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Elie Wiesel Timeline and World Events: From 1952

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz and human rights activist who devoted his life to educating the world about the Holocaust. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Browse a timeline of key events in the world and in Wiesel's life from 1952 until his death in 2016.

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Elie Wiesel 1952 After studying at the Sorbonne, Elie Wiesel begins travelling around the world as a reporter for the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot .

1954 During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, Elie is persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps .

1955 Elie Wiesel wrote a nearly 900-page account of his concentration camp years, a shortened version of which was published the next year under the title  Un di velt hot geshvign  (And the World Stayed Silent).

1956 Shortly after moving to New York City to be a permanent correspondent, Elie Wiesel is struck by a taxicab.

1957 Recovered from his injuries but still a stateless person with expired visas, Elie Wiesel naturalizes to the United States.

1958 La Nuit (appearing in 1960 in English translation as Night ) is published, and has since been translated into more than 30 languages.

1961 Dawn is published.

1962 Following his conviction for crimes against the Jewish people, Adolf Eichmann is executed in Jerusalem.

1963 Elie Wiesel becomes an American citizen.

1964 Elie Wiesel returns to Sighet and visits his childhood home.

He receives the Ingram Merill award and publishes The Town Beyond the Wall .

1966 The Gates of the Forest and The Jews of Silence are published.

1968 Legends of our Time , essays and stories, is published. Elie Wiesel wins the Prix Medicis.

1969 Elie Wiesel marries Marion.

1970 A Beggar in Jerusalem and One Generation After are published.

1972 His son, Shlomo Elisha, is born. Elie Wiesel also serves as Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City University of New York (1972–1976).

1973 In Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana comes to power in a military coup.

The Oath is published

1975 Elie Wiesel receives the Jewish Heritage Award, Haifa University, and the Holocaust Memorial Award, New York Society of Clinical Psychologists.

1976 Teaching was always been central to Elie Wiesel's work. Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he also holds the title of University Professor. He is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Religion as well as the Department of Philosophy.

1977 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat makes the first visit by an Arab leader to Israel since the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948.

1978 President Jimmy Carter appoints Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust .

1979 The United States Congress, by unanimous vote, establishes the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

1980 Elie Wiesel receives the Prix Liber Inter, France, the S.Y. Agnon Medal, and the Jabotinsky Medal, State of Israel.

1981 The Testament is published.

1982 Elie Wiesel is the first Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at Yale University (1982–1983).

1984 A symbolic ground breaking ceremony is held at the site of the future United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

1985 President Ronald Reagan presents Elie Wiesel with the US Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement.

1986 In December, Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Prize for Peace. Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, establish The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice.

1988 The United States signs the Genocide Convention.

Twilight , a novel, is published.

1990 From the Kingdom of Memory is published.

1991 Sages and Dreamers, Portraits and Legends from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Hasidic Tradition is published.

1993 Elie Wiesel gives address at the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Museum opens to the public.

In response to the atrocities occurring in Bosnia, the United Nations Security Council issues resolution 827, establishing the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. It is the first international criminal tribunal since Nuremberg .

1994 Extremist leaders of Rwanda’s Hutu majority launch a campaign of extermination against the country’s Tutsi minority. In October, the UN Security Council extends the mandate of the ICTY to include a separate but linked tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), located in Arusha, Tanzania.

1995 All Rivers Run to the Sea is published.

1998 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda issues the world’s first conviction for genocide when Jean-Paul Akayesu is judged guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity for acts he engaged in and oversaw as mayor of the Rwandan town of Taba.

1999 And the Sea is Never Full and King Solomon and his Magic Ring , a book for children, are published.

Elie Wiesel addresses the Days of Remembrance ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC, saying

"How does one mourn for six million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left us without a trace, and we are their trace."

He is granted the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor, France (Commandeur, 1984; Grand Officier, 1990).

