Elie Wiesel is a writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Holocaust survivor. He was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania and died July 2, 2016 in the Upper East Side, New York City, NY. Elie Wiesel grew up with three sisters and studied religiously at a nearby Yeshiva, believed in the traditional spiritual of his grandfather and grandmother and his fathers liberal expressions of Judaism. Elie Wiesel survived the holocaust, slaughter and destruction on the Jewish people. Millions of people were killed and somehow he survived. The significance of his story and his book has swept over the world. All throughout the book Elie talks about his family, his sister, mom, and dad. Although he knew his mom and sister were most likely killed, he still kept a positive attitude and fought for them. Family kept him going throughout his troubles and tribulations, he stayed alive for his dad. In the book Elie Wiesel suggests that when people are faced with protecting their own beliefs, they abandon them. This is shown in both the Jewish and German people. The German enforcers inhumanely protect their own jobs and safety by listening to government officials, losing their beliefs. The Jewish captives lose their beliefs when they fought to survive in the concentration camps. …show more content…
The Nazis become cruel to others and even become racist against other people, seeing the Jews more as objects or animals other than humans. Some of the Germans began by helping the Jews and giving comfort. The first place we see a helpful German turn on the Jews is on page 74. One soldier had been trying to offer the prisoners comfort, making them think they will be kept safe. Once he realizes his bosses have other plans he quickly abandons his Jewish ‘’friends.’’ Many of the soldiers know their actions are bad, but they refuse to stand up for