Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: 1941-1945
- Genres: Long fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, World War II, Guilt, God, Jews or Jewish life, Fathers, Faith, Holocaust, Jewish, Talmud, Horror, Concentration camps
- Locales: Auschwitz-Berkenau, Transylvania, Romania
Places Discussed
*Sighet (SEE-get). Transylvanian village in which the novel’s opening section is set. Scenes in Sighet provide an introduction to life in the Jewish community by focusing on Wiesel’s introduction to his Jewish heritage and religion. The invading Nazi troops establish two ghettoes into which the village’s Jews are herded after being forced to give up all but what they can carry with them.
*Birkenau. Polish town that is the site of the first concentration camp in which the Wiesel family is imprisoned. Following their stay in the ghetto, the family,...
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