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Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel. Timeline of Wiesel’s Life. 1928--born in Sighet, Transylvania 1944--deported to Auschwitz Jan.1945--father dies in Buchenwald Apr.1945--liberated from concentration camp 1948--moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. 1954--decides to write about the Holocaust

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Elie Wiesel

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  1. Elie Wiesel

  2. Timeline of Wiesel’s Life • 1928--born in Sighet, Transylvania • 1944--deported to Auschwitz • Jan.1945--father dies in Buchenwald • Apr.1945--liberated from concentration camp • 1948--moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne

  3. 1954--decides to write about the Holocaust • 1958--Night is published • 1963--receives U.S.Citizenship • 1978--appointed chair of Presidential Commission on the Holocaust • 1985--awarded Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement • 1986--awarded Nobel Peace Prize

  4. He grew up the only son of four children in a close-knit Jewish community. He was well educated in Hebrew studies, concentrating on the Hassidic sect of Judaism to which his mother's family belonged.

  5. Deportation • World War II changed Wiesel's life forever after his village was taken over by the Nazis in 1944. At age 15, he and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  6. Entrance to Auschwitz Concentration Camp “Arbeit Macht Frei” = Work Makes One Free

  7. Wiesel was separated from his mother and younger sister but remained with his father for another year. His father died in the last months of the war, and he never saw his mother and sister again learning that they had perished in the gas chambers.

  8. Wiesel ended up serving time at three other concentration camps -- Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz. Following the war, Wiesel learned that his two older sisters had survived.

  9. Night

  10. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE READING • Night is Elie Wiesel's personal account of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The book describes Wiesel's first encounter with prejudice and details the persecution of a people and the loss of his family. Wiesel's experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald are detailed; his accounts of starvation and brutality are shattering—a vivid testimony to the consequences of evil. Throughout the book, Wiesel speaks of the struggle to survive, the fight to stay alive while retaining those qualities that make us human. While Wiesel lost his innocence and many of his beliefs, he never lost his sense of compassion nor his inherent sense of right.

  11. Terms to know cabbala: Jewish mysticism studied by Jewish scholars ghetto: a small area of a city to which the Jewish people were restricted and from which they were forbidden to leave concentration camp: a group of labor and death camps in Germany and Poland kapo: overseer in charge of a work detail, or some other branch of a concentration camp. Often, kapos were selected from the prisoners--usually the criminals

  12. Memoir an autobiography OR biography or an account of historical events, especially one written from personal knowledge

  13. Why do you think Wiesel titled his book, Night?Write 2-3 sentences in making your prediction.

  14. Complete C-Notes • You are to write 10 c-question, in any combination of levels you like. However, you may NOT write all level 1 questions nor all level 2 or 3 questions. Your questions need to be varied. • Write the questions in the margin provided • Write the question next to the information with which it corresponds. • Write a 5 sentence summary.

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