Elie Wiesel, Author of Night, Aged 12

Our English class is studying the memoir Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

I worked in a group with Yilin and Hine, we created an empathy map for Elie at this age.

Elie is aged 12 years old and is passionate about studying the Talmud. He is the third child in the family and the only boy in his family, he has three sisters. His two older sisters are called Hilda (eldest), then Bea, then Elie and the youngest Tzipora. His parents' names are Shlomo Wiesel (Father) and Sarah Feig (Mother). He and his family live in Sighet, Transylvania.  He asked his father to find him a master who could help him towards his studies of kabbalah, but his father thought that he was too young. But he found one himself - Moishe the beadle. His father hardly ever showed his emotions towards his own family.