Elie Wiesel is one of the few thousand people who survived the tragedy caused by the war, the Holocaust. Wiesel was just 15 years old when his family and the rest of the Jewish population were placed into two ghettos. While reading the book “Night”, reviewing many of his speeches, and the pink timeline cards we have been studying, we learn the deep truth of what went on during the Holocaust. Elie doesn’t take that he made it through the horrible tragedy lightly. He feels the responsibility to share the story of what happened to him and others. He devoted his life to the promise of “never forget”. In the book “Night” Elie Wiesel took the painful responsibility of reliving what happened to him to make sure others knew what the people who didn’t survive endured. Wiesel explains the torture and degradation he and other Jews experienced. One of the book's most important …show more content…
He founded it in 1986 and used it to promote human rights and peace. They organize educational programs and host events such as the Elie Wiesel Ethics Essay Contest. Through this contest, he had many people engage in meaningful discussions and moral issues. Elie Wiesel also gathered Nobel Laureates and world leaders to international conferences, centering them around themes such as hope, education, justice, and peace. Through many hard conversations and topics that weren’t always agreed on, The Foundation for Humanity has been able to build connections no one thought was possible. It didn’t stop with Elie, his wife, Marion Wiesel, creating a program to prevent racism that she experienced as well as others in Israel were experiencing. The Foundation created two centers that absorbed thousands of Ethiopian-Jewish refugees and gave them support for education. They honored and appreciated millions of people in awe of the Jews who didn’t survive the horrible tragedy of the