Shlomo Wiesel, was born in Sighet, .
He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice .
Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including .
Hungarian, Romanian, German and he grew up speaking Yiddish. .
When World War II had just started, Elie was not really affected by it. In 1944, .
when Elie was fifteen years old, him, his parents and younger sister were taken to .
Auschwitz. There him and his father were separated from his mother and small sister. .
Within a year his father and him had been moved to several different concentration .
camps such as Buna, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He tried his best to stay with .
his father every time they were moved. His father and him watched out for each other, .
till his father's death in 1945. The United States Third Army finally freed Elie Wiesel .
and the other survivors on April 1945. Once the war had ended, Elie found out that both .
his mother and sister had died in the gas chambers. His two older sisters had survived. .
He spends a few years in an orphanage, and then in 1948 he began to write for the .
newspaper L" Arche. Even though Elie experienced a lot he promised to never write .
about anything he had gone through. This changed in 1955 when he met French Catholic .
novelist, Francois Mauriac. After meeting with him he wrote "And the World Remained .
Silent" a 900-page novel that later became compressed to a 127-page novel named "La .
Nuit" (Night).
Elie Wiesel has written many novels, most of them related to the Holocaust. He .
gets a lot of support from his wife. .
Does anyone have the right to kill other human beings just because they are from .
a different religion? Apparently Hitler felt he did, he send his men to take every Jew, .
make them suffer till they died and overworked the strong ones until they died.
Setting.
The setting of the novel starts in 1941 in Sighet, Transylvania. Young Elie is wants to .
learn Talmud and the Cabbala.
