From reading the memoir of Pierre Seel, it has brought realization that the only way to survive evil is by hope and love. Pierre had endured hardships everyday and made it through by the care, hope, and love he had for his partner "Jo" who although was dead, was Pierre's pillar of strength throughout the whole situation. Love and the hope of finding love is the only way for people to ever survive a stressful and exhausting situation. During this trying time in America, people need to be able to count on others for support in order to be able to get through the possible wars and terrorist threats.

The experiences of Holocaust had changed Elie Wiesel’s life forever. After a long journey by foot and train Eli Wiesel and his father had arrived to Auschwitz. As they entered the gates to dreadful misery, there was a huge ditch of giant flames. This was the first event that changed Wiesel’s life. He could not believe that he was watching living little children, babies, being thrown into the large flames (Wiesel, 35). The children, so pure, and so innocent were being burned along with the purity and innocence of society and all of Wiesel’s hope and faith. Visualizing such disgust would make anyone wonder if they are in a dream. “Humanity would never tolerate it” he thought. Sadly this made him realize and learn how inhumane people have become. Anything was possible and humanity would no longer be concerned with anything, even these crematories which killed innocent babies (Wiesel, 35). It is sad how Wiesel now believed people were no longer humane, and his own humanity had been taken away. They were treated like rags, being pushed around, delivered, received, and thrown out when they got old ( Wiesel, 47). He was not an individual any more but was merely a starved body with the number A-7713 (Wiesel, 39). No longer like a human Wiesel was not even aware of what he was doing. As a tear fell on his hand when he went to wish his dad a Happy New Year, he was not sure if it was him crying or his father. This was just like when they were all running to Buchenwald many miles with his mind separated from his body, and feeling like he was dragging his body mechanically. Another experience that tore Eli Wiesel’s heart into little pieces was that of an old, beloved, kind man Rabbi Eliahou. For three years the rabbi and his son stuck together and helped each other out, through suffering and starvation. When Rabbi Eliahou came looking for his son, it suddenly hit Wiesel what had happened. Wiesel remembered the rabbi’s son running near him before they arrived to the new camp. The rabbi’s son had abandoned the rabbi after all this time!! They kept each other awake from death, and at the end the son ran ahead when it seemed Rabbi Eliahou would not survive (Wiesel, 87). This is what this war did. Here again Wiesel realized how cruel people could be. He saw how war can turn the two closest people in the world,

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