Night by Elie Wiesel

Presents activities to accompany the reading of Night by Elie Wiesel. For grades 8-12.

Featured book is about a searing personal memoir of a boy who lived through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a witness to the evils of the Nazi regime.

Audience
adult

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  2. Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind Shares nonfiction, biography, pre
  3. I Was a Boy in Belsen Shares Holocaust, nonfiction, biography
  4. Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories Shares Holocaust, nonfiction, history

“People who read Night by Elie Wiesel tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Tracker / Dogsong / Hatchet - A Gary Paulsen Collection
  2. The Story of Human Language
  3. We Take This Man
  4. Evans to Betsy

“If you want more of the same (history), start with these.”

  1. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade
  2. My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
  3. The Survivor Of The Holocaust
  4. My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism

“If it was the Holocaust that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. In the Face of Evil: Based on the Life of Dina Frydman Balbien
  2. Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family
  3. Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa
  4. The Testimony

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Inside Words
  2. The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
  3. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
  4. The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Activity Book 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor