As a prisoner of Auschwitz, a concentration camp during WWII, Elie Wiesel was introduced to the idea of hatred and what this evil inside people can create. The definition of hatred is the intense dislike, but Elie feels there is more to that definition. This hatred throughout the world is more like a deadly disease that will make a man go to his limits just to create hell for the other. Elie has throughout his writing, teaching and speaking shown people that the reason the Holocaust happened was because of hatred, in this case for the Jews. Elie has taught the world that hatred is inside everyone, but the good must prevail. Throughout the advocacy of Elie Wiesel he has had a profound affect on peoples perception of the Holocaust and hatred. Elie at the young age of 15 was deported by the Hungarian Gendarmerie, the German SS, and police from Sighet, Romania to his first concentration camp. In these death camps, Elie, witnessed first hand how terrible the Holocaust was. He was …show more content…
In 1979 he was appointed the Chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial located in Washington, DC. Elie also established an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Washington, DC. In that same year he gave a very inspirational speech to remember those who had fallen during the Holocaust. He focused on expanding beyond the suffering of the Jews to people suffering everywhere. In 1979 he published Messengers of God and in this novel he deals with all of the characters and their relationships with god. The main characters question god’s justice and how he can sit by and witness all of the evil. This book directly connected to his time in the concentration camps. Wiesel once stated, “To ream silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.” This quote and the book were solely made for the purpose of bringing up one of his very first questions as a teenager in Auschwitz, why did god stay