A Memorial Edition of Elie Wiesel\'s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a Memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him the conscience of the world.
These remarks powerfully resonate with Night and with subsequent acts of genocide..
In addition to tributes from President Obama and Samantha Powers, this Memorial Edition of Night includes the unpublished text of a speech that Wiesel delivered before the United Nations General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, entitled Will the World Ever Know.
Far more than a chronicle of the sadistic realm of the camps, Night also addresses many of the philosophical and personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of the Holocaust.
These words are etched into the wall of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. . .
Never shall I forget .
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night, writes Wiesel.
Night is the shattering record of his memories of the death of his mother, father, and little sister, Tsipora; the death of his own innocence; and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald.
It is written in simple, understated language, yet it is emotionally devastating, never to be forgotten.
Night , which has sold millions of copies around the world , is the very embodiment of that conviction.
In time he realized that his life could have purpose: that he was to be a witness, the one who would pass on the account of what had happened so that the dead would not have died in vain and so the living could learn.
In 1986, when Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote, Elie Wiesel was rescued from the ashes of Auschwitz after storm and fire had ravaged his life.
Like millions of admirers, I first came to know Elie through his account of the horror he endured during the Holocaust simply because he was Jewish, wrote the president.
The whole of the president\'s eloquent tribute serves as a foreword to this Memorial Edition of Night .
A Memorial Edition of Elie Wiesel\'s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a Memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him the conscience of the world
