Town Behind The Wall
Elie Wiesel was born at 1928 in Sighet Transylvania he was 15 when he and his family went to the concentration camps His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war he studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps.In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is President
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"You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself"(Wiesel 22). Has a tormented past driven Eliezer, a survivor of the German death camps, to attempt suicide?
Second, Wiesel's book The Town Beyond The Wall influenced tolerance towards other people. The Town Behind The Wall is about A boy remembers the searches during his Prayers, remembers his pre-pogrom, Hassidic childhood in Hungary's "City of Luck," remembers his refugee's despair in a Paris of exile, remembers his one true friend. "You should never be afraid of other people, even if they are crazy beyond the pale. The one man you have to be afraid of is yourself" (Wiesel 15). This quote means that you do not know what some people could do but you know what you could do.
Last, Wiesel’s book the forgotten influenced hope on other people. An extremely moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's struggle to remember both the heroic and the shameful events of his past, and about his American-born son's need to assimilate his father's life into his own. “Keep fighting. In this kind of battle, it's essential. You're your own best ally. Keep telling yourself that memory possesses its own mysterious powers, which are stronger than imagination”( Wiesel 143). This quote means if you can't remember something you are doomed to repeat
"You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself"(Wiesel 22). Has a tormented past driven Eliezer, a survivor of the German death camps, to attempt suicide?
Second, Wiesel's book The Town Beyond The Wall influenced tolerance towards other people. The Town Behind The Wall is about A boy remembers the searches during his Prayers, remembers his pre-pogrom, Hassidic childhood in Hungary's "City of Luck," remembers his refugee's despair in a Paris of exile, remembers his one true friend. "You should never be afraid of other people, even if they are crazy beyond the pale. The one man you have to be afraid of is yourself" (Wiesel 15). This quote means that you do not know what some people could do but you know what you could do.
Last, Wiesel’s book the forgotten influenced hope on other people. An extremely moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's struggle to remember both the heroic and the shameful events of his past, and about his American-born son's need to assimilate his father's life into his own. “Keep fighting. In this kind of battle, it's essential. You're your own best ally. Keep telling yourself that memory possesses its own mysterious powers, which are stronger than imagination”( Wiesel 143). This quote means if you can't remember something you are doomed to repeat