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 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. Night can also be read as an attack against silence. So many times in the work, evil is perpetuated by a silent lack of resistance or by ignoring reports of evil. The novel bears witness to tragedy in order to warn others, to prevent anything like the Holocaust from ever happening again.

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