1. The Life of Elie Wiesel Author of “Night” Short for Eliezer
Author of night which we will be reading soon
Author of “Night”

2. Early Life Born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928.
Lived with his family
Father
Schlomo
Mother
Feig
3 sisters
Hilda
Bea
Tzipora
Sighet
Born in sighet transylvania now romania
Town has transferred to many hands over the years because of war
Mother, Father and younger sister tzipora died in camps
Met up with other sisters after the war

3. Early Life Began religious Hebrew studies at an early age
Also encouraged to concentrate on secular studies by his father
Grew up speaking Yiddish at home, Hungarian, Romanian, and
German in the community
Pursued Talmudic studies in the town's Yeshiva. However his father Shlomo, who ran a grocery store, although also religious, was regarded as an emancipated Jew, open to events of the world. He insisted that his son study modern Hebrew as well, so that he could read the works of contemporary writers. And at home in Sighet, which was close to the Hungarian border, Wiesel's family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian and Romanian. Today, Wiesel thinks in Yiddish, writes in French, and, with his wife Marion and his son Elisha, lives his life in English.

4. After the War Lived in an orphanage until 1948
Faced with a pivotal choice
Studied at preparatory schools for a few years in France
Studied literature, philosophy,
and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Sent to France to study as part of a group of Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust. There he was given a choice — secular studies, or religious studies. Wiesel's faith had been severely wounded by his experiences in Auschwitz and three other concentration camps. He felt God had turned his back on the Jews. But, despite his bitterness, he chose to return to religious studies: "My only experience in the secular world," he explains, "was Auschwitz."
Sorbonne - The name Sorbonne (La Sorbonne) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions. Founded in 1257.

5. After the War Author of more than forty books Night
A Beggar in Jerusalem
Winner of the Prix Médicis
Dawn
The Accident
All Rivers Run to the Sea
For ten years, he observed a self-imposed vow of silence and wrote nothing about his wartime experience. In 1955, at the urging of the Catholic writer Francois Mauriac, he set down his memories in Yiddish, in a 900-page work entitled Un die welt hot geshvign (And the world kept silent). The book was first published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wiesel compressed the work into a 127-page French adaptation, La Nuit (Night), but several years passed before he was able to find a publisher for the French or English versions of the work. Even after Wiesel found publishers for the French and English translations, the book sold few copies.
In 1956, while he was in New York covering the United Nations, Elie Wiesel was struck by a taxi cab. His injuries confined him to a wheelchair for almost a year. Unable to renew the French document which had allowed him to travel as a "stateless" person, Wiesel applied successfully for American citizenship. Once he recovered, he remained in New York and became a feature writer for the Yiddish-language newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward (Der forverts ).
Wiesel continued to write books in French, including the semi-autobiographical novels L'Aube (Dawn), and Le Jour (translated as The Accident ). In his novel La Ville de la Chance (translated as The Town Beyond the Wall ), Wiesel imagined a return to his home town, a journey he did not undertake in life until after the book was published.

6. After the War
1976
Appointed Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
1985
Congressional Medal of Freedom
1986
Nobel Peace Prize
Professor of Huanities at Boston University since 1976
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. In 1985 he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom and, in 1986, the Nobel Prize for Peace. The English translation of his memoirs appeared in 1995 as All Rivers Run to the Sea. Since 1976, he has been Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University. He makes his home in New York City with his wife and their son, Elisha.

