Night

Night, Elie Wiesels harrowing first-hand account of the Holocaust, is a devastating exploration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope.

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 survivors perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust.

Translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel

A slim volume of terrifying power The New York Times

To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record Alfred Kazin

Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art Curt Leviant, Saturday Review