Night
Night free PDF book download from here. “Night” is a powerful memoir by Elie Wiesel, first published in 1960. It provides a harrowing account of his experiences alongside his father in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. The book paints a grim picture of his loss of faith and growing disillusionment with humanity as he narrates his journey from the ghettos in Sighet, Romania, to various concentration camps.
The narrative sees a reversal of the typical parent-child dynamic as his father becomes dependent and Wiesel, then a teenager, assumes the role of his caretaker. His father passed away in January 1945, and the memoir concludes shortly after the liberation of Buchenwald by the United States Army in April 1945. The book is widely regarded as a seminal work in Holocaust literature.
About the Author
Was fifteen when his family was deported from Sighet to Auschwitz. His mother and youngest sister were killed on arrival. His father died at Buchenwald weeks before liberation. He kept silent about it for ten years, then wrote an eight-hundred-page account in Yiddish, which was…
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