Elie wiesel autobiography book

Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in —, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. In just over 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.

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.

Elie wiesel books about the holocaust

After the war, Wiesel moved to Paris and in completed an page manuscript in Yiddish about his experiences, published in Argentina as the page Un di velt hot geshvign "And the World Remained Silent". Translated into 30 languages, the book ranks as one of the cornerstones of Holocaust literature. Wiesel called it his deposition, but scholars have had difficulty approaching it as an unvarnished account.

The literary critic Ruth Franklin writes that the pruning of the text from Yiddish to French transformed an angry historical account into a work of art. Night is the first in a trilogy— Night , Dawn , Day —marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall.

Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God. There was nothing left. And yet we begin again with night. The family lived in a community of 10,—20, mostly Orthodox Jews.