2002 President Iliescu of Romania presents Wiesel with "The Star of Romania."

2003 In November Wiesel addresses the Tribute to Holocaust Survivors, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

2004 In July Elie Wiesel delivers remarks “ On the Atrocities in Sudan ” at the Darfur Emergency Summit, convened at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on July 14, 2004, by the American Jewish World Service and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In September US Secretary of State Colin Powell testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "genocide has been committed in Darfur."

Elie Wiesel receives the Commander's Cross from the Republic of Hungary and delivers the Final Report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania. Wiesel was chairman of the commission.

2005 Elie Wiesel receives the Man of the Year award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Light of Truth award from the International Campaign for Tibet, and publishes The Time of the Uprooted , a novel.

2006 Elie Wiesel travels to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey.

2011 The inaugural United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Award is bestowed on Nobel laureate and Founding Museum Chairman Elie Wiesel—and renamed in his honor—for his singular role in establishing and advancing the cause of Holocaust remembrance.

Elie Wiesel died on July 2, 2016, in Manhattan, New York. 

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Elie Wiesel Biography

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small village in northern Transylvania, Romania, an area that was part of Hungary from 1941 to 1945. Wiesel was the only son of four children of Shlomo, a grocer, and his wife, Sarah (Feig) Wiesel. He was devoted to the study of the Torah, the Talmud and the mystical teachings of Hasidism and the Cabala.

The Nazis, led by Adolf Eichmann, entered Hungary in the spring of 1944 with orders to exterminate an estimated 600,000 Jews in under six weeks. Wiesel was 15 years old when the Nazis deported him and his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

His mother and younger sister died in the gas chambers on the night of their arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He and his father were deported to Buchenwald where his father died before the camp was liberated on April 11, 1945. Wiesel did not learn until after the war that his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, also survived.

After receiving medical treatment, Wiesel went to France with other orphans but he remained stateless. He stayed in France, living first in Normandy and later in Paris working as a tutor and translator. He eventually began writing for various French and Jewish publications. But Wiesel vowed not to write about his experiences at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald because he doubted his ability to accurately convey the horror.

Wiesel’s self-imposed silence came to an end in the mid-1950s after he interviewed the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist François Mauriac. Deeply moved by Wiesel’s story, Mauriac urged him to tell the world of his experiences and to “bear witness” for the millions of people who had been silenced. The result was Night , the story of a teenage boy who survived the camps and was devastated by the realization that the God he once worshiped had allowed his people to be destroyed. The Nation’s Daniel Stern has described Night as “undoubtedly the single most powerful literary relic of the Holocaust.”

Night was originally written in Yiddish as an 862-page work called Un die Welt Hot Geshvign (And the World Kept Silent) . He pared this manuscript down to an intense first-person account of his experiences. Wiesel translated the manuscript from Yiddish into French and retitled it La Nuit (Night) . It was published in 1958, and the English edition was published in 1960. Night is written in a taut, spare style. Wiesel’s controlled language allows the events to speak for themselves and is in sharp contrast to the reality about which it speaks.

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. They have a son, Shlomo Elisha, born in 1972. They live in New York.

Since 1976, Wiesel has been the Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities at Boston University, where he also holds the title of university professor. Previously, he served as distinguished professor of Judaic studies at the City University of New York (1972–1976) and the first Henry Luce visiting scholar in humanities and social thought at Yale University (1982–1983).

Wiesel has received numerous awards for his literary and human rights activities. These include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award and the rank of Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor. President Jimmy Carter appointed Wiesel chairman of the United State Holocaust Memorial Council in 1978. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for Peace. Shortly thereafter, Elie Wiesel and his wife established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

Wiesel has defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Argentina’s “disappeared,” Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, South African apartheid victims, famine victims in Africa and more recently the victims and prisoners in the former Yugoslavia.

In presenting the Nobel Peace Prize, Egil Aarvik, chair of the Nobel Committee, said this about Wiesel:

“His mission is not to gain the world’s sympathy for victims or the survivors. His aim is to awaken our conscience. Our indifference to evil makes us partners in the crime. This is the reason for his attack on indifference and his insistence on measures aimed at preventing a new Holocaust. We know that the unimaginable has happened. What are we doing now to prevent its happening again?”

