ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born on September 30, 1928 in Romania to mother, Sarah Feig and father, Shlomo Wiesel, Elie is best known for surviving the Holocaust alongside his two older sisters while his mother, father, and younger sister did not.
Once the war was over, Elie moved to France where he eventually found work as a Journalist as well as teaching Hebrew. In 1955, he moved to New York as the Foreign Correspondent for an Israeli newspaper and in 1969, he married Marion Erster Rose and together, the couple have one son, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel who named after his father.
To date, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1968), Elie Wiesel has written around 57 books, including Night. He was also a professor of Humanities at Boston University. On the morning of July 2, 2016, Elie Wiesel died at the age of 87.
SYNOPSIS
Firs published in English in 1960, Night chronologies Ellie Wiesel’s journey from Sighet in 1941, to Auschwitz and then finally Buchenwald between 1944 and 1945. In vivid and colorful detail, Elie tells his story of what it was like going from being a normal teenage boy to “living” in the poorest of conditions ever created by man and coming out the other side.
MY REVIEW
I first heard about Elie Wiesel while sitting in my living room, watching him walk around Auschwitz with Oprah (back when her show was still on the air) and I was just blown away by the sheer strength it must have taken him to not only talk about his experiences, but also walk around the grounds….I get chills just thinking about it.
Fast forward a few years later where I am browsing through books at my favorite used book store and what do I see? You got it! Night by Elie Wiesel. I was so enthralled with this book that I read it in one sitting. It was just that good.
Elie’s descriptive and detailed storytelling takes you back to the mid 1940’s during the very height of the Holocaust. When reading this book, you feel for him and by the end of the book, you’re celebrating with him the end of the war.
A truly remarkable read.
My rating: 10/10
