Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Eliezer or “Elie” Wisel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. Elie was also the narrator in the novel Night. A major point discussed by Elie was how we as the future generation should remember the victims of the Holocaust. Wisel points out that “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” In other words, if we don’t learn from history it is bound to repeat itself. Ankin as defined by the Webster Dictionary means to “essentially be similar, related, or compatible.” When Elie says “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time,” he is emphasizing that if we as the future generation forget about the victims of the mass genocide we