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Night by Elie Wiesel, published in 1958, is a powerful, largely autobiographical work that recounts the experiences of a teenager in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. The narrative begins with Eliezer's life in the Transylvanian town of Sighet and follows his harrowing journey through Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and finally ...
Night. Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator), François Mauriac (Foreword) 4.37. 1,246,613 ratings37,960 reviews. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald.
Intro. Night Summary. Next. Chapter 1. At the start of the memoir, it's 1941 and Eliezer is a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in the Hungarian town of Sighet. He's deeply religious and spends much of his time studying the Torah (the Bible) and the Talmud and praying.
Jan 16, 2006 · In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have ...
Key Facts about Night. Title: Night; When/where written: 1955-1958, South America and France; Published: 1960; Genre: Memoir/Semi-fictional autobiography; Point-of-View: First-person; Setting: Europe during WWII; Climax: the death of Eliezer’s father, Shlomo; Antagonist: The SS soldiers and broader anti-Jewish laws and sentiment. Elie Wiesel ...
Feb 7, 2012 · Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion...
Books. Night. Elie Wiesel. Penguin Books, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 120 pages. Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust,...
