Night Elie Wiesel Eli Wiesel 01 15 2013 Born in a Transylvanian town Sighet 1928 o Stronger concentration on studying religious texts and spirituality In concentration camps from 1944 45 Wrote Night 1960 Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 Publication History of Night Un di velt is geshvign And the world was silent Yiddish 1954 o This version continues on at the end past what the French and English version have published We re left with the image of the face in the English and French version In the Yiddish version it is about banishing that horrible past by smashing the mirror La Nuit Night French translated from Yiddish 1958 Night English translated from French 1960 Question Why did you write this I knew the role of the survivor was to testify How o There was nothing to compare to o How was one to write about something that had never been written about before o What do you choose to emphasize o In 1954 Wiesel wrote feverishly breathlessly and without rereading to stop the dead from dying to justify my own survival o Presents the problems without being a typical boring memoir His Memoir Conflict between father and son Biblical paradigm o The binding of Isaac or the Akeidah Hebrew Yiddish Genesis 22 o God s reward is fruitfulness for Abraham Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi 1919 1987 Info Original Italian title Se questo e un uomo If this is a man Written in 1946 first published in 1947 Republished 1948 English translation 1959 He committed suicide He didn t consider himself Jewish in anyway o Didn t grow up religious o No affiliation with Jewish culture Primo Levi is not ashamed to write about the Holocaust Unlike Wiesel Levi thinks that it is easy to use words to describe the horrific act Introduction understanding Holocaust Accusing those who did not go through the Holocaust of not He wants the reader to feel what it s like to have gone through the His questions are more philosophical than those of Wiesel Is it really necessary to replace a system What can be learned about Auschwitz through Levi s account What does he learn o P 87 The saved is like himself The drowned are the Muslims The saved and the drowned Those were died who were not helped who could not survive Primo Levi uses Dante in the way that Wiesel uses the Bible Herman Kruk Victor Klemperer 01 15 2013 Herman Kruk Info o May 19 1897 September 18 1944 o Librarian of the Vilna ghetto Vilna capital of Lithuania On the eve of the Holocaust there was appx 60 000 Jews total population around 210 000 During Holocaust Jews were incarcerated in two ghettos in Vilna Significant center for Jewish culture September 1941 Ghetto established Meant to be small labor camps Waste stations waypoint on the way to the death camp o Killed in labor camp in Estonia Forest at Ponar o Location at which many Jews were shot o Right outside Vilna Note he wrote o To those who may find this material These materials gathered here were collected written and preserved in the most difficult days of my life I beg the honest discoverer o Also wrote a poem similar to the one written at the beginning of Primo Levi s book Victor Klemperer Info o October 9 1881 February 11 1960 Survived the Holocaust o Dresden Germany o Converted to Protestantism in 1912 o Professor of French literature o LTI Lingua Tertii Imperii Notizbuch eines Philologen The Language of the Third Reich a Philologist s Notebook 1947 o Derived from his Diaries 01 15 2013 Poetry in the Ghettos Abraham Sutzkever Info Even wrote a song Yitzhak Katzenelson Info o Testified in Russian about the Holocaust The Lead Plates of the Rom Printers o Musicality found in his poems normally but lost in translation o 1886 1944 o Lived in the Warsaw Ghetto The Song of the Murdered Jewish People o Wrote before he died o Gave to a German Jew woman who held onto documents Movies Night and Fog 1955 Info 01 15 2013 o Directed by Alain Resnais b 1922 o Script by Jean Cayrol 1911 2005 The script doesn t say much of historical value o Soundtrack by Hanns Eisler 1898 1962 Definition of a Documentary o Non Fictional o Piece of material something that was created under some type of circumstances o Use of historical footage What is this a documentary of o Concentration camps o Shows overgrown fields of nothing Idea behind it o Can t really depict what happened here o Who can The word Jew is never really mentioned more than twice o Jews were portrayed as not the only type of victims Shoah 1985 Info o Directed by Claude Lanzmann b 1925 o Took 10 years to make o Edited down from 350 hours of footage No oral testimony no interviews o Silence the holding back of words Words replaced by music The absence created by death The subtitles aren t actually the real words the narrator meant o None of the films were about death camps and death they o Director was trying to physical contact and emotions to were all about survival recreate the memories Guest Speaker Dr Tasini 01 15 2013 Background Info Wrote a book Where Are We Going o About a 20 000 mile journey o Started in Poland into Siberia ending in Palestine Israel Comes from a pretty prominent family o Lived comfortably o Well known around town Visited Krakow her family s hometown o 1357 Jews invited by King Kazimierz the Great o Jews developed a trade center Kazimierz o 1939 Krakow population 200k o Jewish population 70k o 1991 Jewish population 1k Most Jews living there were killed at Auschwitz o History 1939 Sept 1 Germany invades Poland Sept 2 Britain and France declare ware Sept 6 Germans enter Krakow Sept 18 Russia crosses into Poland Poland divided River Burg is the new border 1941 August 22 Russia declares amnesty of Polish June 22 Germany invades Russia citizens September Polish army organized in Uzbekistan Sept December Polish army leaves for Iran Voyage Persia to Palestine 20k Jews exit with the Polish army Britain agrees to give visas to the exiles in Persia Iraqis refuses to allow the transit Refugees embark on a weeks journey through o Persian Gulf o Indian Ocean o Suez Canal Only could get into Palestine if had sponspor Her Odyssey Transport to Russia in 1940 o In a cattle car o GULAG Administration of Corrective 1919 1956 18 million prisoners 476 camps Logging mining construction Major support of economy Winter in Siberia in 1940 o Women had to pick berries Caspian Sea Journey Fatelessness by IMRE KERTESZ 01 15 2013 Background Info lives in berlin Germany born in 1929in Budapest Hungary Fatelessness published in Hungary in 1975 first English edition 1992