7. 1944-1945 Family removed from Sighet in 1944 Deported by Nazis
Elie was 15
Shoved like “cattle’ into a train
Elie at 15
Car used to transport to concentration camps

8. Auschwitz-Birkenau First camp the Wiezel’s were moved to
Feig and Tzipora gassed on the first night
At least 1,200,000-4,000,000 executed from
Up to 20,000 gassed and cremated each day
Beginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the time was under German occupation. The Auschwitz camps were a major element in the perpetration of the Holocaust; about 1.1 million people were killed there, of whom over 90% were Jews.
The three main camps were:
Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp which served as the administrative center for the whole complex, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70,000 people, mostly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp, where at least 1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles, and some 19,000 Roma (Gypsies) were killed.
Auschwitz III (Monowitz), which served as a labor camp for the Buna-Werke factory of the I.G. Farben concern.
See list of subcamps of Auschwitz for others.
Like all German concentration camps, the Auschwitz camps were operated by Heinrich Himmler's SS. The commandants of the camp were the SS-Obersturmbannführers Rudolf Höss (often anglicised to "Hoess") until the summer of 1943, and later Arthur Liebehenschel and Richard Baer. Höss provided a detailed description of the camp's workings during his interrogations after the war and also in his autobiography. He was hanged in 1947 in front of the entrance to the crematorium of Auschwitz I. Command of the women's camp, which was separated from the men's area by the incoming railway line was held in turn by Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, and Elisabeth Volkenrath.
Photograph of Birkenau, taken May , by a De Havilland Mosquito plane of the South African Air Force, sent to photograph the fuel factory at nearby Monowitz. The photographic analysts missed the significance of the photograph; it was identified only in the late 1970s and analyzed by the CIA in Smoke can be seen issuing from Crematorium V.

9. Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors in 1945
One of the mass graves at Auschwitz
Photograph of Birkenau, taken May , by a De Havilland Mosquito plane of the South African Air Force, sent to photograph the fuel factory at nearby Monowitz. The photographic analysts missed the significance of the photograph; it was identified only in the late 1970s and analyzed by the CIA in Smoke can be seen issuing from Crematorium V.

10. Buchenwald Elie and his father moved there in 1945
Father died days before liberation
Liberated April 11, 1945
904 children rescued including Elie
56,545 dead
Elie can be seen in the center of the photo his head is just above two others in the middle bunk.
According to the same source, the total number of deaths at Buchenwald is estimated at 56,545.[5] This number is the sum of:
Deaths according to material left behind by SS: 33,462[6].
Executions by shooting: 8,483.
Executions by hanging (estimate): 1,100.
Deaths during evacuation transports: 13,500[7].
This total (56,545) corresponds to a death rate of 24 percent assuming that the number of persons passing through the camp according to documents left by the SS, 238,380 prisoners, is accurate.[8]

11. Buchenwald
In the photo above, Elie Wiesel is the tall boy with a full head of dark hair who is the fourth from the front on the left side of the column. The gate house of the Buchenwald camp is in the background on the right. Most of the Buchenwald orphans were teenagers, and only 30 of them were under the age of 13.
Stacks of bodies at buchenwald

12. Holocaust
Concentration, Labor, and Extermination camps set up by the Nazis
Deaths of Jews, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, along with slave laborers, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, the disabled, and political opponents
9,000,000 – 11,000,000 dead
Mass gassings, shootings, hangings, burnings
Beatings, starvation, being frozen alive
Horrible medical experiments
The most notorious of these physicians was Dr. Josef Mengele, who worked in Auschwitz. His experiments included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, attempting to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, and various amputations and other brutal surgeries.[
Romani children in Auschwitz, victims of medical experiments.
He seemed particularly keen on working with Romani children. He would bring them sweets and toys, and would personally take them to the gas chamber. They would call him "Onkel Mengele."[22] Vera Alexander was a Jewish inmate at Auschwitz who looked after 50 sets of Romani twins:
I remember one set of twins in particular: Guido and Ina, aged about four. One day, Mengele took them away. When they returned, they were in a terrible state: they had been sewn together, back to back, like Siamese twins. Their wounds were infected and oozing pus. They screamed day and night. Then their parents—I remember the mother's name was Stella—managed to get some morphine and they killed the children in order to end their suffering.- Berenbaum, Michael

13. Holocaust Man being shot at a mass grave
Romani children being experimented on by mengele
Stacks of bodies.