Elie Wiesel: Survivor Of The Holocaust

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Holocaust Essay
“I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .” - Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust was one of the worst killing masses in history and a man named Elie Wiesel was there to experience the whole thing. Unlike others Elie survived the whole thing. The holocaust was started with one man named Adolf Hitler. He made the whole county of Germany to believe that Jews, Communists, and other people who did not like the Nazis were bad even if they did nothing. So then the people of Germany thought that it was okay to kill people even if they did nothing to them. Although the people did nothing the Nazis still killed them in some of the worst ways possible.
Elie Wiesel was one of the most remembered Jew from the holocaust. The reason that he is remembered is because he survived. Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania (“Elie Wiesel”). Elie then died on July 2, 2016, from natural causes, at the age of 87 (“Elie Wiesel”). Elie had a tattoo from the camps on his arm that said A-7713 to tell the Germans who he was and where he slept (Berger). “He was the third of four children and the only son of Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel” (“Elie Wiesel Biography”). He had three sisters Tzipora, Hilda, and Bea. …show more content…

There were so okay experiences though. One good experiance is that he got to stay with his dad through the Holocaust (Moore 59). A bad thing that happened to him was about half way through the Holocaust his dad went crazy and would not stop yelling and a soldier came up to him and beat him so that he would stop yelling. When Elie woke up in the morning his dad was no longer below him (Moore 64). Another thing that happened to him that was bad is that when they were marching to another camp the only food they got was one piece of bread and had to eat the snow off of the back of the man in front of him for water (Moore

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