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 * AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES **


 * ELIE WIESEL BACKGROUND **
 * Elie **Wiesel born September 30, 1928) is a [|Romanian] -born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, [|Nobel Laureate] , and [|Holocaust survivor] . He is the author of 57 books, including [|//Night//]//, // a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the [|Auschwitz] , Buna, and [|Buchenwald]  concentration camps.0 Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Algemeiner Journal newspaper] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Wiesel was awarded the <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Nobel Peace Prize] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> in 1986, the <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Norwegian Nobel Committee] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> called him a "messenger to mankind," stating that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace", Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 23px;">DETAIL SUMMARY OF NIGHT <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Eliezer is more than just a traditional protagonist; his direct experience is the entire substance of //Night.// He tells his story in a highly subjective, first-person, autobiographical voice, and, as a result, we get an intimate, personal account of the Holocaust through direct descriptive language. Whereas many books about the Holocaust use a generalized historical or epic perspective to paint a broad picture of the period, Eliezer’s account is limited in scope but gives a personal perspective through which the reader receives a harrowingly intimate description of life under the Nazis. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A poor, foreign Jew who lives in the town of Sighet, Moishe the Beadle is a teacher. A compassionate man, he befriends Eliezer to teach him Kabbalah, but he also returns to Sighet after a massacre of foreign Jews to warn the Jews of Sighet of coming danger. Moishe the Beadle, one could say, is like a prophet: he talks about strange, mysterious, and horrible things that he has seen, warning his people of the dangers to come, but nobody gives him the time of day. The Jews of Sighet prefer to remain foolishly optimistic about their situation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 32px;">Moishe the Beadle **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Schächter, like Moishe, is another prophet-like character. She is a middle-aged woman who goes crazy after she’s separated from her husband and packed into a cattle car headed to Auschwitz. Throughout the long nights in the train, she punctuates the imprisoned Jews’ journey with screaming and rambling about fire and flames, warning and begging the Jews to see the fire. Unwilling to listen to her warnings, the Jews beat her rather than acknowledge the danger they are in. She not only foreshadows the death that is to come for all of them, but the literal way everybody will die – their bodies burned in the furnace of Auschwitz. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the beginning of the book, Eliezer’s father is a respected Jewish community leader in Sighet. Despite his elevated position in his community, he makes the same mistakes as the other Jews: he disregards the warnings about the coming danger. Unwilling to take risks or leave his community, Eliezer’s father decides the family should not emigrate, but stick it out in Sighet. Even when he is about to be transported to a concentration camp, he decides the family shouldn’t go into hiding with their maid, Maria. He’s an optimist – until he reaches the Birkenau concentration camp.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 32px;">Mrs. Schächter **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 32px;">Eliezer’s father **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I pick this because it shows how the jewish people was stack up in the cattle cart in the Novel Night.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This is that tattoo that the nazi mark on the jewish people inorder to keep track of them.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Auschwitz Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination camp.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I was born in a small town, Podhajce, in Galizia. In 1939 my hometown was occupied by the Red Army, and a year later my family was thrown out from our house and the business was "nationalized." Fearing that we will be sent to Siberia, my father moved the family to another small town, Rohatyn, where we survived the ghetto. Between 1941 and 1943,the German killed almost all the Jews. Out of ten thousand inhabitants only 100 survived. I personally have never been to a concentration camp.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I was born in Vilna, Poland. Right now it's Vilnius, Lithuania, the capital of Lithuania. I am very proud of being born in a town like Vilna because they gave the eminent name to the Jewish people, to the Jewish world. "Jerusalem deLithuania"--What does it mean? That's the Jerusalem in the [|**diaspora**] of the Jews in the Eastern. . . That made this the capital, like Jerusalem in Israel is the capital of Israel, that's what they do. So they believed in Vilna is the capital of the Eastern European countries, and that's why they gave it that name, "Jerusalem deLithuania." And why? We did because in Vilna was. . . we weren't Chassidic. We believed, the Orthodox Jews, they were Misnagdim. . . we believed in the book, not in dancing and singing. We didn't do it. Right now I am saying I am not against it: we are going to the synagogue, you dance and you sing. We didn't do it, because we were learning. And Vilna has a name. We had a library in Vilna, Strashun they called it, and before the war it was the biggest library of Jewish learning in the world. If anybody all over, from America, if they wanted really to learn and to know anything about Jewishness, they had to come to Vilna, to my home town. That is why I am proud of being born in that particular city. We had. . . we had everything in Vilna. _ _ _ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I was born in a little city in Poland named Oleszyce. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> In our part of Poland there was a famous Rabbi, the Belzer [|**Rebbe**]. When I was born there was a big fire in the Rebbe's house. He had many invitations to stay with people while his house in Belz was being rebuilt. His personal secretary, his Gabbai, went to look at all these places and chose ours. Our house was big enough to accommodate the Rebbe's household. This was a great honor. He lived with us for three years.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">Shep Zitler **
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Place of Birth: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Vilnius, Lithuania // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Date of Birth: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">May 27, 1917 // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Life During Wartime: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Soldier and Prisoner of War // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Current Occupation: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Salesman // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Family: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Married, One Son // ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">Eva Galler **
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Place of Birth: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Oleszyce, Poland // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Date of Birth: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">January 1, 1924 // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Life During Wartime: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escaped from a Death Train // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Current Occupation: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Homemaker, Hebrew Teacher // ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Family: ** || //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Married, Three Daughters // ||   ||   ||

[] Information from the Novel Night. []