Why Did Elie Wiesel Survive The Holocaust

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Who is Elie Wiesel ? Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor. He struggled during the holocaust, but he managed to fight threw. He survived during this horrible time period where everyone kept silent. Many times he thought to himself that he was not going to survive the days would get worse for him. The Nazis would treat them horrible they also lived in horrible conditions. Him and the other men and children there would only get a little portion of foods. Many of them would starve and some would share between them some food they would

save. Elie Wiesel and two of his older sisters survived the holocaust as well.

To begin with, "Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the town of Sighet now part of Romania. Eliezer Wiesel led a …show more content…

"During this horrible time period the Nazi were the people in charge of these death camps"(''elie wiesel''). On May 1944 all Jews were forced to leave their home towns. They were being sent to concentration camps by the Nazi and the Germans. When Elie Wiesel was 15 him and the rest of his family were sent to theses horrible camps. He and his father had been sent to the same camp together while his other and sisters had been sent to another one the men and women could not be together. while him and his father were forced to work under horrible conditions. His father died from the beating of a German soldier. The Nazi and the Germans would separate all men by how they would see them and how they would work. They would kill the ones who could not do it anymore were too tired or were very sick. While for the baby's they would kill them. This happened during world war II. Nobody came to the rescue for them because everyone was dealing with their own thing the world kept silent." In 1944 while the world war II was ravaging much of Europe. The Nazis marched into Wiesel city, ending his idyllic life. He along, with his family and other Jewish residents of his home town were taken prisoners and placed In confinement ghettos. A few weeks later, the Wiesel family was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in pholad where his mother and one of his sisters were killed. Separated from his two other sisters …show more content…

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed many faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me for all eternity of desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things. Even if I am condemned to live as long as God him his self. NEVER'' (Berget). Ever since that day nothing was the same for Elie. Nobody could forget what had happened to all the innocent Jews. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor he was the witness of many Jews death and unjust society. Elie and 2 of his older sisters survived the holocaust. After the holocaust Wiesel made a book needed night which explained how the concentration camps were. Right after all this was over Elie spent a few years in a French orphanage and in 1848 began to study in Paris at the Sorbonne. He became involved in any things after this. He wrote 57 books. ''Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one of the longest nights in my life, seven times cursed and seven times scaled.''(elie