Night by Elie Wiesel - Audio Book CD
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Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply
poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teen in the
Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s spouse and
frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the code and
spirit truest to the author’s authentic aim. And in a substantive fresh
preface, Elie reflects found on the enduring value of Night and his
lifelong, passionate dedication to guaranteeing that the planet not forgets
man’s capability for inhumanity to guy.
Night provides more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday
perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it equally
eloquently addresses most philosophical and also individual
issues implicit in any severe consideration of what the Holocaust was,
just what it meant, and what its legacy is and is.
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teen when
he and his family were taken from their house in 1944 to the Auschwitz
focus camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying
record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of
his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting
the absolute evil of guy. This brand-new translation by his spouse and many
frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects significant details and
presents the many exact rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony
to what occurred in the camps and of his memorable content that this
horror should not be permitted to result again. This edition furthermore contains a
fresh preface by the writer.
About the Author Elie Wiesel
Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly recognised as Elie Wiesel, born September 30,
1928)is a Romania-born American-Jewish novelist, political activist, Nobel
Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the writer of over 40 books, the
ideal acknowledged of that is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences
during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in many focus camps.
Wiesel was granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel
Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," noting that through his
battle to come to terms with "his own individual experience of total
humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death
camps," and also his "practical function in the cause of peace," Wiesel has
delivered a effective content "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to
humanity
On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London,
England in recognition of his function toward raising Holocaust knowledge in
the United Kingdom.
Contents
Early existence and experiences during the Holocaust
Wiesel was born in Sighet (today Sighetu Marmaţiei), Maramureş, Kingdom of
Romania, to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Sarah was the daughter of Dodye Feig,
a Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Elie Wiesel had 3 sisters:
Hilda and Bea, who were elder than he, and Tzipora, who was the youngest
in the family. Shlomo was an Orthodox Jew of Hungarian lineage, along with a
shopkeeper who ran his own grocery shop. He was active and reliable within
the community, and had invested a limited months in jail for having assisted Polish
Jews who escaped to Hungary in the early years of the war. It was Shlomo
who instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to
discover Modern Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mom encouraged
him to research Torah and Kabbalah. Wiesel has mentioned his dad represented
reason, and his mom, belief (Fine 1982:4).
The town of Sighet was annexed to Hungary in 1940. Next Elie, his family
and the rest of the town were placed in among the 2 ghettos in Sighet.
Elie and his family lived in the greater of the 2, on Serpent Street. On
April 19, 1944, the Hungarian authorities deported the Jewish community in
Sighet to Auschwitz–Birkenau. While at Auschwitz the amount A-7713 was
tattooed into his left arm, and became an avid smoker. Wiesel was
separated from his mom and sister Tzipora, that are presumed to have
been murdered at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his dad were transmitted to the
connected function camp Buna-Werke, a subcamp of Auschwitz III Monowitz. He
managed to stay with his dad for a year as they were forced to function
under appalling conditions and shuffled between focus camps in the
closing days of the war. On January 28, 1945, only a limited weeks after the
2 were marched to Buchenwald and just months before the camp was
liberated by the American Third Army on April 11, Wiesel's dad suffered
from dysentery, starvation, and fatigue, and was later transmitted to the
crematory. The last word his dad talked was “Eliezer”, Elie's name.
After the war
After the war, Wiesel was placed in a French orphanage, where he learned
the French code and was reunited with both his elder sisters, Hilda
and Bea, who had additionally survived the war. In 1948, Wiesel started studying
strategy at the Sorbonne. During this time, Wiesel became associated with
Irgun, a Zionist armed company in Palestine, and translated for its
newspaper.
He taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a
specialist journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French magazines,
including Tsien in Kamf (in Yiddish) and the French Jewish Magazine,
L'arche. But, for 10 years after the war, Wiesel refused to write
about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. Like countless
survivors, Wiesel couldn't discover the words to describe his experiences.
But, a meeting with François Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in
Literature, who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to
write about his Holocaust experiences.
Wiesel initially wrote the 900-page tome Un di velt hot geshvign (And the
World Remained Silent), in Yiddish, which was published in abridged shape
in Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened adaptation of the manuscript in
French, and it was published as the 127-page novel La Nuit, and later
translated into English as Night. Even with Mauriac's help, Wiesel had
trouble acquiring a publisher for his book, and initially it sold improperly.
Life in the United States
In 1955, Wiesel moved to Manhattan, New York, having become a U.S.
citizen: due to injuries suffered in a traffic accident, he was forced to
remain in New York past his visa's expiry and was available citizenship to
solve his status. In the U.S., Wiesel wrote over 40 books, both fiction
and non-fiction, and won several literary prizes. Wiesel's writing is
considered among the most crucial functions in Holocaust literature. Some
historians credit Wiesel with providing the expression 'Holocaust' its present
meaning, but he refuses to feel that the term adequately describes the event
and desires it were selected less frequently to describe extensive
occurrences as everyday tragedies
He was granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for talking out against
violence, repression, and racism. He has received other prizes and
honors for his function, including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985 and
was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. Wiesel
has published 2 volumes of his memoirs. The initially, All Rivers Run to the
Sea, was published in 1994 and covered his existence as much as the year 1969 while
the 2nd, titled And the Sea is Never Full, and published in 1999,
covered the years from 1969 to 1999.
Wiesel and his spouse, Marion, began the Elie Wiesel Foundation for
Humanity. He served as chairman for the Presidential Commission found on the
Holocaust (later renamed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council) from 1978 to
1986, spearheading the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, DC.
Wiesel is very keen on training and holds the position of Andrew
Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. From 1972 to
1976, Wiesel was a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New
York and member of the American Federation of Teachers. In 1982 he served
as the initially Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought
at Yale University. He furthermore co-instructs Winter Term (January) guides at
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1997 to 1999 he was Ingeborg
Rennert Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Barnard College of
Columbia University.
Wiesel has become a prevalent speaker about the Holocaust. As a
political activist, he has advocated for various causes, including Israel,
the plight of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the victims of apartheid in South
Africa, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Bosnian victims of genocide in the
previous Yugoslavia, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, and the Kurds. He newly
voiced help for intervention in Darfur, Sudan. He moreover led a commission
organized by the Romanian government to analysis and write a report,
introduced in 2004, found on the true history of the Holocaust in Romania and the
participation of the Romanian wartime regime in atrocities against Jews and
additional groups, including the Roma. The Romanian government accepted the
results in the report and committed to implementing the commission's
recommendations for educating the public found on the history of the Holocaust
in Romania. The commission, formally called the International Commission
for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, came to be called the Wiesel
Commission in Elie Wiesel's honor and due to his leadership.
Wiesel is the honorary seat of the Habonim Dror Camp Miriam Campership
and Building Fund, along with a member of the International Council of the New
York-based Human Rights Foundation.
On March 27, 2001, Wiesel appeared at the University of Florida for Jewish
Awareness Month and was presented with an honorary doctor of humane
letters degree within the University of Florida by Dr. Charles Young.
In 2002, he inaugurated the Elie Wiesel Memorial Home in Sighet in his
childhood house.
In early 2006, Wiesel traveled to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey, a see
which was broadcast as piece of The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 24,
2006.Wiesel mentioned that this would probably be his last trip there.
In September 2006, he appeared before the UN Security Council with actor
George Clooney to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
On April 25, 2007, Wiesel was granted an honorary doctorate of humane
letters degree within the University of Vermont.
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