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Elie Wiesel's writings were instrumental in shaping how the world understands the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel Taught the World How to Confront Atrocities

With his death at age 87, “we lost a singular moral voice,” says U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer, and Nobel laureate who died Saturday at age 87 , not only shaped how the world remembers the Holocaust, but how the memory of atrocity can help prevent future tragedies.

Born in Romania in 1928, Wiesel was taken along with his family to the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Wiesel’s mother, sister, and father died in the camps. Wiesel was freed when Buchenwald was liberated in 1945. Ten years later, he wrote about his experience in his book Night .

The book , as well as Wiesel’s subsequent writings and work as an educator, was influential in building the collective post-war memory of the Holocaust. It was a memory that Wiesel infused with lessons on the dangers of indifference.

“I think that Elie believed that the greatest memorial that you could do for the victims would be to save lives in the future and to do so in memory of the victims,” says U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield .

“The Holocaust was a period when the world was silent—the world essentially abandoned the Jews of Europe for the most part,” Bloomfield says. She adds that Wiesel “felt that the fact of his own survival meant that he had to go on and make sure” that the world would not abandon any other groups faced with a similar horror.

For his work, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

"Only human beings can move me to despair," Wiesel told National Geographic in 2006 . "But only human beings can remove me from despair."

Bloomfield spoke to National Geographic about Wiesel, whom she calls “a singular moral voice, [and] a man of great intellect and eloquence who lent his own very powerful voice to people who had been silenced forever.”

How did Wiesel’s writing and work in education enhance the memory and understanding of the Holocaust?

When Night was published in 1955, that was really a watershed moment. It was at a time when the Holocaust really hadn’t penetrated public consciousness the way it has today. I think you can attribute much of the global movement for Holocaust memory to the publication of Night and to Elie’s other writings to bring it to the forefront of not only awareness but of our moral conscience. He wanted to prick the moral conscience as much as possible.

President Barack Obama and Elie Wiesel light candles at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2012.

That memory seems essential not only in helping people understand, but in preventing something like the Holocaust from ever happening again.

When he talked about the museum, he envisioned it as a living memorial that would speak as much to the future as it did to the past. Elie often said, “My life is devoted to making sure no one else’s future would be like my past.” He felt also that the museum’s position here in Washington, D.C., was so important because the lessons of the Holocaust speak very powerfully in this particular city, because these are lessons about the fragility of freedom, the dangers of hatred, and the consequences of indifference.

What were conversations with him like?

For all his accomplishments and his many honors and recognitions, he was a remarkably humble and gracious and very dignified human being. Very understated, warm personality. I would go to him for advice from time to time, and he would say, “Sara, I’m here to help you. You tell me whatever I can do to help. That’s my job, to help you."

How much has his work shaped the way the Holocaust is taught in schools and how museums are put together and the mission of those museums?

Night is an iconic book. Most people have it as a reference point. For many it’s their first introduction. Many of Elie’s quotes from Night and other speeches and dedications here at the museum really communicate many of these lessons I’ve talked to you about today. He often said—and I’m not going to get these words right—indifference is the greatest sin in the world. There will always be evil people, but they will count on the indifference of others. The challenge that the Holocaust is to all of us is never to be indifferent. Never to be a bystander.

How can his legacy best be preserved?

I think the museum and his writings, of course, which speak so much to the past but also to the future as he wanted them to, I think they will carry on his legacy. We live in a world where the lessons that Elie taught us are very, very relevant today.

Did he say anything pointing out the relevance of those lessons in the last few decades?

When you look at when the museum opened in 1993, as he spoke at the dedication ceremony, he talked about his mother and he talked about her life and her horrible death in the Holocaust, and then, invoking her memory and the failure of the world to save her, he turned around and challenged the newly elected President Clinton that he had to confront ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.

