This shadow box Elie Wiesel opens up to show his past in the Holocaust. Inside it has a picture of him when he was 15; shortly before deportation. It has a twisted wire symbolizing the barbed wire. It has matches for the flames which he saw people burn in and Hebrew on the side to represent his religion. There is a Romanian flag and a picture of the city for where he is from. There are also black buttons on the inside of the box which represent bad times. While on the outside there are white for good ones. On the front it is a current picture of Elie with flowers symbolizing his spreading of peace.
Elie Wiesel once said, “I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.” This is what Elie has gone through on a daily basis since the age of fifteen. He started to question his own faith the first night at Auschwitz when he saw his sisters and mother taken away from him. This is what he had to do to survive the Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of fifteen. In January of 1945, Elie and his father were sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Elie wasn’t able to say goodbye to his mother, two older sisters, and little sister. And during all his time being concentration camps, in the back of his head he wondered if his sisters and mother survived. Elie and his father continued their lives in Buchenwald seeing people being burned in pits, leaving to go in gas chambers, and being executed. His father continued to get weak and tired. Elie had to take care of him.
When Elie woke up one morning he and a lot of other innocent people, including his dad, were taken on a death march. They were taken to another camp. One day Elie woke up without his father in sight. He had and still has no idea where he was taken, but he knew he was gone. Elie had a sense of relief because he no longer had to worry about taking care of his dad. He was then liberated by the Russians and brought to freedom.
He spread his story throughout the world and inspired many people to pay attention to genocide. After Elie was featured in plenty of newspapers, his sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, found him. Unfortunately, Elie’s Mother and little sister, Tzipora, were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. However, his two older sisters Hilda and Beatrice, or Bea, did survive and later moved to The United States and Montréal, Canada. They all reunited and cried tears of sorrow and joy at the same time. He went on to write his famous book Night along with 56 other books. He visited Jerusalem for the first time after escaping and went on the Oprah Winfrey show and revisited Auschwitz. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. Recently in 2006 he was offered the chance to be president of Israel but did not take the offer because the last thing he wanted was stress.
With all the astonishing things Wiesel has done, he now lives a quiet, peaceful life with his wife. He started organizations and does as much as possible to help society become aware of what’s wrong in this world. His main home is in the US, but he travels extensively. He has earned medals and awards all for his kindness and his awareness.
Elie Wiesel was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of fifteen. In January of 1945, Elie and his father were sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Elie wasn’t able to say goodbye to his mother, two older sisters, and little sister. And during all his time being concentration camps, in the back of his head he wondered if his sisters and mother survived. Elie and his father continued their lives in Buchenwald seeing people being burned in pits, leaving to go in gas chambers, and being executed. His father continued to get weak and tired. Elie had to take care of him.
When Elie woke up one morning he and a lot of other innocent people, including his dad, were taken on a death march. They were taken to another camp. One day Elie woke up without his father in sight. He had and still has no idea where he was taken, but he knew he was gone. Elie had a sense of relief because he no longer had to worry about taking care of his dad. He was then liberated by the Russians and brought to freedom.
He spread his story throughout the world and inspired many people to pay attention to genocide. After Elie was featured in plenty of newspapers, his sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, found him. Unfortunately, Elie’s Mother and little sister, Tzipora, were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. However, his two older sisters Hilda and Beatrice, or Bea, did survive and later moved to The United States and Montréal, Canada. They all reunited and cried tears of sorrow and joy at the same time. He went on to write his famous book Night along with 56 other books. He visited Jerusalem for the first time after escaping and went on the Oprah Winfrey show and revisited Auschwitz. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. Recently in 2006 he was offered the chance to be president of Israel but did not take the offer because the last thing he wanted was stress.
With all the astonishing things Wiesel has done, he now lives a quiet, peaceful life with his wife. He started organizations and does as much as possible to help society become aware of what’s wrong in this world. His main home is in the US, but he travels extensively. He has earned medals and awards all for his kindness and his awareness.