For our introductory session to Elie Wiesel's memoir ,Night , I first discussed the use of the first person narrative in diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies. We discussed which format provided the most reliable narration and why. Kaitlin discussed the Diary of Anne Frank which she read last year noting its power was in its immediacy. We noted how autobiographical narratives are possibly the least reliable as people tend to excuse or ignore the less commendable aspects of their life. We then discussed the advent of the Nazi genocide first in Lithuania and Estonia which ultimately led to the creation of the death camps like Auschwitz . I provided some autobiographical information about the author who was deported to Auschwitz from his home in Hungary as a teenager. I further answered Kaitlin's questions about WWII and WWI and the Russian army's liberation of Auschwitz in 1945.