Night Study Guide

Night study guideElie Wiesel's Night is a memoir that focuses on the final year of the Holocaust-a year that the author spent at Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp. The study guide for Night explores two central questions: What is the relationship between our stories and our identity? To what extent are we all witnesses of history and messengers to humanity?

For teachers and students reading Elie Wiesel's Night, we have developed a number of resources that provide historical context, suggest teaching strategies, and stimulate discussion in the classroom:

From the Library
Night -- Elie Wiesel's book is a memoir that focuses on the final year of the Holocaust-a year that the author spent at Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp

Challenge of Memory
-- The video montage to accompany Elie Wiesel's Night provides a framework with which to explore a number of episodes recorded in the memoir.

A Discussion with Elie Wiesel -- A compilation of video excerpts from a 1993 event where Facing History students from Chicago area high schools shared their thoughts and experiences with this Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor.

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