Night (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Night 11 days ago.

• Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Weisel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in the substantive new preface, Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Night Tuesday, November 10 2009.

• They called him MoisheMatch each of the words below with its definition based on the context in which the word appears in the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.book.

Timothy Gray approved Amanda’s request to combine 84 books, including Night, Tuesday, November 10 2009.

Amanda submitted a request to combine 84 books, including Night, Tuesday, November 10 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Night Monday, November 2 2009.

• Added a contributor: Elie Wiesel: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Night Monday, November 2 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Elie Wiesel: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Night Monday, November 2 2009.

• Added a contributor: Elie Wiesel: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Night Monday, November 2 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Elie Wiesel: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray edited the first sentence of Night Monday, November 2 2009.

• THEY CALLED HIMThey called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

Shelfari edited the summary of Night Sunday, October 4 2009.

• This book is not for the faint of heart. I almost cried. This story takes place during the Holocaust (1930s- 1940s). Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, retells the tales of a boy who lost all faith, hope, and childhood.

  Hitler blamed the jews for losing the war. He calls jews "inferior"."inferior". So, he sends them to ghetto's, places that are enclosed and run by jews. They are not allowed to leave. unfortunately, Elie Wiesel from Sighet was a jew, so he was forced into a ghetto. Some people said it was not that bad. They said "It's"It's a place where we can live among brothers."brothers." They were completely unaware of the impending danger that would ravage the jewish population forever, leaving a mark on history.

  They were liquidated from the ghetto, to be sent to death camps, where they would work in harsh conditions with almost no food. Most of them would be burned to a cinder in the creamatorium. The transportation was insane. They were put in to cattle cars, 80 people to a car! They did not eat for 2 days. They could barely breathe. When they finally arrived, they saw the smoke of their ancestors endlessly raising higher and higher into the sky.

  If you want to know more, than you will have to get the book and read it.