Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian

He has also won 2012 Austrian State prize for European literature. His book Missing People (1978) is a good account of the hard experiences of his and his family after world War ll. This novel is an autobiographical discourse, which also contains biographies of many of his family member like his father, mother, brother, wife and friends. These autobiographies tell that how these people suffered just because of some politicians and socialists, who wanted to achieve their inhuman goals and pride. These survivors and their families had suffered the aftermaths for many later decades after the end of World War ll and death of Hitler.

Elie Wiesel is a Jewish boy who was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp with his family. Elie Wiesel lived through the Holocaust and went through emotional and physical changes.Elie Wiesel was separated from his mother and sisters at the concentration camp; he is with his father for the rest of his father 's shortened life. Elie Wiesel watched as his father was beaten by the kapo, Elie witnessed numerous people die throughout his time in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel and ninety nine plus people were shoved into train carts and taken various places, and were never told where they were going. Elie Wiesel watched as men threw babies into the crematorium.

The Holocaust. A short, unimaginable period, of just over twelve years, where almost 6 million Jews were murdered by the German nazis. Overall, 17 million victims were killed and thousands were forced to work in inhumane conditions and live in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a victim of the Holocaust, having been deported at the age of 12, is one of the few survivors who lived to tell their story. He has written many books and given many speeches about his experience, but they all convey a similar message, that we as a population, cannot remain silent but to stand up for the indifferences and the horrendous events of this world.

Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was 15 years old. His mother and younger sister perished there. His two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died (“Elie Wiesel, “People pg. 1).

In the story I can connect it to Anne Frank because they were both sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. Anne and Daniel also suffered tragic loss of their family members like, when Anne looses her sister Margot and Daniel losses her sister Erika. However the only difference is that Anne died while in the concentration camp and Daniel survived and lived with his love Rosa. The author Carol Matas wrote this book Daniel’s Story related to Anne Frank’s life, but with a few details changed. Do the readers think that Daniel will never forget this dramatic and horrifying

In his autobiography Night, Wiesel shares his experiences as a Jewish teenager in one of the Nazi concentration camps. Wiesel’s purpose of writing this book was to educate people about the hardships and brutality that the Jews went through during the early 1940s. This book was written to honor those who died, while also being that voice for the ones who survived. In Night, the characters and symbols serve a specific purpose to achieve the theme of loss

The Significance of Loved Ones “‘The only thing that keeps me alive,” he kept saying, “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up’” (Wiesel, 45). This is said by a Jewish man attempting to fight an onerous and exhausting fight against death. His family was his will to live. In the graphic novel Maus II, Art Spiegelman reveals what hardships his father had to go through to survive his time during the Holocaust.

In a situation where your body is surviving on a thread, your stomach is inflated due to starvation and all the strength you had before is gone, you have to rely on mental and religious strength to carry you through your hardships. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie talks about his personal experiences and hardships he faced during WWII and his life at Auschwitz as a young boy. Throughout the story Elie pushes through losing his mother and sister, lashings, seeing babies burned alive and the fear of death but also the hope for it in some situations. No amount of physical strength can help someone survive in the brutal place Auschwitz. Everywhere in the story Elie and other characters show that with mental and religious/spiritual strength, you can push through any hardship you have to face.

The Romanian officer, Peter, had a Jewish wife and a son who were taken to a concentration camp. He risked his life to help Carmelly and many others because of his realization of the atrocities that were being committed, but also because of his personal connection to the

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 . These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.