![]() In 1960, the first English translation was published. Two years later, a compressed, 127-page French version called La Nuit ( Night) was published. The result was a nearly 900-page personal account, And the World Remained Silent, written in Yiddish and published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1956. Over time, Wiesel became acquainted with the distinguished French Catholic writer and Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac, who finally inspired Wiesel to break his self-imposed vow of silence and write about surviving the Nazi concentration camps. Though he had become involved in journalism, Wiesel had never shared his own personal experiences during the war. In 1948, he began his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and began to work for the French newspaper L'arche. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported by the Gestapo to Auschwitz and separated.Īfter the war, Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage. Each chapter raises questions that have haunted the world since Hitler's rise: How could the world allow such a staggering number of innocents to be persecuted and executed? Why does one man survive when his body, mind and spirit are brutalized for months, even years, when his neighbor-or father-does not? Night is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Holocaust and the legacy it left behind.Įlie (short for Eliezer) Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania (a town in northern modern-day Romania near the meeting of the Hungarian and Ukrainian borders). However painful this autobiographical work is to read, Night is a testament to memories, wounds and losses. In Night, Wiesel recalls his childhood before the Nazis ripped him from his hometown and the daily terrors he endured inside the German death camps. He witnessed unspeakable horrors during World War II as 6 million Jews were wiped off the face of this Earth, including his own family. Elie Wiesel is an author, scholar and Holocaust survivor. ![]()
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