Wiesel did not learn until after the war that his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, also survived. After receiving medical treatment, Wiesel went to France with other orphans but he remained stateless. He stayed in France, living first in Normandy and later in Paris working as a tutor and translator.
He eventually began writing for various French and Jewish publications. But Wiesel vowed not to write about his experiences at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald because he doubted his ability to accurately convey the horror. The result was Night , the story of a teenage boy who survived the camps and was devastated by the realization that the God he once worshiped had allowed his people to be destroyed. He pared this manuscript down to an intense first-person account of his experiences.
It was published in , and the English edition was published in Night is written in a taut, spare style. Since the publication of Night , Wiesel has written more than 40 books. He became an American citizen in His wife has edited and translated many of his works. They have a son, Shlomo Elisha, born in His book Night has been translated into over 30 languages and has sold millions of copies eventually leading up to number one on the New York Times bestseller list in Elie grew up with his mother, father, and three sisters in the town of Sighet.
In May of that year, the Hungarian police transferred all of the Jewish people in their town to Auschwitz concentration camp. Immediately after the Wiesel family arrived at Auschwitz, Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters.
He never his mother and one sister again and then found out years later that his mother and youngest sister were killed in the gas chambers at the concentration camp. In , he and his family were deported to Auschwitz.
Only he and two of his three sisters survived the Holocaust. After World War II , Wiesel became a journalist, prolific author, professor, and human rights activist. In , he became the Andrew W. Wiesel advocated tirelessly for remembering about and learning from the Holocaust.
His own experience of genocide drove him to speak out on behalf of oppressed people throughout the world. The Nobel Committee awarded him the peace prize "for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity.
In March , Nazi Germany occupied its ally Hungary. Between May 15 and July 9, , Hungarian officials in cooperation with German authorities deported nearly , Jews primarily to Auschwitz, where most were killed.
Among the first to be deported were the Jews of Sighet, including Wiesel, his parents, and his three sisters. He was 15 years old. The Wiesel family was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau , which served as both a concentration camp and a killing center. His two older sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, were selected for forced labor and survived the war. Wiesel and his father Shlomo were also selected for forced labor. He and his father were later transported from Auschwitz to Buchenwald , where his father died.
After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and eventually became a journalist there. For almost a decade, he remained silent about what he had endured as an inmate in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps.
He subsequently wrote La Nuit Night. Since its publication in , La Nuit Night has been translated into 30 languages and millions of copies have been sold. In Night , Wiesel writes about his experiences at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Among other things, he describes:. In addition, Wiesel describes the mental and physical anguish he and his fellow prisoners experienced as they were stripped of their humanity by the brutal camp conditions. He also writes about his spiritual struggles and crisis of faith. Wiesel, who grew up with three sisters and pursued religious studies at a nearby yeshiva, was influenced by the traditional spiritual beliefs of his grandfather and mother, as well as his father's liberal expressions of Judaism.
In , Hungary annexed Sighet and the Wiesels were among the Jewish families forced to live in ghettoes. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews.
Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz III-Monowitz, with his father where they were forced to work under deplorable, inhumane conditions. They were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Elie was freed from Buchenwald in Of his relatives, only he and his older sisters Beatrice and Hilda survived.
Wiesel went on to study at the Sorbonne in France from and took up journalism, writing for French and Israeli publications. The book was shortened and published in France as La Nuit , and as Night for English readers in The memoir eventually became an acclaimed bestseller, translated into many languages, and is considered a seminal work on the terrors of the Holocaust.
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