A teenager’s memoir of surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald
What it is about
Elie Wiesel was a teenager in a Jewish community in Transylvania when the family was deported in 1944. Night tells of his time in the concentration camps and the loss of his family. It is a brief, devastating account of what he saw and what it did to his faith.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who want a first-hand account of the Holocaust, often read in schools.
What you will get
A very short book that is extremely hard to forget. It is painful to read, and it is one of the most important memoirs of the twentieth century.
Behind the book
It was first published in Yiddish in 1956, and the English translation appeared in 1960.
Source: Wikipedia
Night Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Memoir · Holocaust · Faith
Length
120 pages · ≈ 3 h
More about this book
Characters
Elie Wiesel and his father.
Setting
Sighet, Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 and 1945.
What makes it different
A short, spare testimony that does not look away.
Feel
Sorrowful, stark and necessary.
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