Research Paper On Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the city called Sighet in Transylvania, which is presently a part of Romania. He had three sisters, two older and one younger, and a father and mother. His two older sisters are Hilda and Beatrice, and his younger is Tzipora. Elie and his family were very religious jews. Their life was busy with their jewish studies and owning a shop that provides for their needs. Elie Wiesel was interested in different types of Judaism, especially Cabala.So, at nights he was taught by a poor man that worked in the church, Moishe the Beadle. At that time in his life, when he was experiencing life and the different religions he was 15 years old. And that was the age when his adolescence and youth was ripped from his grip and he was thrown into something much bigger than he could imagine.

Five years later, the Wiesels and other jews in the city of Sighet were segregated into a closed off subdivision called the ghettos. After being transported to different ghettos throughout towns and cities, they were all forcefully loaded into crowded cattle cars. Traveling through Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland to get to an unknown destination, in a mobbed train car, with an insufficient amount of food and space, is what the throng of people had to endure if they had any want for survival. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the throng of Jews were divided by gender. As he watched his mother and three sisters walk away, not knowing if they will ever see each other again, Elie was conflicted with the thoughts of suicide as he sees horrific scenes play out in front of