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Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, describes in his book Night (1960) how he and his father, Shlomo, were forced on a death march from Buna (Auschwitz III) to Gleiwitz. [10]
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel, (Nobel Peace Prize, 1986) Stefan Jerzy Zweig [10] [11] The Buchenwald Resistance is referred to in the last chapter of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, with specific description of the moment in which Wiesel is saved: The resistance movement decided at that point to act. Armed men appeared from everywhere. Bursts of gunshots. Grenades ...
On 1 November 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed an Executive Order establishing the President's Commission on the Holocaust, to be chaired by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. [4] Its mandate was to investigate the creation and maintenance of a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and an appropriate annual commemoration in their memory.
One of the few prisoners who escaped from the camp, the Belgian Edmond Vandievoet, recounted his experiences in a book whose English title is "I escaped from a Nazi Death Camp" [Editions Jourdan, 2015]. In his work Night, Elie Wiesel talks about his stay in Buchenwald, including his father's death. [55]
Primo Levi, Victor Perez, Elie Wiesel, Fritz Löhner-Beda Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna , Buna and Auschwitz III ) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp ( Arbeitslager ) run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust . [ 2 ]
Al-Lail ("Night" or "The Night"), the ninety-second sura of the Qur'an; Night, a 1956 (Yiddish), 1960 (English) book by Elie Wiesel; Night (O'Brien novel), a 1972 novel by Edna O'Brien; Night, a 1969 short play by Harold Pinter "Night" (poem), a poem by Robert Blake poem from the 1789 collection Songs of Innocence