In his lifetime, Elie Wiesel has had to deal with many hardships. Wiesel is my hero because he has dedicated his life to being a great humanitarian. He teaches us to never forget our past and the horrible experience that he and millions of other individuals endured during the Holocaust.

Through his experiences in the Holocaust, Elie learns much about himself. The first thing Elie learns is that he is deeply loyal to family, especially to his father, Shlomo. On more than one occasion Elie puts Shlomo’s survival above his own.

Eliezer points to this in how in merely his first night at Birkenau, he feels that his experiences have “murdered my God and my faith forever.” As his experiences progress, Eliezer becomes consumed only with survival, “the empty stomach” being the only marker of time.

Both were developed and run by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland in 1939–1945. The Polish government has preserved the site as a research centre and in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there, including 960,000 Jews, during World War II and the Holocaust.

All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Shoah. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz, which also became the name of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.

Those deported to the camp complex were gassed, starved, worked to death and even killed in medical experiments. The vast majority were murdered in the complex of gas chambers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. Six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust – the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe’s Jewish population….

Auschwitz Birkenau

Auschwitz