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Elie Wiesel’s Night: Historical and Literary Focus TIMOTHY HURSLEY

Elie Wiesel’s Night : Historical a nd Literary Focus

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Elie Wiesel’s Night : Historical a nd Literary Focus. TIMOTHY HURSLEY. Prewar group portrait in front of a synagogue in the Transylvanian town of Sighet . Adolph Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, January 1933. The Nuremberg Laws are put into effect. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Elie  Wiesel’s  Night : Historical  a nd  Literary Focus

Elie Wiesel’s Night:

Historical and

Literary Focus

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Prewar group portrait in front of a synagogue in the

Transylvanian town of Sighet.

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Adolph Hitler is appointed Chancellor of

Germany, January 1933.

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The Nuremberg Laws are put into effect.

Germany, September 15, 1935.

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Germany invades Poland,

September 1, 1939.

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Germany occupies France,

May 1940.

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Three-Power Agreement. Berlin, Germany,

November 23, 1940.

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The Wannsee Conference, January 20,

1942—“The Final Solution”

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The deportation of the ghetto population in

Sighet Marmatiei, Hungary, May 1944.

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August 1944: Despite pleas from Jewish leaders in the

international leaders to the US Department of State, the

decision is made to not bomb Auschwitz.

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The Buchenwald concentration camp, near

Weimar, Germany, is liberated on April 15, 1945.

Elie Wiesel is pictured, second row of barracks,

seventh to the left.

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The execution of Marshall Ion Antonescu, former dictator of Romania (1940-1944) at the Fort

Jilava prison in a suburb of Bucharest; June 1946

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On October 14, 1950, the UN Genocide Convention

surpassed the 20 votes necessary for the convention to come into effect, which it did

in January 1951.

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Contact:

Christina E. Chavarrí[email protected]

202.488.0466