Wiesel’s Night Recalls the Holocaust
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples, Holocaust
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Paris, Argentina, New York City
- Date: 1956
Article abstract: Elie Wiesel’s Night is a powerful and widely read testimony of a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner who dedicated his life to preserving the memory of the Holocaust victims.
Summary of Event
In 1955, when Elie Wiesel began writing the original version of Un di Velt hot geshvign (1956; Night, 1960) in Yiddish, ten years of silence had passed since his liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. His silence had enabled his memories and reflections to deepen.
Wiesel was born in 1928 in...
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