Night By Elie Wiesel Research Paper

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The Light That Elie Hoped To Set Aflame In the Dark “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference”. These are the words that promote what Elie Wiesel strived to fight for. While living the Holocaust and World War II during his childhood, he had experiences that he hoped he and the world would never see again. Thus Elie's past caused him to become who he was, and moreover become a voice of the injustice of the Jews while hoping to promote peace through all races. In fact, Elie’s childhood was what made him who was and why he fought for peace. The treachery and injustice convinced and changed him. This change made him who he was. At 15 years old, he and his family were sent to the camp Auschwitz. There his mother and one of his sisters were killed while Elie, his father, and his other two sisters survived. At the camp, Elie lost touch with his sisters and was left with his dad. Elie said “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those …show more content…

He managed for people to see the truth about injustice and how it was wrong. Because of Elie's past in the Holocaust, Elie created the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity in 1986. He hoped to promote peace among all races, no matter how different they were. Through his program, he managed to convince and show people how to create peace. World War I made his life as a holocaust awful, which made him want for people, in the future, to never experience that. Elie's life has impacted us greatly in today's society. He showed the people a new perspective to look through and managed to make them understand how the Holocaust was like. This new perspective made the people fight for indifference along with

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