I think that speaks to exactly what Elie Wiesel stands for and the continued relevance of his message.

This interview was edited and condensed.

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Book Journey

Night by Eli Wiesel

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night , a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life’s essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel’s lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.

There are few books that cross my path that I say are a must read for everybody.  This would be one of those rare reads.  I have had this book for over a year on the shelf.  I took it down a couple of months ago, started it… and put it down for something else.  Recently when browsing audio books at my library, this audio stood out to me and I thought maybe if I listen to it… so I borrowed it.

I love audio for the ability it has to let me multi task.  I can listen to a book while folding laundry, cooking, dusting, cleaning… yet this story took me so far into the Nazi German concentration camps that I was rendered useless to do anything else but listen… for fear I may miss a word, or a moment of this incredibly powerful and heart wrenching story.

Elie Weisel’s memoir recaps everything from the sounds, the smells, and the visual empowerment of the camps.  Along side his father Shlomo, they work in the camps trying to stay energized and look strong as the weak are picked out one by one and taken to the gas chambers to be asphyxiated.

There are moments in this audio that will not ever leave me as Elie retells a story of watching an elderly man hiding a piece of bread to share with his son, and the son beats his father to the death to have all of the bread.

…….

I pause here – because that particular part of the story brought me to my knees in my kitchen.  Surrounded by ingredients I was using to make dinner, I looked at the excess I had in front of me as I listened to a man being beaten to death.. for a scrap of bread. 

Elie recaps how as a teenager in the camp, always seeming to have to protect his own aging father, he admits to becoming weary of the task, at one time, as his father draws ill he admits to thinking, “If only I could get rid of this dead weight … Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever.”

While Night may not seem to be for everyone, I have to disagree.  This audio changed me.  I have read several books regarding the Nazi Concentration Camps and each time I am slammed with the reality of what a confusing and painful world we live in.  I listened to this audio astounded how people can be so cruel to one another… and yet, I think it is so important that we recognize this. 

Although I picked this up at my library, I will be looking for my own audio copy of this book.  I think this is something I need to listen to again, and yes I will be reading the book as well… still open to the page where I left it in the Reading Room. 

Side thought:  A few years back when we were in Honduras I had my first experience of the starving children living in the dump.  That visual of the dirty kids, the flies, the unbelievably thin dogs, the buzzards, and of course that smell of rot – will never leave me.  I could not help but sense my eyes feel with tears…. We were told at that time not to look at them with pity… they did not need our pity.  They needed our compassion.  This thought comes to me today as I write this review. ~Sheila

Night, I discovered is the first book in a trilogy… followed by Dawn, and then Day.  Dawn, unlike Night, is a work of fiction about a girl named Elisha who is a Holocaust survivor.  Day is also a fictional story of a Holocaust survivor who is hit by a taxi in New York City, while he recovers from his injuries, he reflects on his memories of the war and the loss of family and friends.

Amazon sells the three books in one . 

Night, on audio, is 4 hours long.  In book format it is 109 pages. 

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52 thoughts on “ Night by Eli Wiesel ”

WOW! What a powerfully emotional read! Yes, I agree that everyone should read this. I’ll be buying all three books.

If I would have seen the three book package (or known about the other two books) prior to this review, I would have got it too Vicki. 🙂

I still may.

This is a book I’ve had on my wish list for awhile…time to move it up! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings about this one.

Laurel, I think you could easily read the book in an afternoon… once it gets moving I don’t think you would be able to put it down anyway.

I got the chills reading this … so powerful. I think I’ll buy all three books and read them this winter. Terrific review, Sheila.

Beth, even writing the review made me cry… the pictures… all that senseless suffering… it really sparked anger in me.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is one of those books that I think everyone should read. It’s brief, to the point, holds nothing back, and is a fantastic story that is well written

Agreed Helen. 🙂

I totally agree. What a wonderful book. I was kind of sad that he seemed so disillusioned with his religion. But, I can’t imagine what that kind of experience can do to a person.

