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Night

Night . By Elie Wiesel. Driving Questions. Why is it important to be educated about genocides of the 20 th century? Why is it important that we inform the public of the genocides of the 20th century in an interesting, informative, and compelling way? . Elie Wiesel.

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Night

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  1. Night By Elie Wiesel

  2. Driving Questions Why is it important to be educated about genocides of the 20th century? Why is it important that we inform the public of the genocides of the 20th century in an interesting, informative, and compelling way?

  3. Elie Wiesel In 1944 he and his family were sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz and at Buna, both in Poland. His imprisonment, which he describes in horrifying detail in Night, forever changed Wiesel as a man and as a Jew.

  4. Elie Wiesel Wiesel was freed in April 1945, when he was sixteen years old. He went to a French Orphanage and was later reunited with his older sisters. He vowed to never write about the Holocaust.

  5. Night Through young Wiesel’s eyes, readers travel into the hell of Hitler’s death camps and into the darkness of a long night in the history of the human race.

  6. Night Night is the account of a young man (Elie) who must bear responsibility for his aged father and whose loss of a beloved parent wracks his spirit with terror, despair and regret.

  7. Characters ElieWeisel—the narrator and author of the novel, Night. Chlomo Wiesel—Elie’s father.  They manage to stay together during they deportment. Idek—a crazy Kapo who beats Elie.  The worst of Elie’s mistreatment comes after he laughs at Idek lying with a young Polish girls.  For this, Elie is given 25 lashes and faints. Rabbi Eliahous—this rabbis’ son deserts him in order to survive.  Disturbed by the son’s selfishness, Eli prays that he will never grow so callous toward his own father.

  8. Characters Heinrich Himmler—Hitler’s second in command and the head of the S.S.  He established Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, near Munich, Germany. Adolf Hitler—Dictator of Germany; a demagogue and tyrant who obtains power by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of the masses. Dr. Mengele—the “Angel of Death”; a doctor who performed brutal, unnecessary experiments and operations upon prisoners.

  9. Memoir A memoir is a piece of autobiographical writing, usually shorter in nature than a comprehensive autobiography. Often tries to capture certain highlights or meaningful moments in one's past A fictional quality even though the story is true

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