Night

by Elie Wiesel

Paperback, 144 pages

Published Aug. 8, 2006 by Hill And Wang/F.S.G..

ISBN:: 978-0-14-018989-6

(58 reviews)

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 …

Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

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Melanie reviewed Night by Elie Wiesel

That night.

5 stars

Hate. This is the emotion this book makes me feel. Hate for humanity, hate for the people who allowed this, and hate for the people who perpetuated it. It brings back memories of a certain place to which I was once condemned, but my experiences are naught in comparison to the hells Eliezer endured. I was reminded, once again, that humans are evil and corrupt by nature. As he put it: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

Bridgman reviewed Night (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.) by Elie Wiesel

Review of 'Night (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

One of those must-read books that serves, in my case, as a reminder more than anything else. It is, as the copy I have quotes from the New York Times review of it, "A slim volume of terrifying power."
At different times Night will mean different things. To me, at this time, it read as a call for vigilance.

And then, one day all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet. And Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner. Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform, we too were crying. The train disappeared over the horizon; all that was left was thick, dirty smoke.
Behind me, someone said, sighing, "What do you expect? That's war .."
The deportees were quickly forgotten. A few days after they left, it was rumored that they were in Galacia, working, and even that they were content with …

And then, one day all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet. And Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner. Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform, we too were crying. The train disappeared over the horizon; all that was left was thick, dirty smoke.
Behind me, someone said, sighing, "What do you expect? That's war .."
The deportees were quickly forgotten. A few days after they left, it was rumored that they were in Galacia, working, and even that they were content with their fate.
Days went by. Then weeks and months. Life was normal again. A calm, reassuring wind blew through our homes. The shopkeepers were doing good business, the students lived among their books, and the children played in the streets.

Cheri reviewed Night by Elie Wiesel

Review of 'Night' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

A near constant kick in the gut. Wiesel's plain and clear descriptions lay what happened to him - and millions of others - bare and gives no place for the reader to hide. After the first few minutes of the book and going on straight through to the last word, my throat was tight with emotion.

A book every American should have to read.

ashrgreen94 reviewed Night by Elie Wiesel (Oprah's Book Club (55))

Review of 'Night' on 'Storygraph'

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I remember reading this book in school. It is fitting for it to be on the list of most depressing books ever, but I'm glad I read it.

Don reviewed Night (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.) by Elie Wiesel

Review of 'Night (Elie Wiesel Collection Ser.)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

glad i got to this classic. Wiesel writes with great description and feeling. His age of only 13 makes the story that much more powerful. The role of father and son are reversed as his youth becomes more useful in the concentration camps than the wisdom of old age.