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Night

by Elie Wiesel

4.5

About the book

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 his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.

This book was a sucker punch to the solar plexus. Even in the midst of unspeakable atrocities, there was so much hope.

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Categories:

Holocaust World War II Memoir War Historical Biography History Classics Non-fiction

Language:

English

Length:

115 pages

Author:

Elie Wiesel
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