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Elie Wiesel's Accomplishments

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A Lucky Man Who Survived The Reign Terrible, chaotic, sad, and devastating are only a few vague words to describe the Holocaust. During Adolf Hitler’s reign millions of Jews were victims, including Elie Wiesel. Even from his early years of life, Elie lived as a Jew at the time when only those of the Aryan race were accepted, however, these prejudices never defeated his spirit. When he lived at Auschwitz at the young age of fifteen, he was suicidal. His survival was nothing short of a miracle and his suffering eventually compelled him to try and change the world. Once he opened the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity, he successfully molded his legacy and created a strong passion for promoting acceptance. After experiencing terror and …show more content…

He was balancing writing for two newspapers, one for France and one for Israel. Even though he was a journalist, Elie published his book “Night” in 1956, several years after the Holocaust. This book was written about his experience in the concentration camps. It has been published in over thirty different languages and has been sold all around the world. Elie engaged in public speaking to share his story and to honor those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. This is something Elie is so passionate about that “He has dedicated his life to ensuring that the world never forgets the Holocaust” (Meyer 1). This quote protects the fact that Elie’s mission is to not let the world forget the genocide. Six million Jews died alone in the Holocaust just for being different. This was so important to Elie just a book was not enough. Around 1986 Elie and his wife Marion created The Elie Wiesel Foundation For …show more content…

Marion is still living today, carrying on the Elie legacy and continuing to tell both her and Elie’s story. There are still traces left behind of Elie that amplify in the lives of others. His story advances on along with others from the ruins of the concentration camps to the Holocaust Museum in located in D.C. that he was a part of producing. From the words written in his books to the words he used in a variety of speeches he was inspirational. From the first “book” he wrote as a child to his biography selling all around the world he changed his perspective to help others be informed about the

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Did you know some people that survived the holocaust lived to tell their story? This is the story of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. In this story Elie tells us his story of what happened inside the camps. Elie used to go around and tell people his life story and what challenges he had to face and overcome. Overall Elie is a dynamic character because he questions his faith in God, changes the way he feels about his dad, and has emotional change.

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“For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of Liberty, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Weisel won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and soon after, Marion and Elie Weisel established the Elie Weisel Foundation for Humanity” (Elie Weisel Foundation). Elie is now eighty-seven and his bravery has been an inspiration to

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We gather today to mourn the resting of the late Chlomo Wiesel, who departed from this wicked world to soon and will be missed by his loved ones. He passed away on January 28th, 1945 in Auschwitz death camp in Buchenwald, Germany. The cause of death was deprivation of physical strength and multiple injuries due to the conditions of the camp. Which included brutal working conditions and extreme malnutrition. The ultimate people to blame for his death is the Nazis who constructed these death camps that were essentially hell on earth.

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Elie Wiesel a Holocaust Survivor In nineteen thirty-three Adolf Hilter and his Nazi army brought about the climax of antisemitism with the holocaust. Hilter claimed the Jews were the source of all their problems and the reason they lost World War one and the following economic downfall; Furthermore, Hitler believed that Germany could not be saved until the Jews were rendered powerless. The holocaust lasted from nineteen thirty-three to nineteen forty-five and millions of people were murdered. Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky few who escaped the concentration camps.

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Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel is an internationally acclaimed author, teacher, and Holocaust survivor best known for Night, a memoir about his experiences during the Holocaust. He has won numerous awards for his achievements, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Medal of Liberty, and the Nobel Prize for Peace. Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, and is currently 87 years old. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania, which is a small town in present day Romania. Having been influenced by the spiritual beliefs of his grandparents and his father’s expressions of Judaism, he pursued religious studies at a nearby yeshiva, which is a Jewish institution that focuses on the study of sacred texts.

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Elie Wiesel was very optimistic about his occurrences, and believed he survived for a reason. Wiesel have said that he survived to speak for the millions of Jewish who died during the Holocaust. Even though Wiesel faced a scary past, he uses his experience as his strength. He formed memorials for the victims, and used his name to cause awareness.   5.

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Elie Wiesel was a young, religious man. During the Holocaust (1941-1945),Elie lost many things he held close to him, including his religion. As a result, of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive young man to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. Elie was young, and religious. Elie's faith was very important to him, it was one of few things he held dear to him.

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Author Bio Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928, is married to Marion Wiesel, who he has one son with. Elie Wiesel is a professor at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, he’s also taught at the City University of New York, and was a visiting scholar at Yale. Elie Wiesel is the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. Elie Wiesel wrote Night based on his personal experience as a holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel has received a Nobel Peace Prize, a Congressional Gold Medal, a Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by George H. W. Bush, and many more awards.

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About one-third of all Jewish people in the world were murdered during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was not apart of that appalling statistic and credits luck for his survival, although his experiences were no less tragic. Elie Wiesel himself writes that he is not sure how or why he survived however, went on to accomplish many things with the chance he was given in honor of those who lost their lives. Wiesel was able to write novels, create his own foundation and receive awards during his time on Earth. Amy Ray once said,“It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.”

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Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who strongly believes that people need to share their stories about the Holocaust with others. Elie Wiesel was in concentration camps for about half of his teen years along with his father. After being the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust he resolved to make what really happened more well-known. Elie Wiesel wrote dozens of books and submitted an essay titled “A God Who Remembers” to the book This I Believe. The essay focused on Elie Wiesel’s belief that those who have survived the Holocaust should not suppress their experiences but must share them so history will not repeat itself.

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Have you ever been in a hostile situation? Well Elie Wiesel was in the Holocaust he was in one of the worst concentration camps Auschwitz. He later won a Nobel peace prize for his book night. Elie Wiesel survived a hostile environment,wrote a novel and stood up for jewish rights. Elie Wiesel was in a hostile environment and this environment is the Holocaust.

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Elie was held captive in concentration camps from 1944-1945. During his time in the concentration camps, he became grateful for what he had, overcame countless obstacles, and more importantly kept fighting until he was free. [The Holocaust is very important to learn about because it can teach you some important life lessons.] You should always be grateful for what you have, no matter what the circumstances are. This lesson can be learned when Elie says, “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more”(109).

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Elie Wiesel’s speech, “Hope, Despair and Memory,” was given not only to accept the Nobel Peace Prize but also to commemorate the lives lost during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who devoted the remaining part of his life to preventing mass genocides like the Holocaust from happening again. After the Holocaust, Wiesel became a Professor at Boston University, but most of all, he became a humanitarian. In his lifetime, he wrote a total of about 40 books. His most popular is his memoir, “Night,” in which he wrote about his experiences during the Holocaust and his faith in God.

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Elie Wiesel once said, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.” If you have ever read or even studied Elie Wiesel, you know that he isn't lying. Elie Wiesel was never silent about the suffering of Jews in concentration camps, he wrote many books, novels, and short stories about his experiences while he was in the concentration camps. His unfortunate childhood in the camps led to his notable and successful career as an author. No one can truly understand what it was like to experience the holocaust like Elie Wiesel.

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How Elie Wiesel survived. During the holocaust Elie Wiesel won the Nobel prize for speaking out against violence and racism in the world especially in Germany.(“Weisel, Elie”) Elie was born in Romania and was Jewish. He was also a professor who spoke about his life as a Jew during the Holocaust.

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