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Night By Eli Wiesel. Eli Wiesel. Born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania) Two older sisters; one younger Deported to Auschwitz in 1944 (15 years old). http://www.transylvania.info/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9995&g2_serialNumber=3. Eli Wiesel.
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Eli Wiesel • Born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania) • Two older sisters; one younger • Deported to Auschwitz in 1944 (15 years old)
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Eli Wiesel • Survives camp and moves to France • Moves to New York in 1955 • Writes his WWII autobiography in 1960
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Eli Wiesel • Wins Congressional Medal of Honor in 1985 • Wins Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
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THEMES • Silence • Darkness (Supposed Absence of God)
MOTIFS • Tradition • Faith (or lack thereof) • Survival
VOCAB • CABBALA – • Jewish mysticism (includes numerology)
VOCAB • GHETTO – confinement to a particular area of a city
VOCAB • GESTAPO – German Secret State Police
VOCAB • KAPO – concentration camp prisoners made to oversee other prisoners
VOCAB • S.S (“Schutz-Staffel”) • Elite Nazi guards; sometimes called Hitler’s bodyguards
Indifference to evil is evil. -Elie Wiesel
Works Cited “Elie Wiesel Biography.” Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. 2010. Web. 30 Nov 2010.