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Background
During 1941, Ion Antonescu, the head of the Romanian
government, ordered all Romanian Jews including those in Southern
Transylvania expelled from their villages and towns. During the expulsion,
the authorities found that the large cities where they had planned to station
the Jews were not suitable.
During 1942, southern Transylvanian Jewish leaders traveled to Bucharest to
enlist the help of Romanian Jewish leader Wilhelm Filderman.
During 1943, the situation of the Jewish people improve a little bit.
During 1944, they were able to rescue thousand of Jewish from Northern
Transylvania and Hungary, where Jews were being arrested and deported.
The circumstances of the Jews of Southern Transylvania changed in
September 1944, soon after the Romanian army surrendered to the Soviets.
The Hungarian army occupied an area along the northern border of Southern
Transylvania. Most Jews fled the region, but the Hungarians murdered any
they could find. The area was liberated that month, but when the Romanian
army reoccupied most of Southern Transylvania, no Jews were left.

Map of the place

Transylvania

Sighet

Information about Elie Wiesel

He was born in Sighet, a little town in Transylvania now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramures, Kingdom of Romania, in the Carpatian Mountains, his parents was Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Sarah was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vishnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Shlomo was an Orthodox Jew of Hungarian descent, and a shopkeeper who ran his own grocery store. He was active and trusted within the community, and had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and were hungry in the early years of his life. It was Shlomo who instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Modern Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study Torah and Kabbalah. Elie Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother faith. Elie Wiesel had three sisters: Hilda and Beatrice, who were older than he, and Tzipora, who was the youngest in the family. Bea and Hilda also survived the war and eventually emigrated to North America; in Bea's case, to Montréal, Canada. Tzipora, Shlomo and Sarah did not survive the war.

In 1940 Romania lost the town of Sighet following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944 Elie, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Elie and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities deported the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz-Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, his inmate number, "A-7713", was tattooed onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to have died at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna-Werke, a subcamp of Aushwitz III Monowitz. He managed to remain with his father for a year as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between three concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald, Wiesel's father died from dysentery, starvation and exhaustion, and later was sent to the crematorium, only months before the camp was liberated by the American Third Army on April 11.

After the war, Wiesel was placed in a French orphanage, where he learned French and was reunited with his older sisters, Hilda and Bea, who had also survived the war. In 1948 he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including Tsien in Kamf and L´arche. However, for ten years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to describe his experiences. However, a meeting with Francois Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to write about his experiences. Wiesel first wrote the 245-page memoir Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent), in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, and it was published as the 127-page autobiography La Nuit, and later translated into English as Night. Even with Mauriac's support, Wiesel had trouble finding a publisher for his book, and initially it sold few copies.

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I think this part of the novel is interesting because Elie began describing the place where does he used to live his familli and all the bad things that the germans do to the Jewish people.

I think the option to kill the Jewish is bad because this persons didn't do nothing to the germans the way that the soldiers treated the Jewish is not good.

In some films that I watched about this theme said that some german civils things that the things that the soldiers do to Jewish peolple are not fair because they are persons like us with all the obligations and rights like us even the Jewish people work more harder that the other people because they think about the situations that his compatriots live in the Holocaust and there the germans punished if they don´t work and after that the Jewish work more harder but after the war they work harder because all that race was very poor but after the war the work harder and harder and the are rich.

In the part of the book that they pray I think is a good manner to forgot about all the bad things that they were living on that days. The human create religion because in some cases they need to believe in something and that they think that god will help them I think this way of thinking is good if I were in a war I will do the same.

I think this book makes you reflexionate about the ingustice that the man do and the do to persons like them. The racism is bad I don´t understand why people discriminate people because the believe in a differet god or the color of his skin.

I hope that some day this situation ends.