Elie Wiesel is a writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Holocaust survivor. He was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania and died July 2, 2016 in the Upper East Side, New York City, NY. Elie Wiesel grew up with three sisters and studied religiously at a nearby Yeshiva, believed in the traditional spiritual of his grandfather and grandmother and his fathers liberal expressions of Judaism. Elie Wiesel survived the holocaust, slaughter and destruction on the Jewish people. Millions of people were killed and somehow he survived. The significance of his story and his book has swept over the world. All throughout the book Elie talks about his family, his sister, mom, and dad. Although he knew his mom and sister were most likely killed, he still kept a positive attitude and fought for them. Family kept him going throughout his troubles and tribulations, he stayed alive for his dad. In the book Elie Wiesel suggests that when people are faced with protecting their own beliefs, they abandon them. This is shown in both the Jewish and German people. The German enforcers inhumanely protect their own jobs and safety by listening to government officials, losing their beliefs. The Jewish captives lose their beliefs when they fought to survive in the concentration camps. …show more content…
The Nazis become cruel to others and even become racist against other people, seeing the Jews more as objects or animals other than humans. Some of the Germans began by helping the Jews and giving comfort. The first place we see a helpful German turn on the Jews is on page 74. One soldier had been trying to offer the prisoners comfort, making them think they will be kept safe. Once he realizes his bosses have other plans he quickly abandons his Jewish ‘’friends.’’ Many of the soldiers know their actions are bad, but they refuse to stand up for
There is a very important person named Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a very important person that was in the Holocaust. He has wrote a book called “Night” describing his time during the Holocaust in (1941-1945). Throughout the Holocaust a lot of his life has changed. Elie Wiesel has a normal life before he went into the Holocaust.
While reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, one of the things I learned about was the jews living conditions. I read about Elie living them with many other jews and it stuck out to me because how could a person live like that and stay alive? Every jew that was caught was sent to a concentration camp and had a total different way of lifestyle when being held there. Another thing that stuck out while reading the book was the SS officers. The SS officers are Hitler's protective unit.
Plot: Elie Wiesel lived with his younger sister and parents in a small town during the period of World War Two. Where they were Jewish their fear of the German reaching them grew steadily until the German tanks rolled through their streets. Where the officers were nice, that did not stop them from setting up the ghetto’s in town square: “The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion” (12). Soon Wiesel found himself on a train to Auschwitz, where he was separated from his mother and sister, forced along with his father to join the other men at their camp. To work or to be burned, Elie and his father struggled to stay alive, on their rations of bread, but keeping fit enough to survive the test the leaders put on them.
The Changed Man Elie Wiesel wrote the memoir Night about himself as the character Elie Wiesel. He along with his family and many others were forced to endure the Holocaust. Wiesel and his father were separated from him his mother and sister at the first camp. They went from camp to camp with only one thought in mind which was not to be separated from one another. Not to mention, that in the end Elie lost his family and experienced/ witnessed many horrible things that changed him.
The novel Night is a terrifying story that reveals the horrors of the Holocaust. The author Elie Wiesel,winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and a Holocaust survivor, published this award winning book in the year 1956. He wrote this novel to tell about his experiences with his father in the Nazi Germany concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944-1945. Now his word and his story has gotten to the public so now we all now know and understand the horror of the Holocaust.
Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. He lived with his parents Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel and his three sisters Tzipora, Beatrice, and Hilda. Before, Elie and his family were taken to a concentration camp, he did his religious Judaism studies at a yeshiva. In May 1994 when Elie was only 15 years old his family was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Elie and his father were sent Buna Werke, a labor camp that was apart of Auschwitz were he and his father worked in horrible conditions.
Elie Wiesel was a Jewish boy who grew up during the Second World War. According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, there was a population of 757,000 Jews in Romania in the 1930s, where Wiesel grew up. In the 1950s, after the war, there was a population of only 280,000 Jews. Wiesel was one of the lucky ones who survived the Holocaust. While he was in these concentration camps, it took a toll on his life.
Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor that endured things in his lifetime that would be unimaginable to the average person today. The Holocaust that took place in Germany was the biggest ethnic cleansing of over 6 million Jews. The violence that the Jews endured was not only physical but mental as well. Elie Wiesel wrote an autobiography about his personal experience of the day-to-day violence experienced by Jews. The horrific events of the Holocaust went from things the Jews heard about, to things the saw, to things they actually experienced.
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania which is now part of Romania. He was only 15 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis. His mother and is younger sister died, his two older sisters survived. He and his father were later moved to Buchenwald, his father died before the camp was liberated. His mother's grandfather, Reb Dodye Feig, was a very religious Jew, whose influence on Wiesel was deep, and inspired him to pursue studies in the town's College.
Elie Wiesel lived during the holocaust. He stayed in a consentration camp and lived. He wrote the book Night. Wiesel had to overcome 1.Faith , 2.Looseing his dad , and 3.Bad living conditions .
Night Night by Elie Wiesel is his own accounts of the Holocaust. Elie uses his experiences to inform others of the atrocities he saw, so that history will not allow such events to be repeated in the future. His family is separated. He and his father are sent to Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust and his accounts of Nazi death camps portray a dark time for moral values.
The German officer shouted, “There are eighty of you in the car, if anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs” (Wiesel 24). This shows that the Germans thought nothing of them. Instead the Germans compared the Jews to being like “dogs”, which showed that the Germans thought Jews were not worthy of being treated like a human. In conclusion, in World War II, the Jews were dehumanized because of their beliefs, they were treated as unworthy objects that are a burden to
Many Germans, during WWII had started to take on the ideology of Hitler – that Jewish citizens in Germany were the cause of their poverty and misfortune. Of course, many knew that this was merely a form of scapegoating, and although they disagreed with the majority of Germany’s citizens, many would not speak up for fear of isolation (Boone,
People Who Helped in Hidden Ways Topic: Germans that helped Jews during World War II Working thesis statement: Helping Jews was very dangerous in Nazi Germany during World War Two because of Hitler’s bigoted nationalism, yet numerous Germans civilians and soldiers assisted a Jew in some way during the time of war. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel’s fictitious family and friends help Jews in the same ways that real life Germans helped Jews to hide and escape during World War II. Rolling Introduction Introduction Paragraph #1 Introduction Paragraph #2 Religious intolerance and persecution of Jewish people was common in Nazi Germany; however, there were some Germans that helped Jews despite the dangers. Some brave German soldiers and
Elie Wiesel was a victim in the holocaust, and was one of the few survivors. He was sent in the concentration camp and so was all the other jews in Germany. He was sent to the camp called Auschuitz with his father, mother, and sister. Elie Wiesel was 15 years old when he got sent to the concentration camp in Auschuitz. He wrote a speech that talks about his life and the other people in the camps even the dead.