Book+Review---Night

= = = = = = = = = = = = =// Night // by Elie Wiesel is a terrifying memoir of the author’s experiences as a teenage Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps, and it is considered by many critics to be the most influential piece of Holocaust literature. In his story, Wiesel does not sugarcoat anything, and he describes horrible past events that many people would prefer to forget. = = = = = = Elie Wiesel grew up in the town of Sighet in Transylvania (Romania). The only son of shopkeeper parents, at the age of 15 he was taken to Auschwitz where he was parted forever from his mother and younger sister. After Auschwitz, Wiesel and his father were taken to Buna and then to Buchenwald, where his father died. His short autobiographical account //Night//, published in 1960, was one of the first books to focus global attention on the question of how and why the Holocaust, a terrible genocide that Elie experienced firsthand, was allowed to happen. =