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Question of the Day
Read biography in front of you. Then answer the questions below.
1. What is the name of your person? Where were she/he from? When were she/he born?
2. List two things that happened to him/her during the years 1933-1939
3. List two things that happened to him/her during the years 1940-1944
4. What happened to him/her?
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Elie Wiesel (pronounced ELL-ee vee-ZEL)
Obj: Learn background information to understand the relevance of the novel, Night
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Background Information
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, (now part of Romania) in 1928
At 15, Elie and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz ( a concentration camp) because they were Jewish
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Elie Wiesel at 15, the age he was imprisoned in Auschwitz
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Elie’s Family
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Where He Grew Up
• In 1941, 20,000 Jews lived in Sighet
• Today, 100 Jews are left
Sighet, Transylvania is located in present day Romania and is referred to as Sighetu, Marmatiei. Over 40,000 people live there today.
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1941 in Sighet
Elie Wiesel met Moishe the Beadle
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Elie Wiesel’s House in Sighet
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Elie’s entry card to Paris
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Elie as writer
After graduating from the Sorbonne (in Paris), Elie became a journalist for a small French newspaper
He also worked as a translator and a Hebrew teacher to make ends meet
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Elie’s entry card to Paris
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The novel, Night
After 10 years of silence, Elie was persuaded to recount his time at Auschwitz
Night, his memoir about his experience during the Holocaust, was published in 1960.
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Night - continued
Has been translated into more than 30 languages
Sold more than 7 million copies
Wiesel has written 40 books since
Most of them are about the Holocaust, which still “haunts” him
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Nobel Peace Prize
In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize
He used the Prize to create the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
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Wiesel delivered his Nobel Prize speech in Oslo on December 10, 1986.
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His work
Wiesel considers himself a “messenger of the dead among the living.”
He considers it his mission to make sure that the Holocaust is never forgotten.
He also works fervently to protect others from Human Rights violations
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Human Rights- Wiesel has defended:
Israel Soviet Jews Nicaragua's Miskito Indians Argentina's Desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees Victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of
apartheid in South Africa\ Victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.
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Present
Wiesel lives with his wife in Connecticut
He is 80 years old
He is still working to promote human rights all over the world
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Recent photo of Elie Wiesel
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Quotes
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to
each other.”- Nobel Speech, 1986
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In November 1945 Niemöller visited Dachau, where he had been imprisoned from 1941 to April 1945.
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Summary and ProcessingSummary• Write a summary about what you learned about
the author Elie Wiesel • Finally, mention why you think the author may
have chosen to name the novel Night. How may this be symbolism?
Process• Your option, but it must support your summary
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Question of the Day 1/4
• Choose one of the quotes I showed you and put it in your own words. In addition, mention why the meaning has relevance still today
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Works Cited
“Elie Wiesel.” The Elie Wiesel Foundation. 12 March 2009. <http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/eliewiesel.aspx>.
“Elie Wiesel Biography.” The Nobel Foundation. 12 March 2009. <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-bio.html>.
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Works Cited
“The Life and Work of Elie Wiesel.” 2002. PBS.org. 12 March 2009. <http://www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/life/index.html>.