“Night” by Elie Wiesel
I don’t know how I missed this book, Night, not only had I not read it, I hadn’t even heard of it, and now I would list it as one of the most important books to read on the Jewish Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel shares his personal experience in the camps. I’ve tried about seventeen different sentences in an effort to sum up his story; it can’t be done – it’s too big. Someone he manages to tell it well in this slender book, one that must be included on any Holocaust list.
“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” (Amazon).
