1. Night By Elie Wiesel

2. Elie Wiesel Born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928
Grew up in the small village of Sighet, Transylvania
Village deported in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz, then Buchenwald
April of 1945 – liberated from concentration camp

3. 1958 –Night is published
Went on to publish 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and moral issues
1986 – awarded Nobel
Peace Prize
Today Wiesel lives in New York and continues to be a spokesperson for the Holocaust and an advocate for peace.

4. Memoir A memoir is an account of events in a person’s life.
A memoir is written BY the person that the events are about.
It is similar to a biography in that it is written by the person that the events are about, but it usually does not cover the person’s entire life.

5. Why did Elie Wiesel write Night?
To bear witness
For the dead and for the living
To give some meaning to his survival
It was impossible to keep silent
To keep his past from becoming another’s future
~ From the preface in Night

6. Major Themes in Night
Inhumanity – humans treating other humans as animals, less than human
Survival – What will we as people do to survive? What will we not do?
- Silence - Loyalty Betrayal
Loss of Innocence – Is it possible to maintain innocence in the face of inhumanity?
Identity – What makes us who we are? Can we lose that? How?

7. Elie Wiesel on Oprah

8. Works Cited
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, Print.