Six million people perished in the flames, mass shootings, and gas chambers of concentration camps during the Holocaust. It began when the Nazi Party implemented a “Final Solution” aimed at eradicating the inferior Jewish race from Germany and the world (“Holocaust”). A person cannot look at this event and see nothing except the dark, evil side of human nature. However, if someone looks at the Holocaust from a survivor's perspective, they can see the good side of human nature, especially if someone looks at it from Elie Wiesel's perspective. Elie Wiesel and his family were Romanian Jews who were unfortunately drawn into the horrors of the Holocaust. Elie managed to escape the Holocaust by using survival tools, including love of family and impassiveness. He did not allow himself to be defined by being a victim of the Holocaust, so Elie became an inspiring figure who represented and spoke on behalf of all those who constantly suffer because of the oppressive aspects of society. No one could have predicted such an outcome as that of Elie Wiesel's life in the face of a catastrophe like the Holocaust. The causes and atrocities of an event like the Holocaust reinforce the existence of the dark side of human nature. Before the Holocaust, certain events foreshadowed danger for the Jewish community. For example, Germany suffered greatly after the defeat in the First World War. After the end of the war and the collapse of stock markets in the late twenties, many countries found themselves in economic and political ruin, particularly Germany. Some Germans blamed the Jewish population for the loss of the country because they were not loyal to Germany. Hitler represented the Nazi Party and became Chancellor of Germany by advocating this popular belief ("Adolf H...... middle of paper ......Michael Berenbaum. "Camps". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 4. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 383-390. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 1335-1348. World History in Context, March 16, 2014. “The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.” The World War II Reference Library » Ed Barbara C. Bigelow, et al. 157-179. World History in Context. March 1, 2014. Wiesel, Elie Night, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux., 2006..