La Nuit

About this book

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 La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour

Subjects

  • autobiography
  • biography
  • buchenwald resistance
  • cabala
  • canadian drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • childhood and youth
  • children
  • children in the holocaust
  • concentration camps
  • creative nonfiction
  • death marches
  • death of god
  • ethnic relations
  • fiction, fantasy, general
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, science fiction, general
  • fiction, suspense
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • french authors
  • genocide
  • hasidism
  • history
  • holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
  • holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
  • holocaust literature
  • holocaust survivors
  • jewish authors
  • jewish personal narratives
  • jews
  • jews, biography
  • jews, romania
  • kaddish
  • modern literature
  • persecutions
  • personal narratives
  • philosophy
  • poetry (poetic works by one author)
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 9
  • romance literature
  • romania, biography
  • siege of jerusalem
  • talmud
  • war and conflict
  • wiesel, elie, 1928-2016
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • yellow badges
  • youth