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Night By Eli Wiesel. Eli Wiesel. Born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania) Two older sisters; one younger Deported to Auschwitz in 1944 (15 years old). http://www.transylvania.info/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9995&g2_serialNumber=3. Eli Wiesel. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Night
By Eli Wiesel
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Eli Wiesel• Born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania)
• Two older sisters; one younger
• Deported to Auschwitz in 1944 (15 years old)
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Eli Wiesel• Survives camp and moves to France
• Moves to New York in 1955
• Writes his WWII autobiography in 1960
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Eli Wiesel• Wins Congressional Medal of Honor in 1985
• Wins Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
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THEMES
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THEMES• Silence
• Darkness (Supposed Absence of God)
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MOTIFS
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MOTIFS• Tradition
• Faith (or lack thereof)
• Survival
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VOCAB
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VOCAB• CABBALA –
Jewish mysticism (includes numerology)
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VOCAB• GHETTO – confinement to a particular area of a city
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VOCAB• GESTAPO – German Secret State Police
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VOCAB• KAPO – concentration camp prisoners made to oversee other prisoners
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VOCAB• S.S (“Schutz-Staffel”)
Elite Nazi guards; sometimes called Hitler’s bodyguards
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Indifference to evil is evil.
-Elie Wiesel
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Works Cited“Elie Wiesel Biography.” Elie Wiesel
Foundation for Humanity. 2010.
Web. 30 Nov 2010.