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Elie Wiesel’s Night

Elie Wiesel’s Night. The story of a Holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel. Raised in the village of Sighet , Hungary Jewish faith Jewish ethnicity Deported in 1944, to the Auschwitz concentration camp Rescued in 1945 from the Buchenwalk concentration camp. 1928 - ??.

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Elie Wiesel’s Night

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  1. Elie Wiesel’s Night The story of a Holocaust survivor

  2. Elie Wiesel • Raised in the village of Sighet, Hungary • Jewish faith • Jewish ethnicity • Deported in 1944, to the Auschwitz concentration camp • Rescued in 1945 from the Buchenwalkconcentration camp 1928 - ??

  3. Context of Night: The Holocaust

  4. The Beginning: 1933 • January: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (Jewish population of 556,000) • March: Concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald are opened

  5. The Nuremburg Laws of 1935 • The Nuremburg Laws: • Defined Judaism as a race • Removed Jewish citizenship • Outlawed intermarrying with “Aryan races” • Required Jews to carry identification cards

  6. The Makings of War • March 1938: German troops “peacefully” occupy Austria • November 1938: Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass

  7. World War II • September 1939: Germany invades Poland – WWII starts • November 1939: Polish Jews required to wear the yellow Star of David • June 1940: Germany occupies Paris

  8. “The Final Solution” • July 1941: “The Final Solution” begins over the next 4 years 6 million Jews will be murdered

  9. 1944 Elie Wiesel and his Family are deported to Auschwitz

  10. 1945: Death March to Buchanwald Auschwitz Buchenwalk Sighet

  11. 1945: Death March to Buchanwald Painting by Jan Hartman

  12. Allied Soldiers Liberated Elie Wiesel On April 11, 1945

  13. After His Rescue • Lived in France with his two surviving sisters • Worked as a French journalist • Would not speak about his Holocaust experiences for 10 years • Night first appeared in 1956– much longer and written in Yiddish • Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

  14. Night • Night is based on Elie Wiesel’s experience but it is not an exact account.

  15. Why? • “But if I would show the good that came of it • I must talk of things other than good.” • OR • “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” • ~Dante’s Inferno

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