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"Study became a true adventure for me."

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"She would give me fresh
buns from the oven and sit and watch fondly, her hands folded, happy and at peace"

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"When I read the first word aloud—Bereshit, “in the beginning”—I felt transported
into an enchanted universe. An intense joy gripped me when I came to understand the first verse".

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

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

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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.”

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"Friday was our special time. I would stop and see Grandma Nissel, on my way home from heder."

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"an intense joy gripped me when I became interested in the first verse."

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the ritual bath we would walk to services, dressed for the occasion.

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“I washed and recited the appropriate prayer”

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"She would give me fresh buns from the oven and sit and watch fondly, her hands folded, happy at peace, a glimmer in her blue gray eyes..."

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" I cried because... because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew"(Wiesel 4).

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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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"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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"He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain. I succeeded on my own in finding a master for myself..."(Wiesel 4).

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page 3 "I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple".  Elie Wiesel

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"I cried because... because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew" (Wiesel 4)

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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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"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 cried because... because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew. " ( 4)

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"You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world fraught with peril” (Wiesel 3).

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

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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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Ellie used to be very religious but he lost faith in God (Gabby, Ava, and Sophia)

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Ellie used to be very religious but he lost faith in God (Gabby, Ava, and Sophia)

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

Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.

Never” (Wiesel 34).

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Witnessing the cremation of Children (Heather + Courtney) 

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Witnessing the cremation of Children (Heather + Courtney) 

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"Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky" (Wiesel 34.)

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Elie was now not known as Elie Wiesel he was now A-7713. So now his identity is now not a thing and he is just a Jew. "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name"(Wiesel 42).

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"Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever."

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Elie used to be very religious but lost his faith in god (ava+sophia+gabby)

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Elie used to be very religious but lost his faith in god (ava+sophia+gabby)

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

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

Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.”(Wiesel 34)

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"Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and turned my dreams to ashes"(Wiesel 34).

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

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"Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. Thats all we thought about no thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread." (Wiesel 115)

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"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.
The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me"(Wiesel 115).

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“our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. that’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only bread.” (Wiesel 115)

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“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me“

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Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for 6 days except for a few stalks of grass and some potato peels found on the grounds of the kitchens"( Wiesel 114-115).

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