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Summary:
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an astonishing true story about a jewish concentration camp survivor. In his book,
Elie talks about his life before and during the hollocaust. The author recalls his experienecs in Birkenau and Auschwitz.
His tale of faith and perseverance is a story one will not soon forget.
Biography:
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He had two older sisters and a younger sister
named Tzipora. In 1945 Elie was moved to the concentration camps at Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. He managed to stay with
his father the entire time until his father's death from dysentery, starvation, exposure, and exhaustion at Buchenwald. Finally,
in April 1945, Elie was liberated from Buchenwald by the United States Third Army. After the war, Elie learned that his mother
and younger sister had died in the gas chambers, but that his two older sisters had survived. Elie lived in a French orphanage
for a few years and in 1948 began to study literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris.In 1956 Elie Wiesel
was hit by a taxicab in New York and confined to a wheel chair for almost a year. In 1986 Wiesel received the Nobel Prize
for Peace. Currently, Elie Wiesel lives in New York City with his wife and son Elisha.
Source: http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_elie_wiesel.html
Links to other Night and hollocaust sites on the net:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/jubo/wiesel.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Hangar/1544/
http://www1.us.nizkor.org/bibliographies/elie-wiesel.html
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0pro-1
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