For the dead and the living we must all bear witness” -Elie Wiesel. Those are the words of a brilliant survivor of the Holocaust. He is saying that we all go through something awful, but everyone need to go through something hard to feel fulfilled. April 11, 20,000 inmates were still inside the camp. At six o’clock American tanks came to the gates to fight for the Jews’ freedom. Here’s how he did it.
Elie Wiesel is 15. He has a mother, a father, and a little sister. They were told to move into camps. Elie had no clue what he was about to face in just one night. On the bus were 30 people. Everywhere you heard mothers telling their crying children everything will be all right. They were then pushed into the camp with guns to their backs.
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Little did he know that when his mom and sister were out of eyesight they were killed in a gas shower. While Elie was holding onto his father tightly they walked right up to a fire pit. “I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people our age, that humanity would tolerate it…” (Night, 24).
Shortly after the first night they moved to Buna. This camp was more violent, and had less food. They were all losing faith in God. “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the universe, Who chose throughout us among every nation to be tortured both day and Night. (Wikipedia).
They then got moved into a pitch black train cart, dead bodies everywhere. This camp is the worst of all… Death Camp. They were stuck in a black room for 2 days with no food and water.
Later that year, Ellie’s father died. He simply asked for water, and then they beat him savagely for being too loud. Elie knew he couldn’t do anything, but hear his father yell in pain. His father was three months of freedom.”Though the Nazis tried to keep operation of camps secret, the killing made this impossible.”