Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Wiesel, Elie frey50

Night by Elie Wiesel ; translated by Stella Rodway ; forward by Francois Mauriac - Bantam Books - New York, N.Y. Bantam Books 1982 - xi, 109 p. 18 cm.

Translation of French version of: Un di velt hot geshvign.

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. [This book] 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.

0553272535 (pbk.)

076783005501


Wiesel, Elie 1928- --Childhood and youth


Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
Authors, French--20th century
Jewish authors--20th century
Holocaust--history--Europe
Concentration Camps--history--Europe
Literature, Modern
Jews Romania --Biography--Sighet

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