A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight 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 … 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.
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I knew this book would be depressing but one that I should read. My father enlisted in the Army Air Force to stop Hitler from taking over the world. We should NEVER forget the inhumanity done to fellow people. I am not Jewish, by the way.
This classic book is a must-read for understanding the Holocaust. This book both haunts me and inspires me.
Every time I climb into a hot shower or my comfy bed, I think of stories like this one and know I’d be unable to survive . How can you run in snow for miles when you’re starving, your feet are bleeding, you’re stumbling over corpses….How do you keep your faith in God?
This short book explores the terror and horror of the Holocaust through the …
The horrors the Jewish people had to endure is haunting!
Truthfully written to inform. Full of details I had not heard before. Should be required reading by high school students.
Interesting story that offers a different point of view of the holocaust.
Fabulous tragic life story
Well done portrayal of Jews in a Nazi camp.
One of the best Holocaust books. I’ve read it many times.
It has an underlying tragedy of people asking God for help then ignoring the help when it presents itself. It happens at least three times in Wiesel’s story.
This is a good beginner if you know little about the Holocaust. I wanted to know so much more, however. Perhaps this is all Mr. Weisel was able to handle at the time of his writing.
Read in one sitting and was disappointed for it to be over. I wanted to know more. I have read a number of survivor accounts, this one kept me enthralled like no other. The time period was horrendous, but I am grateful we still have the voices of survivors to remind us what can happen again if we let our guard down.
Have owned an autographed copy of this book after hearing Eli Weisel speak in New Mexico many years ago. Should be required reading for all politicians and high school students.
A classic that deserves its status.
A probing, angry account of one person’s experience and reaction to the Nazi campaign of ethnic cleansing. A must read.
It is a diary of his experiences during the holocaust. Haunting.
Brilliant!!
I re-read this after many years and was just as moved as I was when I read it 30 years ago. I also appreciated the new introduction in which the author reminds that forgetting all those people is like killing them again.
“I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it.”
I first read Night: Memorial Edition in 8th grade, and it cracked something inside me that has never quite healed. In college, when my backpack and I traveled through Europe, I tried to ignore the dysentery I’d acquired in Eqypt …
Elie Weisel’s memoir of his time in the concentration camps is so courageous!