Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, was deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist.Along with writing, he was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes, and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In his political activities, he also
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It really makes one question how much would it take to destroy one's own faith? How bad would it have to get for one to give up the foundation of their being?Another way of thinking about this question is to consider why the author wrote this book. Consider his response in the introduction to the latest translation:”The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.”What better way to honour such an amazing survivor than by learning the sad and dark lesson of humanity's capacity to commit atrocities and ensure that such events do not happen again. So in the end, Night is a frightening book because it illuminates the evil that is hiding inside humankind. It is a book about selfishness, greed, corruption, and indifference to the suffering of others.The biggest and most monumental lesson we can learn from this book today is to never turn a blind eye. Speak up. Help. Resist. When evil rears its ugly head, it is up to the rest of us to fight it back, lest it continue to grow and spread like Hitler's did.Community service, world knowledge and empowerment need to be combined daily to ensure that these horrible crimes on a local and national and global scale are never allowed to
It really makes one question how much would it take to destroy one's own faith? How bad would it have to get for one to give up the foundation of their being?Another way of thinking about this question is to consider why the author wrote this book. Consider his response in the introduction to the latest translation:”The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.”What better way to honour such an amazing survivor than by learning the sad and dark lesson of humanity's capacity to commit atrocities and ensure that such events do not happen again. So in the end, Night is a frightening book because it illuminates the evil that is hiding inside humankind. It is a book about selfishness, greed, corruption, and indifference to the suffering of others.The biggest and most monumental lesson we can learn from this book today is to never turn a blind eye. Speak up. Help. Resist. When evil rears its ugly head, it is up to the rest of us to fight it back, lest it continue to grow and spread like Hitler's did.Community service, world knowledge and empowerment need to be combined daily to ensure that these horrible crimes on a local and national and global scale are never allowed to