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"Night" by Elie Wiesel Length: 4 hours and 20 min. ISBN: 1-4193-9069-4 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler’s horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel’s wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.

Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author’s own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany’s death camps. Told through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet unfolds with a heart-wrenching inevitability. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp’s “reception center” does the terrible truth sink in.

Recounting the evils at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel’s enduring classic of Holocaust literature raises questions of continuing significance for all future generations: How could man commit these horrors, and could such an evil ever be repeated?

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