ISU Task 4 Blog Entry 3 ~ Night By Elie Wiesel

The following links at the bottom will contain articles about the social issue of the story "Night", and the life as a "Jew". The links will be explained as well.

http://forward.com/articles/216963/voices-of-holocaust-survivors-resound-in-words-of/

The image above was taken in a concentration camp in WWII, similar to the one Elie in the story had to stay with his father. The link for this picture explains and tells the reader the road Elie had to face when publishing his book/story (Night) and how he had to secretly get help by a publisher to help him publish the book so the world can read the things that him and his family had to go through as a Jew in the 1940's. While the struggle to survive in the concentration camp was key in the story, Elie first wrote his story in a Jewish type of language and then wanted to publish an English version of his story due to the fact that the majority in the world speaks English. He also had the chance to translate his story to French as well. The social issue mentioned before is that even when war is over, Elie as a Jewish man didn't have any sort of chance to publish his book due to racism and discrimination by other publishers that wanted to hide his story. Elie was lucky to have a backup plan to contact another publisher to help him make people around the world read his book and understand the struggle, pain and hard effort to survive he had to go through.

I also had the chance to find a album done by the Partisans of Vilna that published an album dedicated to the life in the ghetto back in WWII. 

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/songs-world-war-ii-jewish/id2568541

Several songs like "Under the White Stars and "You Jewish Partisan", goes through the life of getting hurt and discriminated by Nazi Germans in concentration camps and the life in the ghetto.