Chlomo, however, passes a second physical exam and is given another chance to live. At the next selection, the doctor culls Chlomo from abler men. The savagery reaches its height when the guards hang a childlike thirteen year old, who dies slowly before Elie's eyes.ĭespairing, Elie grows morose during Rosh Hashanah services. After three weeks, Elie and his father are forced to march to Buna, a factory in the Auschwitz complex, where they sort electrical parts in an electronics warehouse. Sadistic guards and trustees exact capricious punishments. After viewing infants being tossed in a burning pit, Elie rebels against God, who remains silent.Įvery day, Elie and Chiomo struggle to keep their health so they can remain in the work force. Elie's mother and three sisters disappear into Birkenau, the death camp. Elie and his father Chlomo lie about their ages and depart with other hardy men to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Guards wielding billy clubs force Elie's group through a selection of those fit to work and those who face a grim and improbable future. One of the deportees, Madame Schächter, becomes hysterical with visions of flames and furnaces.Īt midnight on the third day of their deportation, the group looks in horror at flames rising above huge ovens and gags at the stench of burning flesh. In a cattle car, eighty villagers can scarcely move and have to survive on minimal food and water. Elie's family is part of the final convoy. In spring, authorities begin shipping trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. However, even when anti-Semitic measures force the Sighet Jews into supervised ghettos, Elie's family remains calm and compliant. His instructor, Moshe the Beadle, returns from a near-death experience and warns that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text.In 1944, in the village of Sighet, Romania, twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends much time and emotion on the Talmud and on Jewish mysticism. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. The book, first published in, was selected for Oprah's Book Club in, and continues to Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. 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. 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. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Wiesel called it his deposition, but scholars have had difficulty approaching it as an unvarnished account. Fifty years later the book had been translated into 30 languages, and now ranks as one of the bedrocks of Holocaust literature. He moved to Paris after the war and in completed an page manuscript in Yiddish about his experiences, published in Argentina as the page Un di velt hot geshvign "And the World Remained Silent". Wiesel was 16 when Buchenwald was liberated by the United States Army in April, too late for his father, who died after a beating while Wiesel lay silently on the bunk above for fear of being beaten too.
Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever. In just over pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the parent-child relationship, as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver. Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in -, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.