Book Review & Rating Night by Elie Wiesel, is a non-fiction survival novel. The novel focuses mainly on the time Elie spends in the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. The novel starts out in Elie’s hometown in Transylvania, and his community is predominantly Jewish. Elie is one of four children him being the only son. His father was a man who spent much of his time being involved with the community authorities. Elie’s town is taken over by Hungarian Police who are under the rule of the German-Nazi’s. The Jewish people in his community are sent to live in “ghettos” that are fenced in and are under constant watch. One day, deportations begin. Elie and his family are part of the last transport out of his town. They are then brought …show more content…
He was born in Sighet, Transylvania (now part of Romania) on September 30, 1928. His mother, Sarah, and father, Shlomo, had four children including him. He has three sisters, Hilda, Tzipora, and Beatrice. Before the war Elie’s life revolved mostly around family and religious study. He was deported from his hometown in 1944, and spent over a year in concentration camps. He was liberated on April 11, 1945. After the war he spent a few years in a French orphanage where he was reunited with his two older sisters Beatrice and Hilda. In 1948, Elie began to study literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became involved in journalistic work with a French newspaper. He also wrote for Israeli and French newspapers. It was the Catholic writer Francois Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, that Elie wrote about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally known memoir And the World Remained Silent, in Yiddish, and La Nuit or Night in French. Elie moved to the US in the mid 1950s and successfully applied for citizenship. While in the US Elie continued to write in newspapers, and wrote over 40 fiction and nonfiction novels. Elie became Professor of Humanities at Boston University in 1976 and continues to teach. Elie married a woman named Marion and had one son named Shlomo Elie Wiesel is still alive, and he is 87. He has won many awards such as the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985, and The International Center in New York's Award of
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about Elie and his father and how they have to trust each other, have confidence, and never give up each other no matter what happens. In this book Elie and his family are sent to concentration camps. Elie and his family and have to work hard together. Elie and his family cannot give up and have to believe. There are many challenges during their journey and they have to survive through them.
As a young man he lived through the concentration camp located in Poland. Since Elie was a Jew he was starved and treated terrible for his religion meaning that Elie went days without eating. Elie had a little sister, mom named Sarah, and a dad named Shlomo. His little sister, mom, and dad were brutally killed during the
Elie Wiesel is not only a Jewish author, he is much more. He is a journalist, human rights activist, a Holocaust survivor, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. He was born September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, being the only boy in the family and having three sisters. Elie, at 15, and his family were forced, to relocate to a Nazi death camp during WWII. In 1945 he and two of his sister were freed from Auschwitz.
Night is a book written by the author and nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel. It is not a fictions book, but it is a life story. In the book, the people are not characters, but true people whom our author met and knew during this time. Elie Wiesel was alive during the Holocaust as a Jew forced to live in ghetto. The book is told from his perspective, and tells what happens at the largest concentration camp, auschwitz.
Night is a nonfiction book about Elie Wiesel, who shares his life when he was in a concentration camp. Before I read this book, I didn’t know about much about the Holocaust other than Natiz took Jews to concentration camps. After reading this book I learned; Natizs would first, take Jews to a camp where families would be separated (women and children would be killed). They would only keep young and healthy men alive to work in the camps. These men were forced to work in harsh environments with little food and awful treatment from the Nazis.
Elie Wiesel is a jewish author of the book “Night” where he was the main character in the story. Elie was born in september 30,1928,in sighet Romania. He died at his home in New York city on July 2,2016,he was 87 when he died. Second,let us talk about the holocaust that Elie went through. The age the Elie came to his first camp,which was auschwitz,was 15 years old.
The holocaust was one of, if not the, worst events in history, German soldiers killed six million Jewish men, women, and children, and even more were put into concentration camps. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the time he served in concentration camps called Night. (simple) During his time in the camps he suffered many tragedies including losing his entire family. He was beaten, tested over and over for many months, and he was filled with trepidation, yet he kept going through it all.
The world, hate, and religion. How the Holocaust brings this altogether. Like a child we trust and believe in what we are told. We are excited to learn more. In this book called Night Elie Wiesel was excited to learn more about his religion and the study of Kubbalah.
Elie Wiesel's Night Famous author, Elie Wiesel in his novel. “Night”, claims that he and his family were abused and, mistreated just like many other Jewish families during WWII. He develops his claim by first explaining how he and his family were forced into hiding, then by explaining the events of when his family was caught escaping the country, then by describing life at Auschwitz, and finally by connecting to the reader by using pathos to form a bond between the author's loss. Wiesel’s purpose is to inform the reader and ultimately the world of how badly the Jewish community was treated in that time in order to ensure that such events never happen to not only the jews but any and all religious or ethnic groups. He adopts an informative
Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust. Weisel shares how it all started and talks about how his life changed drastically in a matter of a few years. He takes his readers with him on his long, haunting and treacherous journey of the Holocaust. He talks about the many different aspects of the Holocaust, such as the selection process, life in the ghetto’s, his loss of faith in God, and the ways that the people in the camps were treated. The inhumane things that occurred within this time are also talked about in Night.
(Biography.com Editors). He was later sent to Buchenwald with his father, who died before the camp could be liberated in 1945. (Elie Weisel Foundation). After the horrific events of the Holocaust, Elie decided to study in Paris and become a journalist. (Elie Weisel Foundation).
Night is an account of a young Jewish boy’s experience during the Holocaust, who is on a quest to survive, despite his weaknesses. He overcomes a period of darkness to see light again. The book summarizes the horror of the kid -a witness to the death of his family and friends, innocence and holiness. As Elie Wiesel struggles to move on with his life, along with his father and the other captives, he is desperate to find hope in the life or death situation. Elie Wiesel was settled in Sighet, a little town in Transylvania, together with his parents and three other sisters in 1941.
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet Romania on September 30th 1928 to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Wiesel has three sisters two older, Hilda and Bea and one younger, Tsiporah. His town of Sighet was a small Jewish town often called a shetetl that was in the Transylvanian part of Romania. Here he lived until he was fifteen when he and his family were taken by the Germans. Wiesels childhood in Sighet was a generally happy one, it was a strong community that taught him to care for others and to commit to Judaism absolutely.
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 1928. The third of four children and the only son. He was educated in Jewish sacred texts. He was taken with his family along with other Jewish prisoners’ military, and they moved to Buchenwald on a forced march of death. Buchenwald was liberated on April 11, 1945, by the United States Army.
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in the city called Sighet in Transylvania, which is presently a part of Romania. He had three sisters, two older and one younger, and a father and mother. His two older sisters are Hilda and Beatrice, and his younger is Tzipora. Elie and his family were very religious jews. Their life was busy with their jewish studies and owning a shop that provides for their needs.