Elie wiesel biography powerpoint
Elie Wiesel was born in in Sighet, Romania to Orthodox Jewish parents who owned a grocery store.
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1 Elie Wiesel
2 Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 1928.
His parents were Shlomo Wiesel and Sarah FeigHe had three sisters: Tzipora (the youngest who died at Auschwitz), Hilda, and Beatrice.
3 Sighet was annexed by Hungary in 1940.
The people of his village were sent to Auschwitz in April 1944.
4 Pictures of Sighet
5 Weisel House
6 Synagogue
7 Town Leaders
8 Boys working in Sighet before the war.
9 Zionists: wanted to go to what was then Palestine.
10 Ghetto in town after transportation.
11 Wiesel and sisters after the war.
12 He was liberated by the U.S.
Third Army on April 11.[
13 Wiesel fled to France. He first wrote about his experience in Le Nuit or Night in 1958.
14 He became an citizen of the US in 1964.
HE became the professor of humanities at Boston University in 1976.In 1986 he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
15 With