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The story of a Holocaust survivor ELIE WIESEL’S NIGHT

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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

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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?