Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor

Surviving the Unsurvivable “Having survived by chance, I was duty-bound to give meaning to my survival.” Eliezer Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor, political activist, and nobel peace prize recipient and he has impacted our country in numerous ways, Throughout Elie Wiesel’s life he wrote many books about The Holocaust and how it has impacted his life. Elie Wiesel has given America an inside look into The Holocaust and helped show how the past is not just the past and it could still affect people to this day. Eliezer (“Elie”) Wiesel had a heartbreaking and very troubled childhood. Elie was born on September 30th, 1928, in Sighet, which is a small town in Romania that had taken sanctuary of Jews since they were driven out of Ukraine by Nazis (UXL Biographies). He was the third of four children born to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Shlomo Wiesel was an educated man who owned a grocery store and Sarah Wiesel was a high school graduate, which was considered highly educated for a Jewish woman (UXL Biographies). This undoubtedly made Elie thirst for education; however, his studies got put on hold when Sighet’s entire population was transported to concentration camps (UXL Biographies). Where, sadly …show more content…
In 1969 he married Marion Rose, a fellow Holocaust survivor, and they had one son, Shlomo Elisha, named after his grandfather (UXL Biographies). Which shows how much his grandfather meant to Elie Wiesel. In 1976, he became a professor of humanities at Boston University, because he cares greatly for humans everywhere. In the late 1970s he was asked by President Jimmy Carter, to be the chairman for the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (UXL Biographies). In 1986, Elie won the Nobel Peace Prize (UXL Biographies) for keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive, he accepted the prize on behalf of all the