Elie wiesel suffered a lot throughout the holocaust. Throughout the book his life changed significantly but it changed the most in the very beginning when he witnessed what the germans were doing and he wasn't able to convince the others until after the nazis had already come to their home this is what changed his emotions toward things. In the book he said on page 9 “The Jews of Budapest live in an atmosphere of fear and terror. Anti-Semitic acts take place every day, in the …show more content…
He also had to watch his father get close to dying every time they stopped moving and he was the only thing keeping him alive when he wanted to just get “1 minute of rest” as he said in the book. It was also depressing for him to have to take care of his father when he could barely move and he was just stuck in bed as he said in the book he faked being sick so he could stay with his father. When he started to eat his father's bread even though he didn’t want to it affected him a lot because he was leaving his father behind just like the other boy he saw left his father behind so he had a better chance at living. Throughout the holocaust he suffered more than he did the rest of his life. And as he says in the book on page 34 “Never shall I forget never shall I forget never shall I forget never shall I forget.” he is saying that he won’t forget what happened to him at the concentration camp, and he won’t forget what he