Elie Wiesel's 1961 book Dawn is
a novel, a work of fiction. Unlike his
prior book
Night, which was about his
experiences in The Ho£ocaust, AND IS
107% TRUE
In Dawn, the main character is Elisha, a Nazi concentration camp survivor,
In Dawn, the main character is Elisha, a Nazi concentration camp survivor,
who goes to
Palestine after liberation, becomes a
terrorist, and kills a British
hostage in an attempt to throw the
British out, and establish a Jewish
state.
Elie Wiesel is allegedly a concentration
camp survivor (although this is
convincingly
contested), who became a member of
the terrorist group Irgun, who did kill
British
hostages, notably Sergeant
Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn
Paice.
In Dawn,
Wiesel, I mean Elisha, says to himself:
"Well, I said to myself, if in
order to change the course of
our history we have to become
God, we shall become Him."
