Introduction to Night

• 1928: Elie Wiesel is born in Sighet, Transylvania (Romania)

• A bird’s eye view of Sighet, pre-War

Timeline

• 1928: Elie Wiesel is born on September, 30.• 1933: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of

Germany.• 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws against the Jews.• 1938: Kristallnacht: Government-organized

pogrom against the Jews (Germany, Austria, parts of Czechoslovakia).

• 1940: Romania ceded Northern Transylvania (includes Sighet) to Hungary.

Timeline, continued.

• 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.• 1942: Wannsee Conference- All state, Nazi, and SS

Agencies are on board with the “Final Solution”.• 1944: Germany occupies Hungary. Elie Wiesel and

his family are deported to Auschwitz. • 1945: Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz on January

27th.

– Elie and his father were transferred to Buchenwald days before.

– Buchenwald is liberated in April 1945.

NPR Clip: Elie Wiesel

• http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=89357808&m=89441541

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