Elie Wiesel

1. He imigrated to the United States in 1956 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1963. Elie Wiesel • Born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania to Shlomo Wiesel, a grocer, and Sarah Feig Wiesel. • In 1969 wiesel married Marion Erster Rose, A Holocaust survivor who would become the major translator of his works to English.

2. Originally published as a 900 page Yiddish volume in 1955, then translated to French in 1958, and finally it became a English version in 1960. Night Background • Night was his first novel but also his best known book.

3. “Through the large white spaces Wiesel inserts in the text, the reader recognizes that what he leaves out says just as much as what he put in.”(Maas) Night Criticism • “This is the first volume of a trilogy, Night is a masterpiece. It also offers a painful experience as a young boy.” (Taylor) • “The scholar Irving Halperin considers Night to be a tale about one boy's loss of innocence and faith in god” (Maas)

4. “Wiesel, who decades later would win the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp which has turned my life into one long night.”(Maas) Conclusion • The autobiographical novel Night stands alongside Anne Frank's Diary Of A Young Girl as an example of the horrors of the Holocaust