1. The story of a Holocaust survivor
Elie Wiesel’s Night
The story of a Holocaust survivor

2. Raised in the village of Sighet, Hungary Jewish faith Jewish ethnicity
Elie Wiesel
Raised in the village of Sighet, Hungary
Jewish faith
Jewish ethnicity
Deported in 1944, to the Auschwitz concentration camp
Rescued in 1945 from the Buchenwalk concentration camp ??

3. Context of Night: The Holocaust

4. March: Concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald are opened
The Beginning: 1933
January: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (Jewish population of 556,000)
March: Concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald are opened

5. Defined Judaism as a race Removed Jewish citizenship
The Nuremburg Laws of 1935
The Nuremburg Laws:
Defined Judaism as a race
Removed Jewish citizenship
Outlawed intermarrying with “Aryan races”
Required Jews to carry identification cards

6. March 1938: German troops “peacefully” occupy Austria
The Makings of War
March 1938: German troops “peacefully” occupy Austria
November 1938: Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass

7. September 1939: Germany invades Poland – WWII starts
World War II
September 1939: Germany invades Poland – WWII starts
November 1939: Polish Jews required to wear the yellow Star of David
June 1940: Germany occupies Paris

8. “The Final Solution”
July 1941: “The Final Solution” begins over the next 4 years 6 million Jews will be murdered

9. 1944 Elie Wiesel and his Family are deported to Auschwitz

10. 1945: Death March to Buchanwald
Buchenwalk
Auschwitz
Sighet

11. 1945: Death March to Buchanwald
Painting by Jan Hartman

12. Allied Soldiers Liberated Elie Wiesel On April 11, 1945

13. Lived in France with his two surviving sisters
After His Rescue
Lived in France with his two surviving sisters
Worked as a French journalist
Would not speak about his Holocaust experiences for 10 years
Night first appeared in – much longer and written in Yiddish
Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

14. Night
Night is based on Elie Wiesel’s experience but it is not an exact account.

15. “But if I would show the good that came of it
Why?
“But if I would show the good that came of it
I must talk of things other than good.” OR
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
~Dante’s Inferno