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Assignment Number 1; The Preface of //Night//
Elie Wiesel wrote his novel //Night//, a memoir on his experience in Auschwitz, based off the first copy written in Yiddish “And the World Remained Silent”. The Yiddish version was written to keep him from going crazy, to leave his legacy of words and memories, and what he experienced as a kid about the world of death and evil at a limited base of knowledge. Some say he survived to write this novel and that it was a miracle. But truly, Wiesel himself said that he didn’t do anything to save his weak and shy life. Wiesel was worried that the readers wouldn’t get what he was saying and that his first write of the book was to brutal. “And the World Remained Silent” was translated by his wife and he thought that everyone would appreciate her work and her religious editing. As he reread it for the first time, Elie still wonders if he used the right words in explaining everything that went on at Auschwitz. Even though //Night// was translated 45 years after it was first written, it still inspires people and tells the great story of a Holocaust survivor. Even though Wiesel doesn’t know if there is a response to Auschwitz, he does know that the key word to what happened in this situation is responsibility.



Ghettos
Ghettos Terrifying and closed-up Horrifying, petrifying, and unnerving As haunting as Halloween and as hair-raising as getting shocked A prison cell for innocent humans Excruciating Within the cities around Europe

Moishe the Beadle Told me what had happened to him. He went from one Jewish home to the next, Telling his story. They refussed to listen.

The Synagogues no longer opened. The Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish Community. Jew were prohibited from leaving their residences. Hungarian Police burst into every Jewish home. Every Jew had to wear the yellow star.

And then one word: Transports. We are being taken somewhere in Hungary to work in factories. Tomorrow you will be expelled. You and your family, and all the other Jews.

All the Jews outside! Hurry! The time has come. You must leave all this... By ten o'clock, everyone was outside. They began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens, the tombstones...

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