Elie Wiesel
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ELIE WIESEL
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BASIC INFORMATION
- Elie was born on September 30,1928
- He was born in Signet, Transylvania
- He grew up with 3 sisters
- pursued religious studies at a nearby yeshiva
- He was influenced by the traditional beliefs of his grandfather
THE HOLOCAUST
- Entire family was sent to Auschwitz (part of holocaust)
- The holocaust took over 6 million lives of Jews
- Was freed from Buchenwald in 1945
- Out of all his relatives only his two sisters survived
AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
- Lived in a French orphanage for a few years
- Found out his little sister and mother died
- Started to study literature,philosophy,& physiology
- Started studies at Sorbonne in Paris
BEGINNING WRITING CAREER
- Wrote for the French newspaper "L'arche"
- Vowed to never write about his holocaust experiences
- meeting with French novelist and Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac
- In 1955 he decided to write
- The book was originally written in Yiddish
AFTER BOOKS
- In 1956 Eli Wiesel was hit by a taxi
- Was confined to a wheelchair for almost a year
- Applied for American citizenship after recovery
- He wrote an additional 35 works in fench
SIGNIFICANCE
- He is the author of the book night, we will read
- He lived through the holocaust
- He knows from his own experience what it was really like
- He can tell the complete truth
