Elie Wiesel's Experience In The Holocaust

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Elie Wiesel Biographer Elie Wiesel was born in 1928, in a small village in Romania named Sighet, where was regarded as Hungry possession during 1941-1945. He grow up with 3 sister and devoted his effort into the religious studies, and he was strongly influenced by his father’s liberal expression of Judaism which aid him in the formation of the fundamental concept of Humanity. In 1940, Hungry annexed Sighet and forced Wiesel to lived in ghetto where is several jewish families on aggregate.At the ages of 15, 1944, the Nazi Germany entered Hungry with a purpose which is exterminate 600000 Jews in 6 weeks. The cruel and “bloody” Holocaust began. Wiesel and his family was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.Wiesel and his father …show more content…

He eventually started to writing for some French and Jewish publication. He was afraid of his writing level that cannot accurately convey the experience in the Holocaust, so he did not planned to wrote it. Once he interviewed the French novelist Nobel Prize winner François Mauriac, this guy was moved by Wiesel’s experience , so he motivated Wiesel to wrote the truth, the experience in the Holocaust, shout out the destructive treatment and helped the people who remained silence to convey. The Night eventually came out, and was primarily published in 1956 in Yiddish, then translated into English in 1960. After the publication of the Night, it amazed the world, the story in the book overthrow the fake truth previously spoke to the world. Wiesel became the bestseller, and has written more than 40 books after that. He became an American Citizen in 1963, and his wife also is a survivor of the Holocaust, and they resided in New York.Wiesel has received several Award in literary achievement, But he did not indifferent about the injustice thing happen in the world. In 1986, he won the Nobel Prize of Peace. He is the person who is bravery and stand out breaks the silence.He devoted his remaining lifetime engage in human right activity, and fighting for injustice, Until he died in July, 2,

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