Elie Wiesel

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. When was Elie Wiesel born?September 30, 1928
2. When did Elie Wiesel die?July 2, 2016 (age 87)
3. Where was Elie Wiesel born?Sighet, Kingdom of Romania (now Sighetu Marmației, Romania)
4. What is the career?Holocaust survivor, writer, professor of humanities at Boston University, human rights activist
5. Who was Elie Wiesel?Elie Wiesel was a brave writer from Romania who survived the Holocaust and wrote about his experiences to help people remember and learn from that terrible time.
6. What is the book "Night" about?"Night" is a memoir that tells the story of Elie Wiesel’s time in Auschwitz, describing the loss of faith, the suffering he saw, and his struggle to survive.

Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II.
Auschwitz-Birkenau: The largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where over a million people, primarily Jews, were murdered.
Survivor's Guilt: A form of PTSD where individuals feel guilty for surviving a traumatic event when others did not.
Indifference: A lack of interest, concern, or sympathy; the failure to act or speak out against injustice.