When both ghettos were liquidated the entire Jewish population of Sighet was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. We decided to take turns sitting. A wretched stench floated in the air. Abruptly, our doors opened. Strange-looking creatures, dressed in striped jackets and black pants, jumped in to the wagon.
At the selection ramp of Birkenau, Wiesel was separated from his mother and sisters. Women to the right! Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. After being held for some time at Auschwitz I, Wiesel and his father were transferred to Monowitz Buna , a work camp that made up part of the extensive Auschwitz camp complex. He and his father were deported to Buchenwald where his father died before the camp was liberated on April 11, 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. 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.
He pared this manuscript down to an intense first-person account of his experiences. It was published in , and the English edition was published in Night is written in a taut, spare style. Since the publication of Night , Wiesel has written more than 40 books. He became an American citizen in His wife has edited and translated many of his works. They have a son, Shlomo Elisha, born in They live in New York.
Since , 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 — and the first Henry Luce visiting scholar in humanities and social thought at Yale University — The United Nations is founded.
Establishment of International Military Tribunal in August. On November 20, the trial of the top Nazi leaders begins in Nuremberg under the auspices of the International Military Tribunal.
The Allies France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union indict 22 top-ranking Nazi leaders and six German and Nazi Party organizations for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. SS units evacuate Auschwitz in January. Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany. Thousands more Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators are tried in the four zones of occupied Germany and in the countries that Germany and its Axis partners occupied.
On May 14, , the last British forces withdraw from Palestine and the State of Israel is established in accordance with the United Nations Partition Plan that proposed the partition of Palestine into two states, an Arab state and a Jewish state. This convention establishes " genocide " as an international crime, which signatory nations "undertake to prevent and punish.
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