• Ms. Payal Trivedi

"Diaspora" refers to the scattering of people from their homeland. Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel, a Noble laureate whom Holocaust researcher Michael Berenbaum called "the ultimate Diaspora Jew," was a Romania-conceived American writer and human rights activist. Elie Wiesel's best need was Israel, yet he lived in the Diaspora on the grounds that as he said in his last meeting with journalist Nahum Barnea, “he considers himself to be a Jew of the Gola [exile] and not a Jew of the Geula [Redemption, i.e. Israel].” On living outside his homeland 'Israel", he conceded that, "As a Jew, I need Israel. More precisely: I can live as a Jew outside Israel but not without Israel". A more conceivable key is given by his confirmation that his "true self [does not] belong... to France... to America, [or] to some other place," an attribute normal for Diaspora Jews. As a Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish plunge who turned into an eloquent witness of the six million Jews butchered in World War II by the Nazis and who, more than any other person, singed the memory of the Holocaust on the world's conscience described his encounters amid Holocaust and his detainment in several inhumane imprisonments in his memoir, "Night". He was only fifteen years of innocent youngster when he was expelled from Sighet, a town in Hungary and sent to Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944, confronting a day by day battle to save his identity in coldhearted conditions as "prisoner A-7713". He likewise represents how the victims of the Holocaust lost their feeling of human identity, in consequence of mankind's capacity of getting to be plainly savage and bestial. Elie Wiesel, “a Messenger to Mankind” and a leading spokesman, triumphs over the silence by representing those whose history denied a voice. In keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust, he requests that we respect its victims; to end the silence that harrows its survivors.

Diaspora, Exile, Identity, Holocaust, Redemption, Witness

"Exile and Identity: A Study of ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, a Diaspora Jew", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.944-954, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907440.pdf

"Exile and Identity: A Study of ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, a Diaspora Jew", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp944-954, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907440.pdf