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Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Kabbalah (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism).
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The night before Eliezer's father passes away, an SS officer beats the dying man on the head. Eliezer is unable to cry or mourn. He spends another two and a half months at Buchenwald in a daze before the Nazis begin another prisoner evacuation.
The book Night follows the terrifying journey of Eliezer Wiesel and his family from their home in Sighet in Hungarian Transylvania through the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust during World War II.
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 ...
Night explores the darkest depths of human cruelty and the struggle for survival in the face of unimaginable horror. The work provides a firsthand perspective on the dehumanization of the Jewish people during the Holocaust and the emotional and psychological toll of such trauma.
The Wiesels and their fellow prisoners are forced to run through a snowy night in bitter cold over a forty-two mile route to Gleiwitz. Elie binds his bleeding foot in strips of blanket. Inmates who falter are shot.
Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir recounting the author’s experience in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald during the last two years of World War II. The book was published in France in 1958; a shortened English translation was published in the United States in 1960. In 1944, the 15-year old Wiesel, his ...