That was sad Heidi. I can not even imagine trying to live through something like that… I think you would go a little insane, almost to protect yourself from the reality.

Wow! This sounds amazing. I never listen to audio books, but 4 hours might be doable. And it sounds like the audio would be more powerful than the book.

It worked for me Julie… the narrator was very good… and it helped me get into the read. I was engaged right from the beginning.

I read this book when I was a teenager and the horrors of it still haunt me. To this day, I recommend that everyone read this book. And I agree with you that this also changed me. Stunning, brilliant work.

I just can not imagine… it impacted me even more than The Boy In The Stryped Pajamas, as this one is non fiction.

You could also post this on our Banned Books blog, since Night was banned or challenged in Texas and other places: http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/harry-potter-series-tops-list-banned-books-texas-according-aclu-report

A few months ago, Helen Murdoch and I had a conversation about Night in comments on my post: http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/05/books-i-literally-couldnt-give-away.html

In my post, I had quoted from the book:

The central event in it, for me and many others, is when a boy dies slowly on the gallows (pp. 61-62):

Behind me, I heard the same man asking: Where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him: … Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows.

Thanks Bonnie- I had no idea it was once challenged! Wow – I will check out the links, thank you!

i brought this book earlier in the year and have it on my shelf to read. i will have to bump it further up the pile!

I hope you do! Powerful. Thats what comes to mind.

This was a rather haunting book.

It’s not often I listen to books cds twice, but I did have to repeat some of the chapters they were so touching.

Wow, I’d never heard of this book, but I think now I’ll have to seek it out. It sounds amazing.

I hope you do Audrey, what happened during the Holocaust was so terrible…. but it must be known. Another book you must read if you have not already is the Boy In The Stryped Pajamas.

Great review of a powerful book. I read this quite a while ago but it will always haunt me. Your reaction in the kitchen to the excess of your food and in making bread resonated with me! I agree that all people should read this even though not all will walk away with what we have. But at least we tried.

Right Staci! It was the timing of that part of the book… I had the counters covered, I was cutting vegetables, I had tomatoes, and peppers, and onion on the counter… two kinds of bread, I was mixing up a sandwich spread I wanted to try for book club too….

and then I listened to Eli tell the story of the man hiding a small piece of bread as though he had just found an unattended banquet.

Oh i just read the book a couple of weeks ago and yes, it is a must read for all. I am particularly drawn to books of the Holocaust times, both fiction and non. I will have to look for Dawn and Day.

I am too Krystyn. I am also going to read the other two books.

Such a powerful book! I want to reread it and continue with the trilogy.

I would like to try the other two as well Jo Ann.:)

I agree about Night- it’s a must read. But dont get me started about the boy in the stryped pajamas! 🙂

Marie oh that one made me a blubbery mess too Marie…. blew me away.

There are really no words to describe this book. The horror of it is amazing… And then to think some people don’t believe the Holocaust ever happened…

I cant even imagine what it was like for those who lived through it and seen all of this…. they have to be still haunted today.

A very powerful book and a very powerful review.

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Thank you… some book just bring out a lot of passion.

I had this on my shelf, but never got very far in it, I’m not sure if I even still have it. I know I should read it, but I think it is a hard read as well.

Maybe try the audio Jill…. it worked for me and it is only 4 hours.

I’m so glad you finally got a chance to read this. For such a short book it sure packed a powerful punch. Authors of fiction and non fiction alike need to understand it doesn’t take a lot of highfalutin’ flowery words to get the point across. The starkness of it is what makes this work. A horrifically gripping memoir, Night should be on everyone’s bookshelf.

That is a great word for this Angie… the starkness. The audio is said with no frills, bells, or whistles, it is just the truth pouring out into words…

I have Night and Dawn on my shelf, and I know that they are going to be emotional reads. I’ve picked up and set down Night before too. I will pick it up and read it on a day when I’m strong enough to handle it.

