Nonfiction· 1956· Nonfiction

Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (Night)

by אלי וויזעל Elie Wiesel

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  • The Holocaust

Elie Wiesel's Yiddish account of his deportation from Sighet with his family to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, later condensed into Night.

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  • Imprisonment
  • Loss of a loved one

Elie Wiesel's account of his own deportation as a teenager to Auschwitz and Buchenwald and of the death of his father in the camp.

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Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (Night)

Set in the The Night Trilogy universe.

Night is a 1956 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. It remains unclear how much of Night is memoir. Wiesel called it his deposition, but scholars have had difficulty approaching it as an unvarnished account.

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