Introduction to Elie Wiesel’s Night The Holocaust and other Background Information.
Elie Wiesel’s Night
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The story of a Holocaust survivor ELIE WIESEL’S NIGHT
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• 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 - ??
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CONTEXT OF NIGHT: THE HOLOCAUST
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• January: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (Jewish population of 556,000)
• March: Concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald are opened
THE BEGINNING: 1933
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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
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• March 1938: German troops “peacefully” occupy Austria
• November 1938: Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
THE MAKINGS OF WAR
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• 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
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July 1941: “The Final Solution” begins over the next 4 years 6 million Jews will be murdered
“THE FINAL SOLUTION”
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1944 ELIE WIESEL AND HIS FAMILY ARE
DEPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ
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1945: DEATH MARCH TO BUCHANWALD
Sighet
AuschwitzBuchenwalk
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1945: DEATH MARCH TO BUCHANWALD
Painting by Jan Hartman
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ALLIED SOLDIERS LIBERATED ELIE WIESEL ON
APRIL 11, 1945
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• 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
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Night is based on Elie Wiesel’s experience but it is not an exact account.
NIGHT
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“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?