![]() (click on picture for larger image) Below that is the 1957 YV form for Mendel Wiesel by Yaakov Fishkovitz. After that came another son, Mendel then two more daughters.īelow: YV forms for Shlomo Wiesel by Son Eli and cousin Yaakov Fishkovitz. In 1903 their first son, named Shlomo, was born. This first child of Nisel and Eliezer was probably a daughter, either Idiss or Giza. (This information is from the victim forms filled out for Yad Vashem by her nephew and grandson see further below.) We don’t know the date of her marriage, but her first child may have been born in 1900 when she was 19 years old. She married Eliezer Vizel and lived with him in Sighet, Rumania … which later became Hungary. She was born in 1881 in Chust, Ruthenian-Czechoslovakia. Nisel Bash was the daughter of Moshe and Yehudit (or Mindil) Bash (or Basch). Who is Grandmother Nisel and why is she important? Wiesel is always treated with the softest of kid gloves.) And I imagine probing questions about his family are off-limits … probably on the grounds that it is “too painful” for him. (I suspect that whenever Wiesel gives an interview or allows someone to write a book about him, he obtains an agreement in advance as to what can be discussed and what is off-limits. Not one of Wiesel’s numerous interviewers, biographers, commentators or adulators have ever asked about it, or, if they did, they must have accepted without complaint a “no comment” from him. There is no excuse or explanation that can be given for such a lapse, and none has ever been attempted. But Night is another story (pun intended). Thirdly, Grandma Nisel, as a member of his family group that he says he lost at Auschwitz, could not with any decency be left out when writing about this momentous event.Īnd, in fact, he didn’t leave her out of his memoir, nor did Hilda leave her out of her testimony. Secondly, by including his grandmother when he mentioned his mother and three sisters, he would not have added more than a few words to the deportation narrative, as we will see. ![]() In the first place, Wiesel makes it clear in All Rivers how important Grandma Nisel was to him and he writes affectionately about her. 2ĭid Wiesel simply forget about his grandmother only 10 years after the event and then remember her again in the 1990’s? Did he cut her out because he wanted to condense his book and she was peripheral to the storyline? Neither of these can be believed. Why is Grandma Nisel not mentioned in Elie Wiesel’s Night?Īccording to Hilda Wiesel’s 1995 “Survivors of the Shoah” testimony, Grandmother Nisel (also spelled Nissel) went with the family to Auschwitz.Īccording to Elie Wiesel’s 1995 memoir, All Rivers Run to the Sea 1, Grandmother Nisel went with the family to Auschwitz.īut Grandma Nisel is not mentioned even once in Wiesel’s 1958-60 supposedly autobiographical Night. Posted on Decemat 4:59 pm The Truth about ‘Night’: Why it’s not Elie Wiesel’s Story ![]()
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