Night (1955)

by Elie Wiesel

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Series: The Night Trilogy (1)

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Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.… (more)

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How do you review the horrible experience of a Nazi concentration camp survivor? I tried imagining myself in his place, both in camp and after being liberated, and it would be hard to remember the details, let alone face them and write out the story. It's a quick read and I think more of us should be aware of the atrocities that happened. (

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KellyCook | May 12, 2023 |

A memoir of a Holocaust survivor. (

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CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |

This is a record of Elie Wiesel's personal memories of his time as a teenager in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. "Night" portrays the horror and grief so many people endured throughout World War II. Elie also urges readers throughout to remember what happens so it is never allowed to happen again. A heartbreaking story that all readers should hear. (

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amholland | Feb 23, 2023 |

I'll suggest to every reader I know that this book should be in their hands. (

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[Wiesel's] slim volume of terrifying power is the documentary of a boy - himself- who survived the "Night" that destroyed his parents and baby sister, but lost his God.

added by Shortride | editThe New York Times Book Review, Gertrude Samuels (pay site) (Nov 13, 1960)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Wiesel, Elie	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
BLÁHOVÁ, Alena	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
BROWN, Robert McAfee	Preface	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
BRUNT, Nini	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
COUMANS, Kiki	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
GUIDALL, George	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
MAURIAC, François	Foreword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
MELLON, Andrew	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
MEYER-CLASON, Curt	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
NICASTRO, Dean	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
RODWAY, Stella	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
ROSENBLATT, Jeffrey	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
SPARKS, Richard	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
VOGELMANN, Daniel	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
WIESEL, Marion	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

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The Night Trilogy (1)

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Is contained in

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day by Elie Wiesel

Has as a reference guide/companion

Holocaust Memoir Digest: Night by Elie Wiesel

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Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night by Louise Hawker

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Elie Wiesel's Night (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom

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Night - Elie Wiesel (SparkNotes) by Josh Perry

CliffsNotes on Weisel's Night by Maryam Riess

Elie Wiesel's Night (Bloom's Guides) by Harold Bloom

A Study Guide for Elie Wiesel's "Night" by Elizabeth Thomason

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Canonical title

Night

Original title

Un di Velt Hot Geshvign ( [1956], Yiddish)

La Nuit ( [1958], French)

Night ( [1960], English)

Alternative titles

Noite

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Auschwitz concentration camp, Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland

Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Buna

Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland

Important events

liberation of Buchenwald

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Awards and honors

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 2006)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List (2009, No. 76)

New York Public Library's Books of the Century (10 | War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism)

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Epigraph

Dedication

In memory of my parents and of my little sister, Tzipora

E.W.

This new translation

in memory of

my grandparents, Abba, Sarah, and Hachman,

who also vanished into that night

M.W.

First words

They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.

Quotations

At about six o'clock in the evening, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald. Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread. And even when we were no longer hungry, there was still no one who thought of revenge.

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A Lucky Child

Elie Wiesel bibliography

Five Chimneys

How Dark the Heavens

Monowitz concentration camp

Thanks to My Mother

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Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in.

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An incredible reaccounting of one boy's experience in the horrific hand's of the Nazi's in WWII. Elie Wiesl, a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy, is captured by the German Nazis and forced to do and experience unimaginable things. This story is unforgettable and heart-wrenching as we are able to zoom in and watch an innocent boy be mistreated and abused in the hands of the evil Nazis. Alhough terribly sad, this book sheds a light on some of the most horrific actions of man and is told in such a powerful way that a reader could not simply forget this story; that is why it made the top ten on my list.

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