How does this quotation reflect what happened to Elie Wiesel during his time spent in the Nazi death camps? Use textual evidence from Night to support your answer. Explain the meaning of the quotation within the painting. Look at the painting entitled Indifference.In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel continued to write over the years, becoming one of the most prominent voices among Holocaust survivors.
However, Night was well-reviewed and would later go on to sell over ten million copies. It was ten years before Wiesel could write his memoir about his experiences within the concentration camps, and then he struggled to get it published the world was not ready to hear about the atrocities of Hitler’s Final Solution. He lost his father on Janubut managed to stay alive and was liberated by the American army on April 11, 1945. His mother and younger sister both perished at Auschwitz, while Wiesel and his father remained together through several camp transfers within Auschwitz and a death-march evacuation from Auschwitz III, the Monowitz-Buna camp, to Buchenwald. He was just fifteen years old when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in a cattle car. Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania in 1928, and raised in the Jewish faith. Published in English in 1960, Elie Wiesel’s Night is an autobiographical account of his experience in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1944-1945.
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