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Arne Brun Lie (2 February 1925 – 11 April 2010) [1] was a Norwegian-American author and Holocaust survivor best known for the book Night and Fog: A Survivor's Story (1990). Born in Oslo, Norway, Lie was a member of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation. He was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 at sixteen years of age.
The book was published in seven editions in Czech and translated into many other languages. Another book, Night and Fog (co-authored with Ota Kraus), is a study of the economic system of Nazi concentration camps and genocide motives. His book Judges, Prosecutors, Advocates deals with the Frankfurt Trials of Auschwitz war
Commemorative plaque for the French victims at Hinzert concentration camp, showing the expressions Nacht und Nebel and "NN-Deported". Nacht und Nebel (German: [ˈnaxt ʔʊnt ˈneːbl̩]), meaning Night and Fog, also known as the Night and Fog Decree, was a directive issued by Adolf Hitler on 7 December, 1941 targeting political activists and resistance "helpers" in the territories occupied by ...
Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais , it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps . The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel ( German for "Night and Fog") program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany.
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Summary: On the night of her 18th birthday, Elliott (Maisy Stella) takes hallucinogenic mushrooms and finds herself talking to her older self (played by Aubrey Plaza), who tries to give her advice ...
The two sisters are estranged from each other and their father, and the book follows the two different paths they take. Vianne, the eldest sister, is a married schoolteacher raising her 8-year-old daughter Sophie in her childhood home named Le Jardin in the town of Carriveau. Vianne's husband Antoine is drafted and subsequently captured as a ...
The book ends on a much stranger note than the movie. Newly invigorated to create, Mother decides to stage a performance art show at a local theater, where she appears in dog form with a mound of ...