Essay On Elie Wiesel

Eliezer Wiesel was just few of the Jews who did not get killed in the concentration camps. Eliezer aka Elie was born on September 30th 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, a small town in the Carpathian Mountains which later became part of Romanian territory after the war. According to the biographical encyclopedia his father, Shlomo Wiesel, was a practicing member of the Jewish religious community and a tolerant humanist. Elie’s mother, Sarah Wiesel, was Hasidism and hope that Elie would become a rabbi. This led Elie to study the Torah and the Talmud in local yeshiva, until 1944 when Nazis invaded Hungary and rounded up the Jews including Elie and his family. In Eliezer’s book Night Moshe (Elie’s tutor) had told the Jews what the Germans were doing and he was ignored by all who he told including Shlomo, Elie’s father. Everybody continued their normal life’s until during the Passover of 1944, when German’s arrested all Jewish leaders, confiscated all valuables of the Jews, and forced all Jews to live in a restricted part of town. Later Elie and his family would be sent in cattle cars to Auschwitz to a concentration camp where life as Elie knew would be changed forever. Auswitz, a …show more content…
His is a Romanian- American writer and has written many books that are referred to around the world. His bestselling book is Night, where he describes he experiences with the Holocaust and the concentration camps firsthand. Eliezer was awarded for many of his achievements in his field of study. He was awarded “The Congressional Gold Medal” , “The International Center in New York’s Award of Excellence”, and he was founder of the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity. Elie also received the honorary Knighthood of his work in London in recognition of his work towards raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. Elie has achieve a great deal I his life time that just goes to show you that your past does not determine your