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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 - ??. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The story of a Holocaust survivor ELIE WIESEL’S NIGHT
• 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
ELIE WIESEL
1928 - ??
CONTEXT OF NIGHT: THE HOLOCAUST
• January: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (Jewish population of 556,000)
• March: Concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald are opened
THE BEGINNING: 1933
The Nuremburg Laws:• Defined Judaism as a
race• Removed Jewish
citizenship• Outlawed intermarrying
with “Aryan races”• Required Jews to
carry identification cards
THE NUREMBURG LAWS OF 1935
• March 1938: German troops “peacefully” occupy Austria
• November 1938: Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
THE MAKINGS OF WAR
• September 1939: Germany invades Poland – WWII starts
• November 1939: Polish Jews required to wear the yellow Star of David
• June 1940: Germany occupies Paris
WORLD WAR II
July 1941: “The Final Solution” begins over the next 4 years 6 million Jews will be murdered
“THE FINAL SOLUTION”
1944 ELIE WIESEL AND HIS FAMILY ARE
DEPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ
1945: DEATH MARCH TO BUCHANWALD
Sighet
AuschwitzBuchenwalk
1945: DEATH MARCH TO BUCHANWALD
Painting by Jan Hartman
ALLIED SOLDIERS LIBERATED ELIE WIESEL ON
APRIL 11, 1945
• 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
AFTER HIS RESCUE
Night is based on Elie Wiesel’s experience but it is not an exact account.
NIGHT
“But if I would show the good that came of itI must talk of things other than good.”
OR
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”~Dante’s Inferno
WHY?