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Elie Wiesel
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
—Excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel1
Who was Elie Wiesel?
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Elie Wiesel speaks at a conference (Photo)
Elie Wiesel speaks at the Faith in Humankind conference, held before the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on September 18–19, 1984, in Washington, DC.
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust and a world-renowned
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Night (memoir)
1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel
1982 Bantam Books edition, with the original | |
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| English translators | |
Publication date | 1956: Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (Yiddish). Buenos Aires: Central Union of Polish Jews in Argentina, 245 pages. |
| First translation | 1958: La Nuit (French). Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 178 pages.[1] |
Published in English | 1960: Night. New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages. |
| ISBN | 0-8090-7350-1 (Stella Rodway translation. New York: Hill & Wang, 1960.) ISBN 0-553-27253-5 (Stella Rodway translation. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.) ISBN 0-374-50001-0 (Marion Wiesel translation. New York: Hill & Wang/Oprah Book Club, 2006.) |
| LC Class | D811 W4823 1960 (Hill & Wang, 1960) |
| Followed by | Dawn(1961) |
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi Germanconcentration camps a
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Elie Wiesel Biography
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small village in northern Transylvania, Romania, an area that was part of Hungary from 1941 to 1945. Wiesel was the only son of four children of Shlomo, a grocer, and his wife, Sarah (Feig) Wiesel. He was devoted to the study of the Torah, the Talmud and the mystical teachings of Hasidism and the Cabala.
The Nazis, led by Adolf Eichmann, entered Hungary in the spring of 1944 with orders to exterminate an estimated 600,000 Jews in under six weeks. Wiesel was 15 years old when the Nazis deported him and his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
His mother and younger sister died in the gas chambers on the night of their arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He and his father were deported to Buchenwald where his father died before the camp was liberated on April 11, 1945. Wiesel did not learn until after the war that his two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, also survived.
After receiving medical treatment, Wiesel went to France with other orphans but he remained stateless. He stayed in France, living first in Normandy and later in
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