The Forgotten | Related Titles
An important work that relates to The Forgotten is Wiesel's novel The Oath (1973). The Oath, like The Forgotten, concerns a Holocaust survivor who has suppressed his story about the Shoah but who feels that he must now reveal the atrocities to a younger person who has not experienced them himself. Yet in both novels, the audience is the son of a survivor who must learn about a tragedy in order to better understand.
Night (1958) is another work by Wiesel that focuses on father-son relationships during the Holocaust. Although Night deals with...
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