Compare And Contrast Gerda And Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific event to ever happen in history. A young boy named Elie Wiesel and a young woman named Gerda Weismann were both very lucky survivors of this terrible event who both, survived to tell their dreadful experiences. Elie and Gerda both handled the Holocaust in many similar and different ways.
Elie and his family were sent a to concentration camp. There, in a camp called Auschwitz, Elie is separated from his mother and younger sister, but still remains with his father. Gerda was sent to the camps with no one but herself because she was separated from her family. All Gerda had to worry about was herself. While Elie always had to look after his father, which at times he felt as his father was a burden to

him, but immediately after having these thoughts would question himself and feel like a bad person. Both Elie and Gerda were, sadly, the only survivors of the tortures of the Nazis out of their families.
Elie was extremely religious and because of everything he had gone through and witnessed, he began questioning many things and thinking negatively all the time. Meanwhile, for Gerda she was more of a dreamer who thought positively of the future. Both handled the mistreatment of the Nazis differently. Gerda was way more positive while Ellie was much more serious and negative.
In the end, both Elie and Gerda were liberated. Elie only stayed at the camp for a year while Gerda was there for almost six years. Sadly, both Ellie and Gerda’s parents and siblings died. After the the camps, Gerda married one of the men who had liberated her. She also wrote a variety of books and by 2004 she had released nine books. As for Elie, he stayed in a French orphanage for a few years where he was reunited with his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea. Elie did not write his book until ten years after the war. He did not find the words to describe what happened to him. In 1952, Elie finally wrote about his many encounters and bad memories of these death camps.