Elie Wiesel Relationships

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Birds of the Same Feather Don’t Always Fly Together “When I was young, I lost everything.” This is a quote from a Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel truly did lose everything, except his father. Yes is father did die but, he never lost the bond that had grown, though not many could say the same. A boy named Meir and his father lost this bond and much more. This causes a great difference between the two relationships. The relationship of Elie and his father and Meir and his father differ because Meir and his father have lost their father/son but, they also are similar because of the situations that have experienced and the things that they have been through. Elie Wiesel was born September 30, 1928 in Transylvania. He grew up in a small Jewish …show more content…

Elie Wiesel wrote in his book Night, “ We stayed in Gleiwitz for three days. Three days without food or drink” (1256). In Gleiwitz both families were just about refused their basic rights as human beings. The Nazi soldiers were cruel to the captives. The prisoners had already endured tough and cruel treatment from the other camp they were imprisoned in now they were stuck in a new place with even worse treatment. They were forced to listen to the gunshots of the friends and family being killed. “We were given no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread” When Elie and the other prisoners were transported by the SS soldiers, they were given nothing to support themselves for the long journey to Germany. The prisoners ended up eating the snow that had fallen onto their blankets. They were forced to be separated and into kill and transport groups. On the journey there, they had to throw out the dead, sometime they knew the people who were being thrown out sometimes they didn’t but, it was still something terrible to have to do. To make matters worse, the ‘natives’ were throwing bread into the carts just to watch the captives fight for bread. “The passengers were amusing themselves by throwing coins to the “natives”... Soon nearly everywhere, pieces of bread were being dropped into the skeletons of men, fighting one another to death for a mouthful”(1259).

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