Introduction

In 1944 life for Elie Wiesel took a drastic turn.  Instead of studying the Talmud like he should have Elie was sent to a concentration camp and into an experience that changed his life forever.  Everyone has heard of the Holocaust, but not all know the full effect and everlasting effect it had.  There were well over 50 concentration camps built and ready by Hitler's demand during World War II.  Some Jewish people went through this entire event in a daze not believing this could happen.  Hope was the only thing that helped some people through this incidence. I have visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, it was so powerful to see. The part that stuck with me the most was that the Nazi soldiers would shave the heads of the Jewish victims and keep the hair.  Over 4,000 pounds of hair were found in camps after liberation.  I can't imagine having to go through them cutting mine knowing it was because they were going to kill me.  Elie Wiesel gives a sample though of what might have been going through these peoples’ minds.