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Elie Wiesel � Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist � Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania � Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide.

Night � Night, an unadorned recreation of events central to Elie Wiesel's separation from his parents and sisters, offers the reader a significant commentary on a single family's disappearance into the bloodthirsty jaws of Hitler's monstrous war machine. � The inevitability of death and despair produces a paradox: a heart-rendingly pathetic isolation of a young Jew from his relatives and from his belief in God, and a thrilling last-minute rescue of one of America's most beloved humanitarians from multiple onslaughts of sickness, hunger, fatigue, and emotional trauma.

Cont…. . � Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.

Definition of Anti Semitism � Anti-Semitism refers to prejudice and/or discrimination against Jews as individuals and as a group. Anti-Semitism is based on stereotypes and myths that target Jews as a people, their religious practices and beliefs, and the Jewish State of Israel. � Historically, what began as a conflict over religious beliefs evolved into a systematic policy of political, economic, and social isolation; exclusion, degradation and attempted annihilation. It did not begin in the Nazi era, nor did it end with the close of World War II. Its continuance over the millennia speaks to the power of scapegoating 1 a group that is defined as the “other. ”

Traits of Anti Semitism � In the book Night the author uses anti. Semitism because the Nazis make the Jews put stars on their clothing so you can tell them apart from the other people. � The Nazis make the Jews move to ghettos. � When they line the Jews up to move them to ghettos, the Nazis are all in the Jews stores and braking their things they own , they made people give up their things they love. � The Nazis give the Jews not much food to eat.

� They Make the Jews work and some are so weak they cant take it. � Babies are being used as gun targets for the Nazis. � If the Jews are not strong enough to work and do their job they are shot and killed. � If you were not a Jew and you tried to help a Jew you would be killed on the spot.

Crux Anti-Semitism has been used to show the struggle of the Jewish community during the Holocaust that took many lives just because they were not the race that Hitler believed in.