Elie Wiesel Look‚ it’s important to bear witness. Important to tell your story. . . . You cannot imagine what it meant spending a night of death among death. —Elie Wiesel The obligation Elie Wiesel feels to justify his survival of a Nazi concentration camp has shaped his destiny. It has guided his work as a writer‚ teacher‚ and humanitarian activist; influ- enced his interaction with his Jewish faith; and affected his family and personal choices. Since World War II‚ Wiesel has borne witness to
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Night Study Guide Answers 1. Who was Moshe the Beadle? Moshe was the caretaker at the Hasidic synagogue. 2. What does Wiesel tell the reader of Moshe? He was poor and lived humbly. He was physically awkward and a dreamer who could appear to be so insignificant as to almost disappear. 3. How does Wiesel describe himself as a boy of 12? He was a serious student of religion who studied the Talmud during the day and prayed at night. 4. How does Wiesel describe his father? He was a
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“Night” by Elie Wiesel focuses on Wiesel’s experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 and 1945‚ toward the end of the Second World War. It all begins in 1941 with Eliezer is a twelve-year-old boy living in Sighet. He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family and is evidently quite religious. Eliezer learns the truth about World War II and the Holocaust through his teacher‚ Moshe the Beadle who was deported and escaped. When Moshe returns
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Elie Wiesel was born at 1928 in Sighet Transylvania he was 15 when he and his family went to the concentration camps His mother and younger sister perished‚ his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald‚ where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war he studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer‚ Francois Mauriac‚ he was persuaded to write about his experiences
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Elie has written many books about his times in the holocaust‚ most notably‚ his book titled Night. In his book‚ it goes from the years of 1944 to 1945 and takes place in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Many times in the book it displays terrible things that happened to most of the prisoners of the holocaust. One of the things is being separated from your family and not knowing what will happen to them. This happened to Elie
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In the selections in the camp the Jews are evaluated to resolve if they should be killed immediately or put to work. Eliezer and his father pass the evaluation since they lied about their age. The Jewish men’s were to strip‚ shave‚ disinfect and treated with torture. Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. In the camp the Jews are accountable to beatings and humiliations. The prisoners are forced to watch the hanging of fellow prisoners in the camp. Eliezer begins to lose humanity
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Life in concentration camps January 1933 was the worse time for Jewish people. In January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor and the first concentration camp was built. Adolf Hitler was born into a middle class family in April of 1889. His father‚ who died in 1903‚ was an Austrian customs official whom young Adolf quickly learned to fear. His mother‚ whom he loved very much‚ died four years later in 1907. Adolf dropped out of high school and moved to Vienna‚ hoping to become an artist.
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life in concentration camps during the holocaust. The year is 1941 when Elie‚ the deeply religious boy with a loving family consisting of three sisters and parents‚ is taken from home and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie is separated from family members (mom and sisters)‚ but remains with his father‚ only to be transferred from camp to camp. Through their perilous journey‚ Elie tells about the death
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Disenfranchisement within Literary Works Hate is human nature for some--those who are in a position of power toward others who seem less than equal. This repugnant behavioral trait is often implemented on those who deserve no such treatment. Those who are disenfranchised do not have same rights and equal opportunities as those who are not discriminated against or those who deprive power from others who are innocent. Literary works can be used to give examples of disenfranchisement and how people
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contrast to other father-son relationships. As time went by in the camps‚ their relationship changed from a typical relationship to an extraordinary and strong friendship. It now displays respect‚ equal treatment‚ and equal support
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