Elie Wiesel

"Men to the left, Women to the right " the words spoken as Elie Wiesel got off the train with his family. The German guard just repeated the same eight words. What a nice way to welcome people by separating them from their families. These simple eight words were some of the last that people heard. I found it astonishing how when Elie and his Father were told by other Jewish prisoners to lie and say that there where e 18 and 40. That is the other reason that Elie survived. If he said he was 15 he would have been sent with the children to the death chambers because he was to young and weak to work. A simple white lie saved Elie life.

Having to stand in front of Dr. Mengele must have been terrifying. He is a very cruel man who committed some very gory experiments with Jews in the death camp. Having him ask questions must have been scary cause who knew why he wanted to know how old you were or if he wanted to take you with him to conduct some weird experiment. Elie seems to be a very brave and lucky man. His writing tries to shed light on what it was like arriving at Auschwitz. We will never really know what it was like to arrive at Auschwitz unless you actually did it.