Elie Wiesel was a Jewish boy who grew up during the Second World War. According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, there was a population of 757,000 Jews in Romania in the 1930s, where Wiesel grew up. In the 1950s, after the war, there was a population of only 280,000 Jews. Wiesel was one of the lucky ones who survived the Holocaust. While he was in these concentration camps, it took a toll on his life. When Wiesel is freed, his personality changes, his physical appearance changes, and he changes in his faith. Wiesel has a very observant and clever personality at the age of thirteen, before they were taken from their home. Wiesel would view the world differently than a normal thirteen year old. Everyone views Moishe the Beadle as a