Category: Elie Wiesel

Buddha, a teacher, philosopher, and spiritual leader, once said, Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the victims of the Holocaust lived with a highly spiritual life. They lived by their traditions. However, many felt as if their faith was lost after witnessing…

The Holocaust itself was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death campssix million of them Jews. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir called Night, which gives us a look on what he faced, what he went through, and what life was like…

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the story is about a 12-year-old boy named Elie who faced trials and tribulations throughout the story. Elie begins to lose his faith when he faces a lot during the Holocaust. Elie faced being separated from his mother and his sister who disappeared when they arrived at Auschwitz.…

Throughout history society has been tested with catastrophic events that inflicted suffering upon certain demographics. These past experiences show that in moments of enduring pain even good people are capable of making bad choices. In his memoir, Night (Weisel, 2006), Elie Wiesel vividly depicts how moments of intense suffering absolutely bring out the worst in…

During World War II, Nazi Germany committed the most infamous genocide in history, the Holocaust. As a result, over 6 million Jews lost their lives in the horrific conditions inside concentration camps across Nazi occupied Europe. Fortunately, many of the prisoners of these concentration camps survived to share their stories. Among these is Elie Wiesel…

Due to the barbarities that the Jewish people endured throughout the Holocaust, many abandoned their faith in God and humanity. Elie Wiesels memoir Night recounts how as a 15-year-old boy, he and the Jewish people endure the hardships of the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Romanian-born Jew, whose hometown of Sighet was controlled by the Hungarians…

In 1986, during his Nobel Prize speech, Elie Wiesel said, No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions (Nobel). Wiesel was a holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to telling his story. One of his most famous books is his memoir, Night. Wiesel starts the memoir describing…

In the spring of 2005, Elie Wiesel was interviewed and asked a series of questions, most of them predicated on why still after his experience of this traumatic history event he still opt to believe and have faith in God. One of his answers was: I am a person who has problems believing, and yet,…

A new survey by the Azrieli Foundation and Claims Conference finds, in April of 2018, an alarming 52% of millennials cannot name at least one concentration camp or ghetto, and nearly one quarter, or 22%, of millennials have not heard, or are not sure, if they have heard of the Holocaust (Azrieli). The danger of…

When a persons religion and belief are tested harshly they start to disbelieve everything. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, religion plays a big role because Elie Wiesel suffers not only because he sees the Jews murdered at eyesight, but also because he feels that his God was murdered. In the book, the Night,…