Elie Wiesel Theme

Elie Wiesel, only survivor from his family from the holocaust and his treasures experience in the concentration camp. He was send to the forced to go to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Even before forced to labor his nightmare began, the bodies of children and mothers being burned alive with no mercy. After time challenges became harder, questioning this God that he believed in so much, asking why he let such horrid things happen. To endue so much abuse and to see his only family go through unbearable pain, his only reason for survival is his father but only even he wants to go on. Wanting to be free form all the cruelty that Adolf Hitler has caused not only him but from all the refugees at he camp. Every day was opening their eyes to a new unknown nightmare, this reviled ones evil inner human and the struggle to have faith or believe in a benevolent God. One of the most powerful moments is when Juliek played his violin. All the people where quickly put into the barrack by the Kapos. With not much space everyone was crunched together hurting each other, Elie had difficulty breathing because of all the people in top of him. Biting way

When things got heard he first question why his god would let this happen, how cold he see this and not do anything about it. After conflict within himself asking himself if he should still believe or do what he must to survive, to eat what they were given in “The Day of Atonement” Elie ate that was his second sign of rebellion against his God. In the end his only motivation to survive was his father but when he also left him he had nothing left to have faith in. He wondered what was the point of surviving if is father ,his only family, was not their with him. In the last moment of conflict juliek’s song helped have a bit of faith in God. Even after all the horrible things that have happened he wanted a reason to still be