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Wiesel, Elie (Vol. 165) - Itzhak Ivry (review date 17 December 1960)

Itzhak Ivry (review date 17 December 1960)

SOURCE: Ivry, Itzhak. “Memory of Torment.” Saturday Review 43, no. 51 (17 December 1960): 23-4.

[In the following review of Night, Ivry provides a brief plot synopsis and asserts that the memoir is a powerful and important recounting of life in the Nazi concentration camps. He also reviews Herbert Agar's book The Saving Remnant.]

Children's shoes are a touching sight when piled up in a concentration camp storehouse, and a child's reaction to the twentieth century's greatest calamity is especially poignant. This may be why The Diary of Anne Frank emerged as one of the most unforgettable documents of the period. A child's response to life in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) concentration camp is presented by Elie Wiesel in Night, which was written originally in French and has been ably translated into English by Stella Rodway. It contains a moving foreword by François Mauriac, who...

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