Night: A Memoir
2017 • 176 pages
Ratings189
Average rating4.3
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Ratings189
Average rating4.3
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 Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. - Publisher.
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Also contained in:
[Night with Related Readings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL268513W/Night_with_Related_Readings)
[La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856828W/La_Nuit_L'Aube_Le_Jour)
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Must-read Holocaust literature. I finally picked it up shortly after Elie Wiesel's death. I regret not reading it when I was younger.
Read for school-
Analyzing this book for school was very insightful, and was a great pace. Not my favorite but gets 5 stars because of how well it was written
Elie Wiesel gives us his story with the telling of life within concentration camps. As the war nears closer, and all Jews are rounded up, first into Ghettos and then transported out of the city, the haunting images that this book brings up are sure to bring you to tears.
As we move through the war years, and the daily struggle to stay alive, this story shows the stark reality, as well as the emotions that one felt as they were herded through. The struggle to keep clothing items, food, the daily basic functions that one takes for granted are all laid out here with the haunting and chilling reminder that life is but fleeting, and the cruelty that can be inflicted from another human being.
When you go to read this book, make sure you have tissues. I found myself in tears more than once while reading this. Should become mandatory reading for everyone.
A very moving and respectful account regarding Holocaust. Heartbreaking.
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