📍Strada Dragos Voda, Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș, Romania
1928 – 1944“I was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small Transylvanian city then part of Romania, in a Hasidic Jewish community of extraordinary spiritual richness. In 1944, when I was fifteen, the entire Jewish community of Sighet was deported to Auschwitz. My mother and younger sister were killed on arrival. My father died in Buchenwald weeks before liberation. I survived. I did not speak or write about what I had witnessed for ten years, bound by a vow of silence. Then I wrote Night in a single sustained act of testimony. Sighet, the community, the childhood of books and prayer and the Hasidic tradition — all of it existed and then did not exist, and the rest of my life was devoted to ensuring that the world remembered what had been lost and what had been done.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today
Sources: Wiesel, E. Night (1958, translated Marion Wiesel 2006), Hill & Wang; Wiesel, E. All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995), Knopf