Night (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: Spring, 1944, to spring, 1945
- Setting: Hungary, Poland, and Germany
- Principal Characters: Elie Wiesel, His Father
- 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
Form and Content
On March 19, 1944, German Schutzstaffeln (SS) troops under Adolf Eichmann entered Hungary for the express purpose of rounding up the Jews of that country for extermination. Even as German armies elsewhere were retreating under pounding Russian advances, Adolf Hitler’s so-called final solution was extended to Hungarian Jews—who had mistakenly thought themselves safe from German danger. A few days after the invasion, SS troops appeared in the Transylvanian town of Sighet and began the brutal process that would send almost all Sighet’s fifteen thousand Jews...
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