Elie Wiesel's inheritance is a knife and a spoon that his father leaves to him when he dies. His father tries to give it to him a few times when his name is called during selection, but Elie does not take until the very end. This shows that the fortunes of the Wiesel family have drastically changed since chapter 1 when the family buried their most prized possessions to keep them out of the hands of the German soldiers. This was true for many Jews at the end of WWII. Their homes had been raided and all of their possessions taken. Many Jews had nowhere to go and no money after they were liberated from the concentration camps.