I think the audio was the way to go for me Alyce, but I will read the book as well while listening to the audio I was able to do some small tasks, but found myself re-listening to chapters to get the full feel.

I’ve wanted to read Dawn and Day since I read Night, but I haven’t gotten around to purchasing them yet (my library doesn’t have them).

I should see if my library does Hannah… I am wondering if they are small like Night was.

I read this book a couple of years ago. So powerful. I remember wondering to myself what is it that makes some people cling to God in times of horror and others turn away from God in the same circumstances. I believe (hope) I’d be one that clings to Him.

This is a great comment Joy and you are so right… trials really test our faith.

Excellent review. I know this is a must read book, and I’ve always been putting it off because of how upsetting the subject matter is. But that is EXACTLY why I need to read it.

Exactly…. it is a hard read. Hearing it (audio) was not easy either…. but it was one of those things as painful as it is… I need to know this.

I have this one sitting on my shelf. I think I might read it for the next readathon. I need to be home when I read it. I know I’ll get weepy.

I think you are right Linda to be home when you read it… 😀 It isnt a long book so it is perfect for a read a thon.

I listened to the audio years aog and was forever moved by it. Great review, Sheila. It is astounding and sad how much we take for granted. I need to get myself a hard copy so I can read it and have it on my shelf. As much as I loved this one I never really felt the urge to continue with the fiction books, but I look forward to seeing if you like them 🙂

I am interested in the other two books I think mainly because I am curious about how he would write a fictional story 😀

I read Night a few years ago and was blown away by it. I still think about the story about the bread. I agree this is a must-read for everyone. I’ve linked to your review on War Through the Generations.

The bread story crushed me Anna… it will be with me forever.

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Elie Wiesel Timeline Journey

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April 9, 1944

Elie's Holocaust journey first started when the Nazis made them relocate to the ghettos in Sighet. In the ghettos there where many Jewish parents, kids, and old people.  The jews couldn't do anything, Shabbat was silenced, nobody prayed, and no laughter. The German Army made everyone turn in their valuables.

April, 1944

All the Jews including Elie and his family were captured by the Nazis.

June 7, 1944

Elie was separated from his mother and sisters. When Elie and his father were separated it was hard for his family because he knows that his Mom and sister were going to be killed.

In the Cattle cars on the way to Auschwitz, there was a woman whose name was Mrs. Schachter, among 100 others in one little car. In the cattle cars, Mrs. Schachter was yelling " Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me!"(page 25 Night). Every one, though she was crazy because there was no fire or smoke nothing just the night sky. She continued to scream " Jews listen to me. I see fire! I see flames, huge flames!" (page 25 Night). Elie says, " I thought she was possessed by some evil spirit we tried to reason with her, more to clam ourselves to catch pour breath than to soothe her"( page 25 Night). Everyone on the cars though she was crazy.

June 9, 1944

Elie and his dad arrived in Auschwitz. When they arrived Elie realized that Mrs. Schachter was right. She said there were a fire and smoke and there was in Auschwitz. Buring corps.

Elie was given a tattoo (his new name) A-7713 on his way into Auschwitz. Everyone was given a tattoo because they didn't have a name anymore. They would call them by their number only so the germans would feel pain when they killed them. "From then on, I had no other name" (Wiesel, 67). This shows Elie had no other name just A-7713. That what people called him because nobody knew each other. Everyone looked alike.

June 29, 1944

Elie arrives at  Buna a Camp in Auschwitz. The buna factory was where everyone worked.

September 1, 1944

The Selection. Elie's dad was selected and gave him a spoon and knife to remember him. Elie did not take it because he told his dad that is going to make it through. He gave a spoon and a knife so he could use it to trade and buy food. " Here take this Knife I won't need it anymore, you may find it useful. "Also take this spoon, don't sell it quickly go ahead and take what I am giving you, my inheritance".(Chapter 5 pg. 75) . This shows that Elie's father knew that he was going to die so he gave Elie something to use to trade for food and water.

