Night by Elie Wiesel📖

Summary of Night 

“Night” is a short auto-biographical book by Elie Wiesel, describing his experiences in the Jewish ghetto of his hometown Sighet (now Sighetu Marmației) in Romania, near the Ukrainian border, as well as his time in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Reasons to read Night 

Elie Wiesel, a Romanian – American writer, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986), wrote “Night” as an account of his survival as a Jewish teenager in the ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust. The novel has sold ten million copies in the USA alone and has been translated into 30 languages. “Night” is also bundled as the “Night Trilogy” with Wiesel’s other novels “Dawn” and “Day”.

Setting: Sighet (Romania), Auschwitz (Poland) & Buchenwald (Germany)

Original title: La nuit

Short version in French of his Yiddish memoir ‘Un di Velt Hot Geshvign’

Year of publication: 1958

Nr of pages: 120