![]() ![]() Wiesel called it his deposition, but scholars have had difficulty approaching it as an unvarnished account. It remains unclear how much of Night is memoir. Translated into 30 languages, the book ranks as one of the bedrocks of Holocaust literature. ![]() ![]() Les Éditions de Minuit published 178 pages as La Nuit in 1958, and in 1960 Hill & Wang in New York published a 116-page translation as Night. The novelist François Mauriac helped him find a French publisher. The memoir ends shortly after the United States Army liberated Buchenwald in April 1945.Īfter the war, Wiesel moved to Paris and in 1954 completed an 862-page manuscript in Yiddish about his experiences, published in Argentina as the 245-page Un di velt hot geshvign ("And the World Remained Silent"). His father died in January 1945, taken to the crematory after deteriorating due to dysentery and a beating while Wiesel lay silently on the bunk above him for fear of being beaten too. The typical parent-child relationship is inverted as his father dwindled in the camps to a helpless state while Wiesel himself became his teenaged caregiver. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and increasing disgust with humanity, recounting his experiences from the Nazi-established ghettos in his hometown of Sighet, Romania to his migration through multiple concentration camps. Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. New York: Hill & Wang/Oprah Book Club, 2006.) New York: Hill & Wang London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages.Ġ-8090-7350-1 (Stella Rodway translation. On NovemWiesel received an honorary knighthood in London, England in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.1960: Night. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," noting that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel has delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He was the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. On Eliezer Wiesel was a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. Eliezer Wiesel was a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. ![]()
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