Elie Wiesel

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father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. After the war, the teenaged Wiesel found asylum in France, where he learned for the first time that his two older sisters had survived the war. Wiesel mastered the French language and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, while supporting himself as a choirmaster and teacher of Hebrew. He became a professional journalist, writing for newspapers in both France and Israel.
was now into many troubles inside more than outside. His heart was hurting more than ever knowing that his father had died and mother and thinking the same for his sisters. He was truly scarred inside for life. A man with such pain could not live no more, but this man kept his life going on by keeping the ...

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