What Was The Impact Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel was a “Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate, and International Leader of the Holocaust Remembrance Movement”.Even though he had a hard life he was able to overcome all the obstacles that were that were thrown at him. He was even able to write a book about his life in the holocaust and how it effect him still to this day. Before Wiesel was forced to be in the camp he was just a normal teenager like you and me. He grew up with 3 sister and pursued a religious studies. This later on as a big effect on Wiesel and how he survived the horrifying experience in the camps.
When wiesel was first deporeted to the camp he first arrived at Buna Werke labor camp, a subcamp of Auschwitz III-Monowitz where him and his father were separated from his sisters and mother.They were forced to work under shameful, cruel conditions. Then they were transferred to other Nazi camps and on their way to the finally camp was forced to march to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated.Wiesel’s …show more content…

He then went on to take up journalism, writing for French and Israeli publications. “His friend and colleague François Mauriac, encouraged him to write about his experiences in the camps; Which later on would publish in Yiddish the memoir And the World Would Remain Silent in 1956. The book was shortened and published in France as La Nuit, and as Night for English readers in 1960. The memoir eventually became an acclaimed bestseller, translated into many languages, and is considered a seminal work on the terrors of the Holocaust.”(Elie Wiesel. (2017, February 08). Retrieved May 18, 2017) Wiesel went on to write many more books like Town of Luck (1962), The Gates of the Forest (1966) and The Oath (1973), and such nonfiction works as Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982) and the memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea