This memorial edition includes new material, including Wiesel’s as-yet unpublished speech to the United Nations General Assembly on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, in which he urged the world to always be engaged, because “indifference always helps the aggressor, never his victims.” There is also a memorial tribute from Barack Obama, who looks back on his conversations with Wiesel, including one when they visited Buchenwald together, and calls him “one of the great moral voices of our time, and, in many ways the conscience of the world. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitlers horrific reign of. An 8th grade class trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was a formative experience. It was disturbing but necessary to read, showing us how prejudice and persecution can escalate. (His parents and a sister did not survive. Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. I’ll always remember that my middle and high school teachers had us read a lot of fiction and nonfiction about the Holocaust.

One of the classics of world literature, Night tells the story of Wiesel and his family’s capture by the Nazis in their small village in Romania, his imprisonment at Auschwitz, and his eventual liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp at the age of 16. I found it at my school library and the barbed wire and shadow of a boy on the cover immediately. Night, Eliezer 'Elie' Wiesels account of his experiences as a 15 year old boy during the Holocaust, is a memoir of prodigious power: his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the. Night, Elie Wiesel’s searing Holocaust memoir, has been re-released in a special memorial edition, honoring the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Wiesel, who died in the summer of 2016 at the age of 87. I came across Night by Elie Wiesel while in middle school.

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