Night by Elie Wiesel
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night, is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel’s testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.
starfishred wrote on Jan 27, ’09
thanks was just reading about him today-
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sanssouciblogs wrote on Jan 27, ’09
Someone mentioned on my page that he had passed away–must have confused him with someone else. Glad he’s still here. He’s an amazing man.
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starfishred wrote on Jan 27, ’09, edited on Jan 27, ’09
sanssouciblogs said
Someone mentioned on my page that he had passed away–must have confused him with someone else. Glad he’s still here. He’s an amazing man. i think they thought of Simone Wiesenthal he died not long ago-he also worked at the archives and helped hunt down many jewish murderers.
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lauritasita wrote on Jan 27, ’09
sanssouciblogs said
Someone mentioned on my page that he had passed away I’ll check it out. If he passed away, I didn’t know.
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starfishred wrote on Jan 27, ’09
lauritasita said
I’ll check it out. If he passed away, I didn’t know. no he didn’t die Simone Wiesenthal did and i think the person got them mixed up-
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skeezicks1957 wrote on Jan 27, ’09
I remember a small dark blue book on my mother’s bookshelf. I think it was titled “Night” but I never read it. I think I will find a copy and read it and see if it looks like the same book.
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philsgal7759 wrote on Jan 27, ’09
We tread this last year in a Book Group Excellent though chilling
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tulipsinspring wrote on Jan 27, ’09
I read this book at a child, and it left me really shaken. It’s stark and distressing, and so important as a record of what happened. Great post.
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What Hitler and Nazi Germany did to the Jewish people, along with others during WW11 should never ever be forgotten. It must remain in the history books always. It is a lesson in horror that we need to be aware of. People must be on guard against allowing their beloiefs and rights to be compromised in any way. Atrocities stil continue, genocide is still alive in our world … we all need to make an effort to bring a stop to it. Awareness is a tool … and teaching our children true history is a must.
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