Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, the world’s worst mass genocide, wrote about his experiences in concentration camps. He wrote the memoir Night, a New York Times Bestseller, told the world how evil the Nazi regime was. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Prize winner, continued to be a leading human rights activist for all people experiencing persecution.
Millions of Jews were deported to concentration camps where they were treated as animals. 15-year-old, Elie Wiesel was transported to Auschwitz death camp where he never saw his mother and sister ever again. At Auschwitz Elie and his father were beaten, starved, overworked, and lacked proper clothes. As a result, Elie’s father died from the exhaustion from living and working in the concentration camps. After the war, Elie Weisel moved to France to study at the University of Paris. After Elie Weisel graduated from the university, he became a journalist for a newspaper. For the next ten years after the war, he took a vow of silence for speaking of his experiences in the Holocaust. However, Weisel broke the vow by writing
…show more content…
During the 1960’s Weisel helped Jews in the Soviet Union who faced discrimination, persecution, and were denied the freedom to worship. As a result, United States President Jimmy Carter made Elie Wiesel the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. In addition, because of Wiesel’s efforts a Holocaust Remembrance Day and the United States Holocaust Memorial Muesum were created. Elie Weisel’s main goal of his life was to help anyone that was experiencing persecution and promised himself to never be a indifferent to these people. For instance, he provided for the Miskito Indians, refugees, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, and victims of war. Not only did Elie Weisel survive the Holocaust he also aided many people that faced