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= __**Elie Wiesel Biography**__ =

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. Wiesel has had many hardships throughout his life and continues to face diversity everyday. His early life as a child focused mainly on his family, the community, and God. From an early age Wiesel was fascinated with the stories of Jewish and Hassidic stories, which were passed down from his mother's side of the family. The village of Sighet where Elie and his family had resided changed hands from the Romanians to the Hungarians, but they still believed that there family was safe. He was eventually deported to Auschwitz with his family in 1944. He managed to survive his time spent there, with the company of his father. He somehow survived through slave conditions of being beaten, overworked, starved, & kept in terrible conditions. This continued in Buna, Gleiwitz, & Buchenwald. Elie was liberated in 1945 and he proceeded to live in a French orphanage, where he eventually began studying in Paris. He then proceeded to work for the French magazine //L'arche//, and studied journalism. He received a job working as a professional journalist, writing for both France and Israel. Regardless of his career in writing, he refused, for about a decade, to write about his experiences. Ultimately, a Noble named Francois Mauriac, urged him to speak out against the injustice that he was forced to experience as a child. By the year of 1954, Wiesel had decided to tell his tale in the Holocaust.

=//** __Night__ **//** __Summary__ **= **The book starts out with Elie living in the village of Sighet with his family. He is also taught by Moshe the Beadle. Elie and his family are confined into Ghettos and have their personal possessions confiscated. Later, they are packed into cattle cars and transported to concentration camps. On Elie's cattle car, there is a woman named Madame Schachter. She screams about fire in the distance. The car arrives at Auschwitz and the Jews are separated. That is the last time Elie saw his Mother and sisters. Elie and his father pass selection and begin their journey.**

**They remain tough and brave, working every day. Later, there is a public hanging of a child where the prisoners are forced to watch him die. This made everyone sad. Throughout the year, the Jewish holidays came and went. The prisoners tried to keep faith and celebrate the holidays in any way they could. Unfortunately, their faith was burning out. The prisoners were forced to run to Gleiwitz by foot in a blizzard. This was tough on everyone. Upon arriving in Buchenwald, his father gets dysentery. He dies from other prisoners beating him while Elie turns a blind eye. Months later, the American army comes and liberates the camp.**

=**__ 3 Characters From the Book __**= =**__ Juliek __**= = This could be what Juliek looked like! Juliek was a violinist who Elie met in the beginning of the book. He finds him again at Buchenwald when they are laying in the barracks. Elie is on top of him, crushing him. Later, Juliek plays a song for the dead. Then he dies. Elie says that he still thinks of Juliek to this day whenever he hears the song that he played. =

=__Stein__= = This is Stein. He is Elie's family member who showed up at the concentration camp. Stein asks about his family and Elie lies to him, saying that they were okay. This gave Stein hope to carry on. But, later he finds out that his family is dead and dies. =

=** __The French-Aryan Woman__ **= =** This is the "French-Aryan" woman. When Elie is beaten by Idek, this woman comforts him. She let down her guard by speaking and showing that she was Jewish, not Aryan. This inspired Elie. Later, Elie runs into her again. Which is so crazy! **=

=**__ 3 Important Places From the Book __**=

= Auschwitz is important because this was the first camp Elie went to. It was also the biggest camp. =
 * __AUSCHWITZ__**

= **Paris is important because that's where Elie moves after leaving the concentration camp. This is also where Elie has spent most of his life.** =
 * __Paris__**

__**Buchenwald**__ = **Buchenwald is important because this is where Elie is freed. It's also where his Dad dies and he sees Juliek again.** =

= **__3 Holocaust Survivors__** =

=__ Frimit Bursztyn __= = Frimit was born on April 15th, 1918, in Warsaw, Poland, to Jewish parents. She was one of eight children. Her city was surrendered on September 28th, 1939, and she was transported to Majdanek on May 1st, 1943. She worked fertilizing fields and changed camps a lot of times before she was finally freed on April 27th, 1945. In 1949, Frimit moved to the United States. = I think her story is inspiring because she never gave up. Even when she changed camps so many times, she kept going.

= **__Mike Jacobs__** = = **Mike Jacobs was born in Poland in 1925. Poland was invaded by the Nazis when he was 14 and he was taken away in a cattle car. He was sent to Ostroweic and was the only one in his family to survive! He was in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Mathausen-Gusen II where he was liberated in 1945.** = I cannot believe that Mike was in so many different camps. That is so crazy. He must have had a lot of faith and strength to keep up that long through all of those different camps!

= **__Alexander Kimel__** = === Alexander was born in a small town, Podhajce, in Galizia. In 1939 his town was occupied by the Red Army. A year later his family was thrown out of their house. After moving to a small town (Rohatyn) they survived the ghetto. Between 1941 and 1943, the German had already killed almost all the Jews. Out of ten thousand inhabitants only 100 survived. Throughout all the years if chaos, Alexander had never been to a concentration camp. === I thought that Alexander was interesting because it shows that you didn't have to be in a concentration camp to have it hard.

=Pictures from the Holocaust=







__** Extra Credit!!!! **__

__** This is an interesting video dealing with the controversy surrounding the Holocaust. **__ media type="youtube" key="zaCdKwFcHnw?rel=0" height="315" width="420"

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