The Holocaust and Night The story of Night
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The Holocaust and Night
The story of Night • The novel begins in Sighet, Transylvania. • During the early years of World War II, Sighet remained relatively unaffected by the war. • The Jews in Sighet believed that they would be safe from the persecution that Jews in Germany and Poland
• In 1944, however, Elie and all the other Jews in town were rounded up in cattle cars and deported to concentration camps in Poland. • They were sent to Auschwitz
Former prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks in which they slept three to a "bed. " Elie Wiesel is pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam
• After surviving the Nazi concentration camps, Wiesel vowed never to write about his horrific experiences. • He eventually changed his mind and wrote Night in 1955. Wiesel won the Nobel Prize in 1986
A German police officer examines the identification papers of Jews in the Krakow ghetto, circa 1941.
Jewish people were identified by the triangle and their ID #.
Jews, like all other German citizens, were required to carry identity cards, but their cards were stamped with a red “J. ” This allowed police to easily identify them.
• Most prisoners were emaciated to the point of being skeletal • Many camps had dead bodies lying in piles “like cordwood. ” • Many prisoners died even after liberation.
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