Jan 25, 1945

Elie was taken to the hospital where he got good treatment and care. He had foot surgery and they said they would have to amputate his leg but he didn't have too in the end.

Jan 28 , 1945

The Death March, they had to march 85 miles no stopping in the snow and cold to get to another camp called Buchenwald. People were falling and dying. Elie's dad was weak and so was he. Elie and his had switched roles. Elie was now like the father to make sure his dad was going through.

Jan 29 , 1945

Elie's dad became weak and began to slow down. He couldn't move anymore Elie dad said " I can't anymore, its over, I shall die right here. " Leave me here I can't go on any more pity me"(page 105 Night). Elie had to leave his dad behind and that was the last time he ever saw him again. Elie's dad was probably found and taken away to be cremated.

April 11 , 1945

Elie was liberated in Buchenwald. He finally made it through a horrible time. The US 89th division. " our first act as free men were to throw ourselves onto the provision. That's all we thought about no thought of revenge or parents. Only of bread" ( Wiesel 115). He was very hungry and so was everyone else but they were glad to be freed.

I think the most significant point in Elie's journey is when his dad dies. I think this because Elie's dad was so close to coming through and he had to let himself go. Elie was all alone and happy at the same time because he didn't have  to watch over his father anymore.  Elie's father played a big role in Elie's holocaust journey because he was always there for him. It's important to have someone you love with you it what makes you happy.

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"I feel the best I can remember feeling in my life," Lake told "GMA."

Media mogul Ricki Lake is speaking out for the first time about her recent weight loss journey, saying she was able to shed 35 pounds without using medication.

Lake told "Good Morning America" she made a decision to take a bet on herself, and in the process, discovered a newfound happiness.

"I feel the best I can remember feeling in my life," Lake told ABC News' Kayna Whitworth. I have this new marriage and I'm so blissfully happy with this amazing man, my perfect man. And if I pinpoint one thing that was not working in our lives, is that we were carrying this extra weight."

Throughout her longtime career, Lake has been an open book about her weight challenges and health struggles. But in the last seven months, she said she and her husband teamed up to lose weight and began to share their joint journey on Instagram.

"It's been a commitment. You know, it's been a financial commitment. It's been a like, a time commitment," Lake said. "But it's awesome. Like, I'm just, I'm so happy and proud of us."

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Lake said at 55 years old, she is in perimenopause and said a doctor suggested she go on medication to help her lose weight, an idea she wasn't on board with.

"He was saying you weren't going to be successful without it, is what he said to me," Lake recalled. "And I like a challenge. And I like proving people wrong. And so, it pissed me off."

Lake said she was "reluctant" about relying on medications and instead wanted to take on a lifestyle change.

"I just was reluctant. And I wanted to give it a go on my own. And so I said to my husband, 'You want to go on this ride with me?' And he's like, 'Sure,'" Lake said.

Lake and her husband of two years, Ross Burningham , began intermittent fasting , started following the keto diet and began exercising, including doing Pilates and sleep tracking.

Lake said their major changes paid off and she has dropped 35 pounds since October. She said Burningham has dropped nearly 40 pounds.

"This is a lifestyle change. I’ve made this my job. And it's become my joy," Lake said. "Like, I just, I love it. I think it's safe to say I'm in the best shape of my life."

"I say, 'This is what happy looks like.' This is really, I could cry. I'm so happy. I'm so happy," Lake added.

In March, Lake showed off her weight loss by donning her famous red swimsuit, which she wore for the cover of Us Weekly in May 2007. She recently re-wore another dress she walked the red carpet in at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

"Oh, this old thing?? Just had it hanging around 🥰 Originally wore this dress to the Business of Being Born world premiere in 2007 and now here I am wearing it again in 2024!" Lake captioned her Instagram post .

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"She's tenacious," he said. "When she decides that she's gonna do something, she's all in and just goes after it. And it's inspiring."

For anyone looking to make a change themselves, Lake said she recommends starting from a place of positivity and gratitude and then putting in the hard work to make it happen.

