Elie Wiesel

"Night--A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The diary of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again"--back cover

Night

Night, Dawn, The Accident

The Night Trilogy

Anne Frank

Mirjam Pressler

Otto Frank

Susan Massotty

Diary of a Young Girl

A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him “the conscience of the world.” The whole of the president’s eloquent tribute will appear as a foreword to this memorial edition of Night. “Like millions of admirers, I first came to know Elie through his account of the horror he endured during the Holocaust simply because he was Jewish,” wrote the president. In 1986, when Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote, “Elie Wiesel was rescued from the ashes of Auschwitz after storm and fire had ravaged his life. In time he realized that his life could have purpose: that he was to be a witness, the one who would pass on the account of what had happened so that the dead would not have died in vain and so the living could learn.” Night, which has sold millions of copies around the world, is the very embodiment of that conviction. It is written in simple, understated language, yet it is emotionally devastating, never to be forgotten. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. Night is the shattering record of his memories of the death of his mother, father, and little sister, Tsipora; the death of his own innocence; and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night,” writes Wiesel. “Never shall I forget . . . even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.” These words are etched into the wall of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Far more than a chronicle of the sadistic realm of the camps, Night also addresses many of the philosophical and personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of the Holocaust. The memorial edition of Night includes the unpublished text of a speech that Wiesel delivered before the United Nations General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz entitled “Will the World Ever Know.” These remarks powerfully resonate with Night and with subsequent acts of genocide.

A Memoir

Ariel Burger

Five Biblical Portraits

La Noche

The Accident

El Crepúsculo, a lo lejos

In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation" (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that "the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil."

Reminiscences

From the Kingdom of Memory

8th Grade Books 

The Story of a Legend

Golem

Originally published: New York: Random House, Ã1976.

A True Story of Angelic Presence and the Return to the Age of Miracles

Messengers of God

Thomas Buergenthal

A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz As a Young Boy

Lucky Child

A son père, à ses anciens maîtres, à ses compagnons d'enfance, aux millions d'inconnus disparus dans l'enfer des camps, ce n'est pas une banale prière des morts, un Kadish rituel, qu'Elie Wiesel adresse, mais de ces chants intérieurs dont les absents semblent dicter les paroles. Né en Roumanie en 1928, rescapé d'Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix en 1986. Philosophe et écrivain, il est notamment l'auteur de La Nuit et d'Un désir fou de danser.

Le Chant des morts

Jeune journaliste, Yedidyah évolue dans la rédaction d’un quotidien new-yorkais, avec ses intrigues et ses fidélités. Critique théâtral, époux d’une actrice, il participe de la comédie new-yorkaise. Les succès éphémères, les gloires oubliées : rien n’est plus joyeux qu’une nouvelle étoile, rien n’est plus mélancolique que son crépuscule. Mais voilà qu’on demande un jour à Yedidyah de « couvrir » le procès d’un certain Werner Sonderberg. L’accusé, jeune Allemand résidant aux Etats-Unis, est parti se promener avec son vieil oncle, visiteur de passage, dans les montagnes des Adirondacks. Le neveu en est revenu seul. Coupable ou non coupable ? Cette affaire déclenche en Yedidyah d’étranges et puissants échos. Sentant qu’il se heurte à un secret familial, il tente de sonder sa propre mémoire. Qui est-il vraiment ? Comment retrouver les visages disparus d’un père, d’une mère, d’un frère ? Offre de mission clandestine en Israël, épisodes de l’Occupation et de l’après-guerre, camaraderie de combat et désillusions : tout s’enchevêtre dans sa conscience. Le voilà guetté par la folie. Il a recours à l’hypnose pour retrouver les images de sa petite enfance, faire la paix avec lui-même et avec « une histoire qui, jusqu’à la fin des temps, fera honte à l’humanité ».

Le cas Sonderberg

From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence. Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the past. As he reflects on his life and the decisions he’s made, he longingly reminisces about the relationships he once had with the men in his family (his father, his uncle, his grandfather) and the questions that remain unanswered. It’s a feeling that is further complicated when Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate named Werner Sonderberg. Sonderberg returned alone from a walk in the Adirondacks with an elderly uncle, whose lifeless body was soon retrieved from the woods. His plea is enigmatic: “Guilty . . . and not guilty.” These words strike a chord in Yedidyah, plunging him into feelings that bring him harrowingly close to madness. As Sonderberg’s trial moves along a path of dizzying yet revelatory twists and turns, Yedidyah begins to understand his own family’s hidden past and finally liberates himself from the shadow it has cast over his life. With his signature elegance and thoughtfulness, Elie Wiesel has given us an enthralling psychological mystery, both vividly dramatic and profoundly emotional.

The Sonderberg Case

Night; Dawn; The Accident

"The author...has built knowledge into artistic fiction."The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death providesDawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination.Dawnis an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.

Dawn

Angelia C. Greiner

Novel Guide

Night, Elie Wiesel

On Yom Kippur eve in 1965, Elie Wiesel found himself in Russia, “in a synagogue crowded with people. The air was stifling. The cantor was chanting . . . Suddenly a mad thought crossed my mind: Something is about to happen; any moment now the Rabbi will wake up, shake himself, pound the pulpit and cry out, shout his pain, his rage, his truth. I felt the tension building up inside me; the wait became unbearable. But nothing happened . . . It was too late. The Rabbi no longer had the strength to imagine himself free.” In Zalmen, or The Madness of God, Wiesel gives his Rabbi that strength, the courage to voice his oppression and isolation, and the result is a passionate cry. This play illuminates not only the plight of the Soviet Jew, but the anguish of individuals everywhere who must survive—and yet long for something more than mere survival. (Adapted for the stage by Marion Wiesel.)

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