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Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry is a 1966 non-fiction book by Elie Wiesel. The book is based on his travels to the Soviet Union during the 1965 High Holidays to report on the condition of Soviet Jewry. [1] The work "called attention to Jews who were being persecuted for their religion and yet barred from emigrating." [2]
In the 1950s, the publication of two highly prominent memoirs, namely Night by Elie Wiesel, and Diary of Anne Frank, opened up an area of writing which would see the publication of hundreds of new memoirs over the following decades.
Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Eliezer Wiesel explains, "In Night, it is the 'I' who speaks. In the other two, it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
Hard-earned wisdom from the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author.
Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy — Night, Dawn, and Day — describing Wiesel's experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. [1] Unlike Night, Dawn is a work of fiction. [2] It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor.
Essays, Religion, Interviews A Jew Today: Random House, 1978 ISBN 0-394-42054-3: Essays, Religion Images from the Bible: the paintings of Shalom of Safed, the words of Elie Wiesel (with Shalom of Safed) Overlook Press, 1980 ISBN 0-87951-108-7: Art, Religion Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie Wiesel (with Irving Abrahamson)