night by elie wiesel
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A nonfiction journey of evil and unspeakable horror that should never occur again.
Night traces Eliezer’s psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite many tests of his humanity, however, Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. His story—which parallels Wiesel’s own biography—is intensely personal, but it is also representative of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Jewish teenagers.
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- Shylock Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Act III Scene I
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Nonfiction: types
An autobiography is a sketch of the author’s entire life, often from birth up until the time of the writing.
A memoir focuses on one aspect of the writer’s life. Memoirs usually cover a relatively short span of time, and their main purpose is to draw the reader’s attention to a specific theme or circumstance.
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Nonfiction: other types
A biography is the story of a life from another person’s perspective.
An essay is a short nonfiction work that addresses a specific subject.
A speech is a talk or an address presented to an audience.
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Night by Elie Wiesel
Autobiographical, memoir Focus on observation -
describes an event that the writer witnessed firsthand.
Elie Wiesel - Bearing Witness - invites us to listen, and to remember. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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Strategies for Reading Nonfiction
Find the writer’s main points and support.
Ask yourself what the author wants you to learn or think about.
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For Elie Wiesel, darkness and night symbolize a world without God.
Night is always when the suffering is worst, and the presence of darkness reflects Eliezer’s belief that his has become a world without the presence of God.
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Elie Wiesel
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Characters Eliezer - The teenage narrator of Night
Chlomo - Eliezer’s father is named only once, at the end of Night. Shlomo is respected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet, and by his son as well. He and Eliezer desperately try to remain together throughout their concentration camp ordeal.
Moshe the Beadle - Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism.
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Hilda - Eliezer’s oldest sister. Béa - Eliezer’s middle sister. Tzipora - Eliezer’s youngest sister. Madame Schächter - A Jewish
woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer.
Juliek - A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. Juliek reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz.
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Tibi and Yosi - Two brothers with whom Eliezer becomes friendly in Buna.
Dr. Josef Mengele - When he arrives at Auschwitz, Eliezer encounters the historically infamous Dr. Mengele. Mengele was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Known as the “Angel of Death,” Mengele’s words sentenced countless prisoners to death in the gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp.
Idek - Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna
Franek - Eliezer’s foreman at Buna. Franek notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon.
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Setting
Night begins in Sighet, Transylvania.
The setting then changes throughout several concentration camps in Europe.
Auschwitz/Birkenau (Poland) Buna (Poland) Gleiwitz (Poland) And Buchenwald (Germany)
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Background Prewar Jewish European population: 9.5
million Most Jews lived in eastern Europe,
primarily in the Soviet Union and Poland. The Nazi party came to power in
Germany in 1933. The Germans moved to extend their
power in central Europe, annexing Austria and destroying Czechoslovakia.
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Background (2)
Germany invaded Poland in 1939, beginning World War II.
Over the next two years, German forces conquered most of Europe.
The Germans established ghettos in occupied eastern territories, isolating and persecuting the Jewish population.
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Background (3)
Nazi anti-Jewish policy expanded with the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Mobile killing units murdered Jews, Gypsies, Soviet political commissars and others.
The Germans and their collaborators deported Jews to extermination camps in occupied Poland.
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Background (4)
At the largest extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, transports arrived almost daily from across Europe.
By war’s end, almost six million Jews and millions of others had perished in the Holocaust.
Postwar European Jewish Population, ca. 1950: 3.5 million
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Terms to Know
Holocaust Genocide Ghetto Prejudice Discrimination Kapo SS Gestapo
Anti-Semitism Euphemism Death camp Concentration
camp
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Holocaust
Holocaust means “complete destruction by fire” or “sacrifice by fire”
The term is now associated with the murder of more than six million Jewish people during World War II.
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Genocide
Genocide is a word that combines the Greek word “genos” (meaning race, people, or nation) and the ending “cide” (meaning to kill).
Genocide refers to the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
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Ghetto
The confinement of Jews in a set-apart area of the city.
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Prejudice
Prejudice comes from the word “prejudge” (pre-judge, or judge beforehand).
A prejudice is a preconceived opinion or feeling formed without knowledge, thought or reason.
Prejudices are often based on stereotypes.
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Discrimination
Discrimination is when actions are based upon prejudices, stereotypes, and biases.
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Kapo
Camp prisoner forced to oversee other prisoners.
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“Schutz-Staffel” established in 1929 as Hitler’s blackshirted bodyguards. They became the elite guards of the Nazis trained in brutality and put in charge of concentration camps.
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•The secret police organized in 1933 to uncover and undermine political opposition.•German acronym for the German Secret State Police•Part of the SS•Notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state.
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Anti-Semitism
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jewish people.
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Euphemism
A mild or vague term that is substituted for one that is harsh or offensive.
“To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”
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Death camp
Camps dedicated to the efficient murder of Jews and other victims;
Auschwitz-Birkenau The terms was also used for
concentration camps where thousands died of starvation and disease.
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Concentration camp
Camps that were primarily used for slave labor
Holding camps or Transit camps
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Jewish / Biblical terms to know Cabbala Kaddish Passover
Rosh Hashana
Synagogue Talmud Temple Yom Kippur
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Cabbala
Jewish mysticism, including numerology.
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Kaddish
A prayer praising God. The mourner’s Kaddish is said for the dead.
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Passover
Greek word for the celebration of the exodus of Jewish people from Slavery in Egypt.
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Rosh Hashana
Jewish New Year.
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Synagogue
A Jewish house of worship and study.
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Talmud
The most important of the Jewish oral tradition.
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Temple
Holiest place in Judaism, located in Jerusalem. Biblically ordained sacrifices were performed here. Built and destroyed twice.
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Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement. Holiest day of Jewish year. When the Jews fast and pray
for forgiveness of their sins.