Elie Wiesel's Influence On Society

Eliezer Wiesel grew up in Romania. His parents were Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah Feig. Elie had three sisters, Hilda, Tzipora, and Beatrice. He was born on September 30, 1928 and died on July 2, 2016. In 1944 Elie and his family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Elie lost both his parents in the Holocaust, but he survived (“The Elie Wiesel Foundation”). He now writes about his experiences. After the Holocaust and many years of school, he was sent to Paris so he could study at the Sorbonne. He became a journalist for a French newspaper. At first he couldn't write about his experiences, but as time went on he became more comfortable with the situation and wrote about the topic. He wrote many books about his experiences and
In 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union. He was sent to report on the Jews that were trapped behind the iron curtain, and explains what he experiences (“Jewish Book Council”). A quote pulled from his book is “As a warrior who hoped to lead his people to independence by the sword, Chmielnitzki failed. But as a murderer of Jews he was successful”(Wiesel and Kozodoy 29). Elie was saying that Chmielnitzki was a warrior that tried to lead his people to be more independent and successful. He ended up failing and wasn't able to do so, but he didn't fail at murdering the Jewish citizens. He murdered many Jews and got what he wanted by doing that. Elie’s goal was to inform the public about every experience he has been through throughout his lifetime. This was an important part of his life and he felt the need to write it so, he could show the world the truth about what happened at this time. Elie impacted society when he wrote this book. It showed people that weren't alive or didn't know anything about this topic what
After the Arab-Israeli war, or the Six-Day War, Elie Wiesel went to Israel. When he arrived at the Western Wall he came in contact with beggars that make him revisit his past experiences with the Holocaust, he wrote about his past experiences and how it always comes back to Jerusalem (“CORE Scholar”). An important quote from A Beggar in Jerusalem is “Death itself has no power over the beginning”(Beggar 1). The quote is explaining how no matter who dies and how many people die it's not going to change what has happened in the past. So no matter how many deaths the past will always stay the same. Elie wrote about the wars he experienced and what happened in them. He made people aware of things that happened in the war and things that happened