Night (memoir)
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Night is a 1956 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World Wa
Cover of the first edition
Sighet, Transylvania, now Sighetu Marmației, Romania, 2009
Elie Wiesel, c. 1943, aged 15
Wiesel's father, Chlomo
Auschwitz concentration camp
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Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Aus
Night (memoir)
…And the World Remained Silent') is a 1956 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. It remains unclear how much of Night is memoir. Wiesel called it his…
Auschwitz I b
Auschwitz
Auschwitz I, 2013 (50°01′39″N 19°12′18″E / 50.0275°N 19.2050°E / 50.0275; 19.2050 (Auschwitz I))
Auschwitz I, 2009; the prisoner reception center of Auschwitz I became the visitor reception center of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.