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Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust Survivor. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, He was born in Sighet, Transylvania. 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. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregive. Due to a fateful accident in New York in 1956, Wiesel spent a year confined to a wheelchair while recovering.
 * __Elie Wiesel __**



**__Night__**
Night begins in the Jewish community in the small town of Sighet, in Transylvania (now Romania) in 1941. World War II rages. The story is told by Eliezer, a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy who is the third of four children in the family, and the only boy. He begins his story by describing a poor man in the village named Moche the Beadle, who was much liked by everyone. Eliezer first got to know him in 1941, when Eliezer was twelve and wanted to know about Cabbala, the mystical aspect of Judaism. Moche turned out to be a wise man who understood spiritual matters and was an expert on the Cabbala. He and Eliezer now study it together.

But trouble was brewing for the Jews of Sighet. One day all foreign Jews were expelled from the town. This included Moche. Several months later, toward the end of 1942, Moche returned and told a terrible story. The Jews who had been expelled had reached Poland when the German Gestapo took control of them. The Gestapo then killed their prisoners. Moche was wounded in the leg but managed to escape. But people in Sighet do not believe Moche's stories, thinking he only wants to gain attention. Even Eliezer does not believe him, and the Jews in Sighet feel that they were safe. The war is beginning to go against Germany, and they believe better days are on the way.

**__Characters In The Novel Night .__**
Eliezer's father: He is held in high esteem in the Jewish community in Sighet. He and his wife are shopkeepers.  according to Eliezer's description of him, a cultured, rather unsentimental man. He Is too weak to survive the final train journey to Buchenwald.

Akiba Drumer: One of the Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz and Buna. At first he has strong religious faith, seeing the camps as a way in which God tests His people. But eventually he loses his faith. He is killed by the Nazis at Buna.

Eliezer: He is the narrator of the story. In 1941, he is twelve years old, and lives happily in the Jewish community in Sighet. He shows great interest in religion, studies Talmud and also seeks out instruction in the mysteries of the Cabbala, the Jewish mystical tradition. In 1944, Eliezer is deported, along with the rest of his family. He is sent first to Auschwitz concentration camp, then to Buna, and finally to Gleiwitz and Buchenwald, where he is liberated by American forces in April, 1945. Throughout his ordeal, Eliezer tries to stick close to his father and look after him. Him And His Father Did Not Part Until He Died.



**3 Important Places In The Novel .**
**__-__** Elie finally ends up in the Buchenwald camp which is part of the Auschwitz complex.
 * __Auschwitz__**

**__Buna __**


Buna was evacuated in the book. Elie went from Auschwitz concentration camp, then to Buna.


 * __Buchenwald __**

He Was Finally Sent To Buchenwald Concentration Center.

**__3 Holocaust Survivors__**
=PETER PHILIPPS =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany's Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Muehlheim. His mother was a designer for a fashionable women's dress shop. Pete, his younger twin brothers, and parents lived together in an apartment. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">933–39: Pete had barely passed his first birthday when the Nazis came to power. His father realized the danger that now faced Jews in Germany, and the family left for Prague, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #336699; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|Czechoslovakia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, in 1936. Pete attended Jewish school there, but the times were unsettling.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Regina Spiegel **

R<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">egina was born May 12, 1926 in Radom <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #336699; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|,] Poland<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, a city with a vibrant Jewish community. Her father, Kadysh, worked as a leather cutter for a large shoe company and her mother, Brandla, took care of Regina and her five older siblings. The Gutmans were a very religious family and the children attended Hebrew school in the afternoons. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">egina’s mother took only the comforters from their beds and her silver candlesticks and the family relocated into a small, single room in the ghetto. Food was scarce and disease was rampant so Regina’s parents decided to smuggle her out of the ghetto to go live with her sister, Rozia, in Pionki, a town about 30km away. Regina and Rozia lived in the restricted Jewish area in Pionki until the ghetto was established in 1942.

= **Shep Zitler** =