The Holocaust In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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Pain in Europe had been started by one very important event. The Holocaust. Leaving scars in lives of millions of people, dead or alive, was Adolf Hitler. One man who wanted the Jews exterminated and everyone to have blonde hair and blue eyes. He wanted to take over the world. He couldn’t take over the world, but he did take over much of Europe. Many lucky people were able to survive the Holocaust, leaving tales of survival and fear of death. One of these people was Elie Wiesel, who became a famous author and won a Nobel Peace Prize. Although he became famous, some survivors didn’t live the good life because they stayed poor and hardly stayed alive. Eliezer Wiesel (later known as Elie) was born On September 30, 1928, in Sighet, …show more content…
Even after it was liberated, he still had a tattoo that read, A-7713 (Berger). His life after was altered, like expected, after the Holocaust. Although this twist of events made him famous. Writing many autobiographies about his experiences and about the Holocaust in general. One very famous book is called Night. It started selling slow but then when more and more people wanted to learn about the Holocaust it sold very fast (Ayer). He decided to write two more books to create a trequel of autobiographies called Dawn and Day (“Human”). He has gone to Buchenwald with Barack Obama and Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey (Berger). He also accepted the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement in 1985 …show more content…
One is that not everything bad in life stays bad because Elie Wiesel turned a terrible event in his life into fame. My life relates to Elie Wiesel's because we have both gone through some rough times. I have lost many relatives and my family’s health is in danger, but he had it worse. Watching his family die is the worst it could get. What anybody take from the Holocaust and this story is many people don’t go through stuff like this everyday. Though eventually they will because it happens to everybody. The main life lesson of his story is never give up. He didn’t give up on his dreams and went on to make them come true. He didn’t let the Holocaust affect his life in a bad way, but used for fame and a better