Night by Elie Wiesel (.ePUB)
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Night, A Memoir by Elie Wiesel (Night Tilogy #01)
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Overview: Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. At the age of fifteen, he was deported to Auschwitz, where his mother and younger sister perished. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
After the war, Elie Wiesel began to rebuild his life in Paris, where he became a choirmaster and, later, a journalist. During an interview with the eminent Catholic author François Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir La Nuit, or Night, which has since been translated into thirty languages.
Night was the first of an astonishing sixty books of fiction and nonfiction that Elie Wiesel would eventually publish. It was also his most crucial volume. “If in my lifetime I would write only one book,” he said, “this would be the one … There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text.”
In his Nobel presentation speech, Egil Aarvik, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said in Oslo on December 8, 1986, “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.” Soon after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to counter indifference, intolerance and injustice throughout the world.
A staunch supporter of human rights, Elie Wiesel worked tirelessly on behalf of numerous groups, from Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, and Argentina’s desaparecidos to Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, and victims of famine in Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., of which Elie Wiesel was founding chairman, continues to teach the world about the consequences of genocide.
Teaching and study were central to Elie Wiesel’s life’s work. For forty years, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he was named University Professor. He was a recipient of numerous honorary degrees and other awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor among them.
Oprah Winfrey, who said Night should be “required reading for all humanity,” chose it as a selection of her book club in 2006. Forty-five years after publication, Night rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
—Elie Wiesel died on July 2, 2016.
Genre: Non-fiction | Biographies & Memoirs
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