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"I think he's magic up there and he's watching over me," Lake said. "I believe he handpicked Ross for me. Yeah, I have a deep, deep knowing that he's left his mark with me."

Lake said now, she's looking forward to the future, and her best days are just on the horizon.

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Sydney Moore ’24, left, speaks with Jennifer King, the first Black woman to be named to a full-time NFL coaching staff, May 3 at Newman Arena.

First Black woman NFL coach shares journey through sports

By ben badua student and campus life.

When Jennifer King first attended the National Football League’s Women’s Forum in 2018, every one of the more than 40 women in attendance held jobs outside the sport. When King returned this year – every woman she met already worked in football.

“It just shows the tremendous growth that women have had in this sport,” said King, the featured speaker at “Breaking Barriers: The First Black Woman to Coach in the NFL,” an event held May 3 in Newman Arena.

“That’s something that the other women coaches in the league and I take very seriously,” she said, “just to be great [role] models and be the representation that we didn’t have for the people coming behind us.”

During an hourlong conversation moderated by student-athlete Sydney Moore ’24, King reflected on her journey through college and professional sports, and touched on topics ranging from the importance of diversity and representation to the growing opportunities for women in athletics.

A former student-athlete at Guilford College, King spent 13 years playing in the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA), a semi-pro, full-contact women’s league. She began her coaching career in college basketball and often worked other jobs to supplement her income, even serving as a police officer in her native North Carolina.

King eventually climbed the coaching ranks and in 2018 led Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, to a 22-4 record and its first United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II championship. Despite the success, King left college basketball the following year to pursue her dream of working in football.

“It’s so important for you to find something that you love,” King said. “Don’t be afraid to better yourself and don’t be afraid to make that leap into the unknown. When you get opportunities in life, you have to take them.”

Today, King is one of only 12 women to hold full-time coaching positions in the NFL. She broke into the sport as an assistant coach at Dartmouth College, and with the Arizona Hotshots of the now-defunct Alliance of American Football. After two years as a coaching intern with the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, King accompanied then-head coach Ron Rivera, whom she met at the 2018 NFL Women’s Forum, to the Washington Commanders.

In 2021, King was promoted from coaching intern to the role of assistant running backs coach in Washington and became the first Black woman to be named to a full-time NFL coaching staff. Recently, King accepted an assistant coaching position with the Chicago Bears, becoming the first female coach in the franchise’s 104-year history.

“I’ve gotten to this point by being myself every day,” said King, who credited coaches and players she met along the way for making her feel welcome. “I think it’s so important for people to find places where they can have the confidence to know you don’t have to show up as someone else.”

While answering a question from the audience, King recalled her first day with the Panthers. Both a fan of the team and a new staff member, she nervously stood against a wall as Luke Kuechly, the team’s star linebacker, approached and introduced himself. While King appreciated the gesture, he needed no introduction – considering she had his jersey at home.

“That set the tone for everything,” King said. “I think we’re entering a new era in sport, where for a lot of these guys now in control, it’s not new for them to have women in these positions anymore. We have a lot of work to do, but I haven’t experienced a lot of the [negative] things you probably think I would have because people are so much better and we’re moving into a new generation.”

A strong advocate for continuing to grow opportunities for women in athletics, King remains involved with the NFL’s Women’s Forum, Women’s Sports Foundation, and her own organization, the King Group, dedicated to enriching the lives of kids through camps, experiences and community programs.

King also discussed the increased interest in women’s sports and the important lessons she and other women can gain from participating in athletics.

“All the things that can happen as a leader, you’ve already experienced,” King said. “You’ve been knocked down and life has happened to you as an athlete, and as you move into leadership roles, you know you’re battle-tested and can lead companies and organizations.”

The talk was sponsored by the office of Black Student Empowerment , in Student and Campus Life, and supported by Cornell Athletics and Physical Education; the Gender Equity Resource Center; and the LGBT Resource Center.

Ben Badua is a creative content manager in Student and Campus Life.

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