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Elie Wiesel is the author of Night, his famous memoir of his terrifying and tragic experiences during the Holocaust. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp and symbol of genocide and terror. His mother and younger sister died there, while his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April of 1945. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel …show more content…

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? REICH (means an empire rules for a 1,000 years). There are three Reich’s in history: 1st: Charlemagne (768-814), 2nd: Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888-1918), and 3rd: Adolf Hitler 1933-1945. Adolf’s first plan of action as President was called the Enabling Acts: This gave Hitler the power to change laws without anyone’s approval. It also banned the forming of new parties. He conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against its political opponents - the weak Weimar government and the Jews whom the Nazis blamed for Germany's problems. The Nazi regime also included social reform measures. Hitler promoted anti-smoking campaigns across the country. These campaigns stemmed from Hitler’s self-imposed dietary restrictions, which included abstinence from alcohol and meat. At dinners, Hitler sometimes told graphic stories about the slaughter of animals in an effort to shame his fellow diners. He encouraged all Germans to keep their bodies pure of any intoxicating or unclean substance. A main Nazi concept was the notion of racial hygiene. New laws banned marriage between non-Jewish and Jewish Germans, and deprived "non-Aryans" of the benefits of German citizenship. Hitler's early “selective breeding” policies targeted children with physical and developmental disabilities, and later authorized an euthanasia program for disabled

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Night by Elie Wiesel is a book describing the 9 months he spent at the concentration camps. In the book Elie is 15 years old when his family and him are separated and sent to the concentration camps. During the book Elie stays with his father throughout until his father dies but he is separated from his mother and three sisters. Elie’s littlest sister and his mother were killed but years after the camps were liberated Elie found his two older sisters and met up with them. From November to April 1945 he spent 9 months in the camps.

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During the Holocaust about 500,000 to 750,000 people were murdered due to their religion. Elie Wiesel was one of the people who survived this tragic event and wrote Night to bring attention and to inform about how it happened. The book Night is a nonfiction book about how Elie Wiesel lived in the town of Sighet as a child and was put into a concentration camp. He was put in a concentration camp because he is Jewish and was growing up during World War 2, when Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jewish people. This book is well written and fits all of my criteria for what makes a book worth reading.

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The book Night is a very descriptive book about the holocaust and the man who wrote the book Elie Wiesel has showed the cruelty that people can be but also shows how people still resist to what was happening to them not a mass of people but enough for him to notice. “A violin in a dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of the living? Who was this madman who played the violin here, at the edge of his own grave?” (Wiesel 95). The person who played the violin was a kid around the same age as Elie named Juliek.

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Elie Wiesel was also an amazing writer he wrote about his experiences and the changes he had faced during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was fortunate enough to live and tell his stories and share it with the world. He was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet Romania. Elie and his family were put into ghettos in 1940 but on May 1944, at the age of 15, they were placed into concentration camps. The people who were in these camps were Jews mainly, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies and much more.

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Weeded from the Jewish ghettos located in Sighet, Romania in May of 1944, fifteen year-old Elie Wiesel is planted in the cold, yet flame filled, concentration camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, one out of Hitler's 40,000 incarnation camps. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, Wiesel shares his gruesome experiences in great detail in which he endured within the two-years he was a Jewish prisoner. Elie Wiesel is one out of the minority of Jews to survive the Holocaust whilst World War ll took place in Europe. Although Elie Wiesel is a known survivor of this great cataclysm on humanity, the remainder of his family was not as fortunate to share that title. The death of his family, along with the many other deaths and forms of torture that Wiesel witnessed,

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The book I chose to read was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is an autobiography. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish American who went through the Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. He is an author, professor and an activist. He was born on September 30th, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania.

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The book Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. This memoir is about Eliezer, a young Jewish boy, and his experience of the Holocaust that killed about 12 million people. Weisel used conflict to convey the central idea not to be blind to the truth. One of the characters in the book is called Moshe the Beadle. He was a pauper who roamed the streets of Sighet, Romania, the town where Elizer lives.

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Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor and author of the memoir “Night”, tells us of his unimaginable, concentration camp experience during WWII in Auschwitz, Germany. As one of the minority of the Jewish holocaust survivors, he shares his appalling experience with us and the world, which should never be forgotten. In the spring of 1944, Elie Wiesel was an 15 year old boy, living in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungaryan Transilvania. In this time the Nazis occupied Hungary and thus Wiesels family, neighbors and friends.

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In the memoir Night by Ellie Wiesel, he describes the events of surviving the holocaust and going to Auschwitz. Elie was born in Hungary, Once Hitler's forces arrived, there he was sent to the ghetto. Soon they get sent on trains to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sisters. He gets transferred from camp to camp until the end of the war when he is freed by the Red Army. Elie Wiesel and his prison mates have experienced terrible things throughout their experience with the Nazis in the concentration camps, eventually degrading them and dehumanizing them.

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“If we held a minute of silence for everyone that lost their life in the Holocaust, we would be silent for eleven years” - Unkown. Elie Wiesel decided to write about his experiences during the Holocaust resulting in the book Night. Elie was one of 11 million people that were targeted. From 1933 to 1945 millions of Jewish people were dehumanized and treated like everything but a human being. After the Holocaust, it was discovered that 6 million Jews were killed.

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What a Time to be Alive “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”(Elie Wiesel). The book “Night” was published on 1956 and it was written by Elie Wiesel. This book was about a boy’s experience in the Holocaust. Throughout “Night” there are three moments that are incredibly powerful to focus on and understand to fully grasp the importance of this holocaust memoir. They show the reader how Moshe the Beadle told the news to the public, Also how the woman was yelling fire over and over, And how Elie’s dad died a few months before he got saved.

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The book I chose to read, “Night”, was named after Elie Wiesel’s darkest time period in his life. When Elie was young, he was enslaved by the Nazi’s. In the novel, Elie tells us how harsh conditions were for the Jews and what they had to experience. After the Holocaust, he was inspired to write about the concentration camps that he stayed at and what he experienced while he was in the death camp. I chose to read this book because I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust and what the Jewish people had to experience.

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---Rough Draft--- While we probably all know that the Holocaust was a horrible stain on the fabric of society, Elie Wiesel's book shows that the acts of the Nazi's are more horrible towards the Jews than some of us may have been led to believe. Elie originates from a town known as Sighet located in what was previously known as Transylvania. Though Sighet was not part of Germany or Hungary, they were still abused by the SS soldiers, by trapping them in fenced off ghettos. They also soon transported them in a terrible cattle car ride, and treated them like slaves. But the meat of the story takes place in the concentration camp(s), where they are given minimal amounts of food and judged like dogs to see if they are worth keeping.

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In order to maintain the pure blood lines, Adolf Hitler used fixed stereotypes and Social Darwinism to

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- This was the beginnings of Hitler’s German police state, where simply civil rights were not a guarantee. - Political opponents, particularly those associated with the German Communists movement were treated to intimidation, persecution and discriminatory legislations. - For the first two years of his rule (1933-35) Hitler set about bringing other political parties, state governments and both cultural and professional organisations in line with Nazi Goals and plans. - Culture, the economy, education and law all came under Nazi control during this period. - Fear was key – by causing fear, people turn to a leader of note and stature, and Hitler fit the

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