaking,” as he

Elie's father tries to protect him, but a man can only do so much. As time progresses in the concentration, Shlomo becomes feeble. He is incapable of protecting himself or his son. They begin to develop a connection of love and support. Elie greatest concern is to not be separated from his father. Elie writes "As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had suffered so much, endured so much together." In hopes of staying together, and alive, Elie sacrifices his rations of food, his sleep, and his physical health for his father. Elie realizes that he is becoming his father's caretaker. At one point, the inhumanity of the camp caused Elie to have suicidal thoughts. However they go away when he thinks of his father. He writes "My father's presence was the only think that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support." Elie was not mistaken, without him his father would not live. Their bond continues to develop until Shlomo contracts a disease. From then on, their relationship changes prohibitively. Shlomo needs to sleep, but Elie does not enable him to do so because the algid pavement will worsen his disease. Shlomo begs for water, and Elie obeys. Elie allows himself to famish so that Shlomo can have an additional ration. Eliezer goes through hell

Friendship is a basic human need, especially for nine year old boys living their childhood. For Bruno who is lonely, bored out of his mind and could not find friends his age to play with and Shmuel a Jewish boy entrapped in a brutal concentration camp, their friendship is one of the only things that can spark a little happiness and lighten up their spirit. The boys meet in the least possible place – the periphery of Auschwitz concentration camp, where one is imprisoned and the other is the son of the Nazi commandant in charge. Although they are meant to see each other as enemies as a Jew and Nazi, there is no hatred between Bruno and Shmuel. They simply see each other as another kid to talk to out of the loneliness of Auschwitz. As the book

Rudolph Vrba was born in Czechoslovakia as Walter Rosenberg. Vrba first experienced prejudice due to his Jewish religion when he was excluded from his high school gym at age 15. On June 15, 1942 Vrba was deported to the Majdanek concentration camp. He was transferred to Auschwitz just 15 days later. Two years later, Vrba along with the help of a couple other prisoners

Elie Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis came for the 15,000 Jews of his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in May 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his mother and sister were murdered within hours, while he was put to work as a slave laborer. Eight months later, the Germans evacuated the camp and forced the survivors on a death march that ended at Buchenwald. Wiesel was one of the few still alive when the Americans arrived in April 1945.

Giralamo Savonarola was born in Ferrara in 1452. He was brought to Florence by Lorenzo after Pico della Mirandola encouraged him to bring Savonarola to the city. In Ferrara, Savonarola was a traditionalist and a moralist and renowned as a preacher and a prophet. Upon his arrival, Savonarola did not intend on reforming the city and returning it to a religious centered state. Yet, after witnessing the atrocities of Florence, he became a reformer and an outspoken enemy of the Medici family.

Shmuel, the Jewish boy, was the representation of injustice, fear and sadness. Although he was aware that the living situation in the concentration camp were not right he never wanted to talk about it probably because of his fear to the Nazis. But he also represents