I will hear that voice for the rest of my life, and hope and pray that I will continue to earn the unconditional love and trust he always showed me. Equality Our mission is to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogues and youth focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality. Tell a friend:. Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. In , he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wiesel was born on September 30, , in Sighet , Transylvania Romania , from — part of Hungary. In , he and his family were deported to Auschwitz. Only he and two of his three sisters survived the Holocaust. After World War II , Wiesel became a journalist, prolific author, professor, and human rights activist.
In , he became the Andrew W. Wiesel advocated tirelessly for remembering about and learning from the Holocaust. His own experience of genocide drove him to speak out on behalf of oppressed people throughout the world. The Nobel Committee awarded him the peace prize "for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity. In March , Nazi Germany occupied its ally Hungary. Between May 15 and July 9, , Hungarian officials in cooperation with German authorities deported nearly , Jews primarily to Auschwitz, where most were killed.
Among the first to be deported were the Jews of Sighet, including Wiesel, his parents, and his three sisters. He was 15 years old.
The Wiesel family was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau , which served as both a concentration camp and a killing center. His two older sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, were selected for forced labor and survived the war. Wiesel and his father Shlomo were also selected for forced labor. He and his father were later transported from Auschwitz to Buchenwald , where his father died.
After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and eventually became a journalist there. For almost a decade, he remained silent about what he had endured as an inmate in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps. He subsequently wrote La Nuit Night. Since its publication in , La Nuit Night has been translated into 30 languages and millions of copies have been sold.
In Night , Wiesel writes about his experiences at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Among other things, he describes:. In addition, Wiesel describes the mental and physical anguish he and his fellow prisoners experienced as they were stripped of their humanity by the brutal camp conditions.
He also writes about his spiritual struggles and crisis of faith. Wiesel was a prolific writer and thinker. In addition to Night , he wrote more than 40 books for which he received a number of literary awards, including:. His writings also include a memoir written in two volumes. The first volume is entitled All Rivers Run to the Sea The second is entitled And the Sea is Never Full In , Wiesel became the founding president of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures, a human rights organization.
The Nazis massacre the rest. The first death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins operations. Germany, as an ally of Japan, declares war on the United States immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. March: About 20 to 25 percent of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust have already perished.
The ghettos of Eastern Europe are emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps. February: About 80 to 85 percent of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust have already perished. It takes nearly a month for the Nazis to put down the Uprising. January: As the Russian army pushes west, the Nazis begin to evacuate death camps, including Auschwitz. April: American forces liberate the prisoners in Buchenwald.
About one-third of all the Jews in the world have been murdered and the survivors are homeless. Aryan—In Nazi ideology, the pure, superior Germanic race. Austerlitz—Parisian railroad station for eastbound trains. Austerlitz was the name of a Czech city. Established in as a concentration camp, it became an extermination camp in early Farben labor camp, also known as Buna.
In addition, Auschwitz had numerous sub-camps. Babylonian captivity—Babylonians destroyed the first temple in Jerusalem in B. Cabbala—Jewish mysticism, including numerology. Before then, only Jews who fit one of the earlier categories were interned in camps. The first three concentration camps established were Dachau near Munich , Buchenwald near Weimar and Sachsenhausen near Berlin.
The term was also used for concentration camps where thousands died of starvation and disease. These units were supported by units of the uniformed German Order Police and auxiliaries of volunteers Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian.
Their victims, primarily Jews, were executed by shooting and were buried in mass graves from which they were later exhumed and burned. At least a million Jews were killed in this manner. Roosevelt in July to discuss the problem of refugees. Thirtytwo countries met at Evian-les-Bains, France.
However, not much was accomplished, since most western countries were reluctant to accept Jewish refugees. The program was deceptively disguised as "resettlement in the East. The first exclusively Jewish ghetto was in Venice in Hasidism—Movement of Orthodox Judaism with strong mystical and emotional elements. When his coup, known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch," failed, Hitler was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
It was during this time that he wrote Mein Kampf. Serving only 9 months of his sentence, Hitler quickly reentered German politics and soon outpolled his political rivals in national elections. Hitler, who took office on January 30, , immediately set up a dictatorship. Soon, all other parties were outlawed and opposition was brutally suppressed.
On September 1, , Hitler's armies invaded Poland. By this time the western democracies realized that no agreement with Hitler could be honored and World War II had begun. Although the war was obviously lost by early , Hitler insisted that Germany fight to the death. Horthy, Admiral Miklos —Regent of Hungary, , who was forced by the Nazis to relinquish power to the Nylias Hungarian Fascist party after Nazi invasion.
Job—Biblical figure who has come to symbolize suffering. Kaddish—A prayer in Aramaic praising God. Throughout Germany and Austria, synagogues and other Jewish institutions were burned, Jewish stores were destroyed, and their contents looted.
At the same time, approximately 35, Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. The "excuse" for this action was the assassination of Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a Jewish teenager whose parents had been rounded up by the Nazis.
Mengele, Dr. Josef —Auschwitz physician notorious for so-called medical experiments performed on inmates, especially twins and dwarves. Messiah—Greek translation of Hebrew Mashiach, the anointed one. In this book, Hitler propounds his ideas, beliefs, and plans for the future of Germany. Everything, including his foreign policy, is permeated by his "racial ideology. Throughout, he accuses Jews of being the source of all evil, equating them with Bolshevism and, at the same time, with international capitalism.
Unfortunately, those people who read the book except for his admirers did not take it seriously but considered it the ravings of a maniac. Musulman—German for Muslim. Camp slang for a prisoner who is too weak to walk, work, or stand, and therefore marked for death. Nyilas party—Hungarian for Arrow Cross, a fascist anti-Semitic party which assumed power in late and assisted the SS in deportations of Jews.
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