In Ellie Wiesel's interview with Oprah they talked over the tough times he spent in the concentration camp. Ellie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor. He was put in Auschwitz one of the Nazi concentration camps. When he went on Oprah and it was mostly over his life in the concentration camps. There were a few subjects that he couldn't talk about including his mother. When he got put into one of the camps he got split up from his mother and sister and that was the last time he ever saw them. Think of how hard that must have been for him, think of what it'd be like for you if you never saw a mother or a sister what was the last thing you ever said to them? Another topic that they discussed was his father. Ellie's father died in the camp after they had made it through so long together. Ellie was nursing his father back to health and he kept getting beaten and he couldn't stop them. In the book it talks about how one time his father was sleeping and people came to take him to the incinerator because they thought he was dead and they kept beating him and he opened his eye s and them they left when they realized he was still alive. In the end they talked about how when Ellie survived Oprah asked why he thought he survived and he said by mistake. He said that there were people smarter and better suited for it yet somehow he survived. Think about it being the only one in your family that survived and you come out and someone asks why you survived and you have to tell them by mistake how would that feel. Oprah brought up in the beginning that 22% of Americans don't believe that the holocaust even happened and she said it’s hard to think something like that could even happen and Ellie said that it was harder to think of a time outside of the camp a time of freedom or that they couldn't even imagine living through this and that they would survive. Think about being in a place locked up where you cant even imagine what freedom is like. In the beginning of the book it talks about how Moishe the Beadle come out of one of the camps alive and no one believed what he'd been through think of how all of this could have been avoided just by listening and believing him. Finally they covered in the end of his book how he said he looked up and saw a corpse instead of himself when he looked in the mirror. After going through everything all he saw was a corpse of himself and not what he used to be.
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