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Former prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks in which they slept three to a "bed." Elie Wiesel is pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam.

Since the publication of Night, Wiesel has written more than 40 books. He became an American citizen in 1963. In 1969, Wiesel married Austrian-born writer and editor Marion Erster Rose, also a survivor of the Holocaust. His wife has edited and translated many of his works.

He insisted that his son study modern Hebrew as well, so that he could read the works of contemporary writers. And at home in Sighet, which was close to the Hungarian border, Wiesel's family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian and Romanian.

Wiesel died on the morning of July 2, 2016, at his home in Manhattan, aged 87. After a private funeral service was conducted in honor of him at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, he was buried at the Sharon Gardens Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, on July 3.

Elie Wiesel—in his own words: “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.” “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

On January 29, 1945, after being beaten by the guards by a truncheon, a baton, Elie's father loses his painful battle with dysentery, a disease that attacks the intestines, leaving Elie with a sense of relief after his passing.

He was being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi concentration camp. When Elie arrived, he was separated from his mother and sisters as men and women were sent to different places. He never saw his mother and little sister, Tzipora, again. Elie and his father were made to do hard work, like slaves.

Elie Wiesel's father is beaten and taunted by the other prisoners in his book "Night" because he is old and weak. In the concentration camp, the prisoners are fighting for survival, and they believe that anyone who cannot keep up with the work will be a burden and will eventually lead to their own demise.

During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived.

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Auschwitz survivor, Nobel laureate, taught at BU since 1976. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a Nobel laureate, and the most powerful witness for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, died Saturday at his home in New York. He was 87 years old.

Eye-Witness and Messenger

The Jewish author, philosopher and humanist Elie Wiesel made it his life's work to bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II. He was the world's leading spokesman on the Holocaust.

Why did Elie give it up? Franek, the foreman, wanted the tooth. When Elie refused, Franek started tormenting Elie's father and, after 2 weeks, Elie gave him the tooth.

The fact that the food is of poor quality, as well as being small and unvaried, is obvious from the fact that Elie refuses his initial portion of soup (a "thick" soup) but "eagerly" eats any kind of soup by the third day.

Franek A former student from Warsaw who plays in the orchestra block and serves as foreman of the electrical warehouse, Franek keeps Elie near his father while they work, then drops his friendly treatment by demanding Elie's gold dental crown.

Night takes place between 1941 and 1945 across Europe. It begins in Sighet, Romania, moves to Auschwitz, Poland in 1944, then across to Buchenwald in Germany in 1945. The novel ends when Elie is liberated from the camp by the US Army.

In Chapter 4 of Elie Wiesel's 1960 memoir, Night, Elie and his father are in Buna, a concentration camp that is a part of Auschwitz. They work in a warehouse where they count electrical parts.

In Night chapter 3, Elie and his family arrive at Auschwitz. They wait for many hours in the cattle cars before the train moves to drop the prisoners off at Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz. The prisoners were separated into two groups: men in one, and women and children in another.

Eliezer spends another two and a half months at Buchenwald. He is transferred to the children's block and no longer thinks or feels anything but the desire to eat.