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Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and increasing disgust with ...
- Elie Wiesel
- 1960: Night. New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages.
4.37. 1,247,868 ratings38,026 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. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and ...
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Sep 12, 2017 · When Elie Wiesel first tried to describe his experience in the camps, he later wrote, “I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle.” We who have the honor to speak about Elie have the opposite challenge, finding words that capture the fierce and magical essence of this marvelous man.
Elie Wiesel’s literary memoir Night is a harrowing account of a Jewish teenager’s experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.Structured around horrifying, semi-autobiographical events from Wiesel’s life, the first-person narrative explores the impact of those events on its protagonist, Eliezer, who loses both his innocence and faith in God and human beings.
