Elie Wiesel was born in September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. His parents were Chlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig. When he was young, He spent most of his time in his home town and his life revolved around his family, his community and religious studies. Elie Wiesel is holocaust. This paper discusses how Elie Wiesel survived the holocaust.
When Wiesel was 15 years, his family and his community at large were destroyed by Nazis when they were forced into a Jewish ghetto and later deported to Auschwitz in 1944. While in Auschwitz, his younger sister and mother were killed by Nazis troupes and his father died before American troupes freed the camp. Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage after the liberation of the camp in April 1945 where he reunited with his elder sister.
In 1948, Wiesel began to study at the Sorbonne in Paris and was involved in journalism with a French newspaper L’arche. Wiesel was later influenced by Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac to break his silence and talk about his experience in the concentration camps which lead him to begin a life time of service to the Jewish community.
He has from then published more than thirty books, appointed to chair the President’s Commission on Holocaust, awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Medal of Liberty, Light of Truth award and earned the Nobel Peace Prize among other tittles. In 1956, he was I involved in a fateful car accident in New York and was confined in a wheel chair for one year. It was during this period that he applied for American citizenship. He is still an active within the American society as a writer and political activist.
Works Cited
Wiesel, Elie and Marion Wiesel. Night. London: Penguin Books Limited, 2012.
