Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary as a child Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi
concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the
ever-increasing horrors he endured the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a
world that stripped him of humanity dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic
murder of a people from a survivor's perspective Night is among the most personal intimate
and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side
of human nature and the enduring power of hope it remains one of the most important works of
the twentieth century.
