Sighetu Marmaţiei

One of the most defining moments of one’s life is when one discovers who they truly are inside. Growing up, the influences of friends and family are clearly marked on one’s beliefs, ideals, and moral standards, whether they want to believe it or not. The desire to fit in is what pushes many people to do things they may not be comfortable with or believe in themselves; this is alternately called peer pressure. However, even through moments of weakness and the struggle to belong, one shapes and…

Ferocious Fear Faster, the men ran, faster, are they men anymore, faster, went the running skeletons trying to survive the freezing night. Night is a heart-wrenching nonfiction story by Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who decided to share his story and that of other millions, for everyone to learn and read of. Eliezer was a young man when his entire town was taken into a dehumanizing captivity by opposing German forces, forced around the entire expanse of a European country to five…

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel encapsulates the horrors of persecution from his experiences in the Holocaust, and how such cruelty breeds men into beasts. As readers, we began to question: what differentiates us from animals? By examining the behaviors seen in the initial deportation of The Jews of Sighet, Wiesel’s witness to the killings over bread and Juliek’s last violin concerto, we are able to see how apathy and empathy defines us as ‘humans’. ‘Ignorance is bliss,’ and such is the case of…

Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor born in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, September 30, 1928. He is raised by Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel in an Orthodox Jewish community. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea and a younger Sister, Tsiporah. He was influenced by the religious believes of his grandmother, he pursued religious studies at a yeshiva at a young age. In March 1944, his family was captured and sent to a Jewish ghetto where he lived until May then they were sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi…