Imagine a genocide with over 6 million Jews, as well as millions of others, being slaughtered mindlessly no better than vermin. This was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a fight for the right to live in hiding or toiling in labor camps. Within this tragedy of this event, there existed two Jewish individuals, and although one of them wasn’t fortunate enough to survive the treachery of the Nazis, they both have contributed a considerable amount to present-day’s understanding of the Holocaust. Elie Weisel and Anne Frank are both incredibly distinct, individuals, all the while sharing extremely prominent features. This so happens to be, as the two authors both have similarities and differences in their life experiences, as well emotional experience. …show more content…
First and foremost there is the unmistakable similarity that both of them were Jews present during the Holocaust, meaning that both of them went through lots of discrimination, hardships, and treachery. Another physical similarity is that they both were around 15 years old when they either were sent to concentration camps or went into hiding. This helps show that they probably had many of the same experiences before the war, but afterward, it was almost an “afterlife”. Yet the most striking similarity between the two author’s experiences is how very religious they were. In Night, Weisel talks of his religious quest, “…I had spent so many years of my life in my search for God; in fasting in order to hasten the coming of the Messiah…”(Chapter 1 Pg. 55 in Night). Anne Frank was also religious as shown in the following quote from Anne Frank’s diary, “It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again.”(pg. 622 in The Diary of a Young Girl). Both Anne Frank and Elie Weisel were both on a search for God and anticipating their way to recovery. This shows us that they both believed that the evil of the Nazis would certainly be destroyed by means of greater good and that within the two individuals dwelled the strongest