11/9/2023 0 Comments Night book cover wiesel![]() And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. ![]() This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. Offering much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Night also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece-a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a youth in the Nazi death camps. He does not want his past to become their future." For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. " He writes: "The witness has forced himself to testify. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges. But he feels an urgent responsibility to testify, having been a witness to inexpressible human depravity, to speak of "this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant. Elie Wiesels Night Trilogy with Night signed by the author on the signature page. ![]() Because of her relationship with God, Corrie ten Boom's story is one of overcoming, healing, and restoration without a saving relationship with Christ, Elie Wiesel can make no sense of the suffering he saw and experienced, or of his survival. Eliezer survives, an empty shell of a man until April 11, 1945, the day that the American army liberates the camp. In Buchenwald, however, Eliezer’s father dies of dysentery and physical abuse. However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival." Elie Wiesel's perspective on his life and experience of the Holocaust is strikingly different from the one that another Holocaust survivor, Corrie ten Boom, has on her life and experience. Throughout the ordeal, Eliezer and his father help each other to survive by means of mutual support and concern. If heaven could or would perform a miracle for me, why not for others more deserving than myself? It was nothing more than chance. Wiesels account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. I don't know how I survived I was weak, rather shy I did nothing to save myself. Avon Books, 1969 - Authors, French - 127 pages. "There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text.
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