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Eliezer Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. Wiesel is one of the single most important people in the history
of the holocaust. Why? This is because he was there. He saw it, was a part of it, and was forced to live it. In 1943, Elie
was fifteen years old, living a normal life up until the event, where he and his family (of a mother, father, and 3 sisters)
were deported by the Gestapo to Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the first concentration camp where Wiesel was imprisoned.
The effect of such a terror was obviously was anyone would assume would be difficult
to talk about, but in an interview by The Academy of Achievement
Wiesel was quoted as saying:
"Of
course it had an overwhelming affect. After the war -- I was 15 when I entered the camp, I was 16 when I left it and all of
a sudden you become an orphan and you have no one. I had a little sister and I knew, with my mother the first night, that
they were swept away by fire. My older sister I discovered by accident after the war in Paris, where I was in an orphanage.
But to be an orphan -- you can become an orphan at 50 and you are still an orphan. Very often I think of my father and my
mother. At any important moment in my life, they are there thinking, "What an injustice."
In my opinion this event is unbelieveable. Just an example such as the picture above shows how real the holocaust was.
Also how this effected and is still effecting our world. The holocaust museums show such things as hair, suit cases, eye glasses,
etc.. Incrediable how such a terror could happen in this world. This picture below is just one of many. Its real. The survivors,
such as Wiesel should be appreciated at their courage to be able to strong enough as a person to share their story with the
world.
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