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"Study became a true adventure for me."

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“There was something terrifying and fascinating about reading ancient texts.”

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"Sometimes my father would take my hand to protect me, as we passed the nearby police station or the central prison on the main square. I liked it when he did that, and I like to remember it now. I felt reassured, content. Bound to me, he belonged to me. We formed a bloc. . . ."

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“I  was with Adam at the beginning barely awakened to a world streaming with light; with Moses in Sinai under a flaming sky.”

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"I should share a Bible story or, later, an insight of the Midrash"

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ritual. I should share a Bible story or, later, an insight
of the Midrash

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Sighet was a community with a significant population of observant Jews, like Wiesel’s family.

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"sometimes my father would take my hand to protect me... I felt reassured, content."

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“Study became a true adventure for me”

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There was something terrifying and fascinating about reading ancient texts,
something that filled me with awe.

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Without moving I could ramble through worlds

visible and invisible. I was in two places at once, a thousand places at once.

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When I read the first word aloud—Bereshit, “in the beginning”—I felt transported
into an enchanted universe.

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"I should share a Bible story or, later, an insight of the Midrash"

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"an intense joy gripped me when I came to understand the first verse."

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"There was something terrifying and fascinating about reading ancient texts.."

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“I should share a Bible story or, later, an insight of the Midrash.”

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“I cried because... because something inside me felt the need to cry” (Wiesel 4).

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"Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?" (Wiesel 4).

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"as for me, my place was in the house of study, or so they said."

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"By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." (Wiesel 3)

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"Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?

(Wiesel 4)

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"One day i asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in the studies of Kabbalah." (Wiesel 4)

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“Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breath?”

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"I succeeded on my own in finding a master for myself in the person of Moishe the Beadle." (Wiesel 4)

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"I succeeded on my own in finding a master for myself in the person of Moshie the Beadle. He watched me one day as I prayed at dusk."(pg 4)

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"Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?"

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By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. " (Wiesel 3)

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“By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the Synagogue to weep over the destruction. of the Temple.” (Wiesel 3).

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"I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah." (Wiesel 4)

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One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah. "You are too young for that...” (Wiesel 4)

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"There was something terrifying and fascinating about reading ancient texts."

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"There were four of us children. Hilda, the eldest; then Bea; I was the third and the only son; Tzipora was the youngest" (Wiesel 4).

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"And I walked on with my father, with the men. I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever" (Wiesel 29).

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"My father has just been struck, in front of me and I had not even blinked." (Wiesel 39)

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"Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live." 

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"Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live." 

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Elie used to love his family and everything he had. All of a sudden he had nothing which cause him to not want to live anymore.

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"As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice."

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"... needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name." (Wiesel 42)

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"As for me, my place was in the house of study, or so they say." (wiesel 4)

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"My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked” (Wiesel 39).

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"Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes."

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"Babies!Yes, I did see this with my own eyes...children thrown into the flames." (Wiesel 32)

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"You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney.
To the crematorium. Work or crematorium—the choice is yours."

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“Never shall I forgot those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned soul to ashes."

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“Never shall I forgot those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned soul to ashes."

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His faith and religion were so crucial to him, when he arrived in the camp and saw the horrors of the Nazis, he quickly lost faith and hope in both God and the world.

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“As we ran, they threw clothes at us .In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men. Had the situation not be so tragic, we might have laughed.” (Wiesel 36 & 37).”

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“As we ran, they threw clothes at us .In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men. Had the situation not be so tragic, we might have laughed.” (Wiesel 36 & 37).”

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Many different parts of Elie’s identity have been affected sinceAuschwitz, however when they took away their clothes and made everyone wear different clothes, it took away any sense of personality.

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" Belt and shoes in hand...Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies. "

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Elie was trying to convince the guard that he was actually 15, although the guard simply said he was 18. He claimed Elie was 18 so that Elie could be working in the camps.

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"I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine" (Wiesel 85).

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"I was transferred to a hospital and spent two weeks between life and death" (Wiesel 115)

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"our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions" (Wiesel 115).

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¨I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother.¨ (Wiesel 113)

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“The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (Wiesel 115)

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"I spent all my days in total idleness. With only one desire:to eat. I no longer thought of my father or my mother. " page 113)"

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".... A corpse was comtemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me." (pg 115).

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"One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto"(Wiesel 115).

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“From the depths of the mirror a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115)

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“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.” (Wiesel 115)

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"I was transferred to the children's block where there was six hundred of us." (Wiesel 113)