Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Na
zi 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 per
spective, "Night" is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accou
nts 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 wor
ks of the twentieth century.
