Wiesel's novel represents a different perspective of the Jewish Holocaust than the popular and well-known story told in The Diary of Anne Frank. While readers learn of the Frank family and their continuous struggle to remain hidden from Nazi deportation and death, Wiesel's memoir reveals the horror of life and the reality of death behind the iron gates and barbed wire of several concentration camps. For many years after the war, Holocaust survivors were reluctant to relive their experiences through interviews or in literature. Therefore, many admire Wiesel's courage in being one of the first survivors to expose his nightmarish experiences. However, the literary style in which Night is told vaults Wiesel's work from documentary to literature. As Bantam Books, the English-language publisher of Night, notes, Night is a "shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again."
Biography - Elie Wiesel
Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Romania, a center of Jewish culture in the Transylvania region. Growing up, his parents encouraged Wiesel's intense study of Jewish theology. In the spring of 1944, when Wiesel was almost fifteen years old, his life changed forever when Nazi forces moved into Sighet and soon deported all Jews, including the Wiesel family.
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