1. Night
By Elie Wiesel d

2. Elie Wiesel Born September 30, 1928 Orthodox Jewish family “shtetl”
Sighet, Transylvania
Orthodox Jewish family
“shtetl”

3. Wiesel, cont. Extremely religious Father: Shlomo Sister: Tzipora
Unusual for a boy his age
Father: Shlomo
Endures the camps with Elie
Sister: Tzipora
Young, killed in Auschwitz
Mother: Sarah
Killed with Tzipora in Auschwitz
Sighet: isolated & unaware of the extent of the atrocities
Over 15,000 Jewish familes prior to 1944, less than 50 after.

4. Hitler & Anti-Semitism
Jews blamed for economic depression in Germany
Superiority of “aryan” race
Anti-Semetic laws
“Nuremburg” laws
Designed to dehumanize Jews & subject them to violence & prejudice
“Germans! Defend yourselves! Don’t buy in Jewish shops!”

5. Auschwitz
Deadliest of all death camps
1,300,000 murdered Jews

6. Concentration Camps Varying ‘purposes’ Death/Extermination Labor
Auschwitz
Labor
Buna, Buchenwald

7. “Un di Velt Hot Geshvign”
Yiddish: “And the World Remained Silent”
Original title of 800 page memoir
Condensed & translated into French, La Nuit
Published as Night in 1960
10 year vow of silence
“The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.”
Continues to teach & write
Active speaker/lecturer