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Elie Wiesel named is book night, as he wanted to tell the world that these were the most darkest and most painful times of his life. He picked night as a metaphor for how he felt. After what he went through he probably felt alone, scared, anrgy, and frustrated. So he wanted to compare that to nightime, where it's dark, and scary

Born September 30, 1928,

Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family, religious study, community and God. Yet his family, community and his innocent faith were destroyed upon the deportation of his village in 1944.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. **Never.** And after writing this poem Elie Wiesel devoted his life to letting people know of what happend to the jews.
 * A poem writen by elie wiesel!**

Wiesel survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz. After the liberation of the camps in April 1945, Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage and in 1948 began to study in Paris at the Sorbonne. He became involved in journalistic work with the French newspaper L'arche. He was acquainted with Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac, who eventually influenced Wiesel to break his vowed silence and write of his experience in the concentration camps, then begining a lifetime of services.

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.



Let us remember, let us remember the heroes of Warsaw, the martyrs of Treblinka, the children of Auschwitz. They fought alone, they suffered alone, they lived alone, but they did not die alone, for something in all of us died with them.
 * Another poem by Elie Wiesel**


 * __Ellie's Timeline__**

1928-- born in sighet Romania 1944-Deported to aushwitz jan. 1945- Father dies in buchenwald apr.1945- Liberated from concentration camp 1948-Moved to paris to study at the sorbonne 1948- Work in Journalism begins 1956- Hit by a car in New york 1958- Night was published 1963- Receives u.s. Citizenship 1964- Returned to sighet 1965- First trip to Russia 1966- Published Jews of slience 1969- Married Marion 1972- Son is born 1978- appointed chair of president commission on the holocaust 1980- commission renamed u.s. holocaust memorial councli 1985- Awarded congressional gold medal of acheivement 1986- Awarded nobel peace prize 1995- Published memories

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·  “When we had left our homes? And the ghetto? And the train? Only a week ago? One night? One single night?” Ellie tells us in this quote that so much can happen, in a very short period of time. One’s life can change dramatically. Ellie he lost his mother and sisters presumable to the crematorium. He lost everything from his possessions to his body hair. He lost his hope in the world. =====

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·  “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp that turned my life into the long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke, never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky,” =====

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·  “Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and now the last night in buno, how much longer were our lives to be dragged from one ‘last night to another. ” =====