Night
By Elie Wiesel
Elie recived 25 whippes from a Kapo when he caught the young man, having an affair with a young women. The pain only stopped once he passed out.
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
— Elie Wiesel
"bite your lip little brother. Save your anger and hate for another day, for another day... the day will come, not today, but soon... Grit your teeth little brother, bit your lip, the day will come..." Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
"'Where is God now?'"
"'He is hanging in the gallowes right before our eyes." (Night)
"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
— Elie Wiesel (Night)
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Presentation by Gabriela Edman
Now 66 years later Wiesel is still alive, and making sure that we can prevent something like WORLD WAR ll to happen again. Wiesel received many awards because of his human rights, and literary activities. He received numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and soon after. A year later Marion and Elie Wiesel established ‘The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity’. He now lives with his wife in Connecticut.
Elie was one of the few to survive the march to Benchenwald along with his father, but a few weeks later his father fell ill, and eventually died. A few weeks after Elie's fathers death, on April 11, 1945, American tanks arrive at Buchenwald, finaly he was free from the German army, but he was alone in the world without anything or anyone, only the horrific stories of being in the concetration camp, and how it had taken everything away from him, including his faith in god. .
Kappos would hang Jews weekly when they weren't able to continue with the schedule the concetration camp offered.
One night a young boy was hung because his father had commited a crime and he was punished with his life as well.
Elie was assigned to the construction section of the camp in Buna. His day required lots of physical strength, and he was allowed little rest.
After the first few weeks of winter in1945, Elie got a foot injury. His doctor told him that we would have to have surgery, or else his whole leg would have to be amputated .
A few Weeks after Elie's surgery the German army decided to move all prisoners away from the Russian army that was advancing foward.
Elie and his father are moved to Buna, where they are borded in small cabins. The cabins were very uncomfortable, the living conditions are harsh and their clothing are not warm enough for the weather conditions.
Elie grew up in Sighet, Transylvania, a small Jewish community. He was the second to youngest out of four children.
All Jewsish citizens were shoved into cattle cars, the Jews were treated like livestalk. They were offered no food or water during their two day journey, the journey was painful, yet it was only their beggining of their hell-on-Earth expirience.
The prisoners were served little food after long days of harsh physical work. Their menue would consist of soup, stale bread, and water.
When the Jewish citizens arrive they are seperated into female and male groups, Elie is seperated from his mother and his sisters.
Elie was only 15 when he was taken from his home and taken to Auschwitz. He was a very religious and well educated young man.
Finaly Elie and his father were permitted into the concetration camp.
