Remembering the Holocaust

Remembering the Holocaust

The Elie Wiesel StoryThe Elie Wiesel Story

A Time of Uneasiness A Time of Uneasiness

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Franklin Delano Rooseveltis elected President of the USAand launches a new programto help agriculture after the Great Depression

Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany

Italian Prime MinisterMussolini invades

Ethiopia

1930s1930s

Family Life in the 1930sFamily Life in the 1930s

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Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel was a young Jewish boy who was raised in Sighet. He and his family lived there prior to the events of World War II.

Elie at age 15

Sighet, orModern day Transylvania.

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Sighet was a quaint Jewish community.This is a picture of members of the

Jewish religion in front of a wooden synagoguein Sighet in the 1930s.

Elie was born to the parents Shlomo and Sarah. They owned a grocery store. He had two older sisters Hilda and Bea and a

younger sister Tsipora.

Life was good for the Wiesel family. The children attended school and Elie was learning Hebrew and studying the Jewish

religion.

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In May of 1944, Elie and his family alongwith other Jewish people of Sighet were

loaded into cattle cars and taken to Auschwitz – a Nazi death camp.

At Auschwitz, Elie and his father wentone way and his mother and younger

sister went to the gas chambers.

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Elie and his father survived Auschwitz

and were then moved to Buna - a subcamp of Auschwitz

There were 10,000 prisoners inBuna and the majority of them

died due to starvation

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Elie and his father moved from Buna to the camp known as Buchenwald. They did this by foot for ten days in harsh winter

weather conditions.

Elie’s father died at the end of January 1945 of dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion upon

arrival at Buchenwald.

However, on the morning of April 11, 1945 the United States liberated the Buchenwald camp

and Elie Wiesel was set free.

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Present Day EliePresent Day Elie

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Elie has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University since 1976. He is a Member of the faculty in both of the departments of Religion and Philosophy.

He is the author of over 40 books, fiction and non-fiction - including “Night” and “The Fifth Son”.

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Elie’s AwardsElie’s AwardsPresidential Medal of Freedom

U.S. Congressional Gold Medal

Medal of Liberty Award

Nobel Peace Prize for Peace

Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky individuals. He survived. He was allowed to tell his story

and share it with the rest of the world. It teaches us to recognize that this type of

behavior cannot go on. The human populationmust stand against this and try to make today’s world a

better place to live in.

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The time of World War II was a troubled time. Many individuals were killed and tortured in Nazi camps. Some survived and some did not. All types of people were sought after, however, not just the Jewish people.

If you are still interested:If you are still interested:

• Visit the Web sites identified at the bottom of each slide

• Or go to: www.angliabattlefields.co.uk/ for more information on tours that are given of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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