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    Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel
    Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel
    Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel
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    Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel

    Written by Elie Wiesel

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    About this audiobook

    An enduring classic of Holocaust literature, Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. 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. Narrator George Guidall intensifies the emotional impact as blind hope turns to utter horror. His performance captures the profound agony of young Eliezer as he witnesses the suffering and death of his family and loses all that he holds sacred.

    Editor's Note

    A masterpiece…

    Elie Wiesel’s account of the Holocaust and his experience in Auschwitz and Buchenwald remains one of the most important books in World War II literature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 16, 2006
    ISBN9781440780486
    Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel
    Author

    Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration camps, where his parents and younger sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist. In 1958, he published his first book, La Nuit, a memoir of his experiences in the concentration camps. He has since authored nearly thirty books, some of which use these events as their basic material. In his many lectures, Wiesel has concerned himself with the situation of the Jews and other groups who have suffered persecution and death because of their religion, race or national origin. He has been outspoken on the plight of Soviet Jewry, on Ethiopian Jewry and on behalf of the State of Israel today. Wiesel made his home in New York City, and became a United States citizen. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University, a Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City College of New York, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University where he taught 'Literature of Memory.' Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 1980 - 1986, Wiesel served on numerous boards of trustees and advisors. He died in 2016.

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    • 5/5
      This book is a great book to read if you're interested in things about the holocaust. Eli tells his story about what happened to him living through the holocaust so factually that it kept me interested to the end. I strongly recommend this book

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This left me unable to breathe, chapter after chapter. It's taken me years to be brave enough to read this. Deeply moved.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What a sad sad life, every chapter was just sad, shame

      Don't miss out on this!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It wasn't censored and was real! I loved it, it is a must read!

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    • 5/5
      I am grateful to be able to hear the Testimony of Mr Wiesel, as translated by his wife, together with the Nobel acceptance speech, afterword and and thougths from the publisher. Reading is bit to fast, and more poignant when played at 0.8.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Harrowing and vitally important reading. To forget the dead is to kill them a second time. This book...it does not bear description. It must be read. It must be understood. It must be our teacher.

      We cannot allow our own placidity to murder us. We cannot be silent when inequity and evil rears its head. Fascism rising to power will always end in Night for innocents. Honor the dead by remembering them, hearing their stories, mourning them, and by clutching your babies close in love and teaching them that this must never happen again.
    • 4/5
      In 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family are rounded up and shipped off to a German concentration camp. The author recounts the tale of his own survival. Although the book is not written in the present tense, there is an immediacy to the language that makes it feel as though it is. Things happen quickly, with little time spent reflecting on them. Perhaps this explains the detached quality of the narration, a quality that makes the horror described manageable. This memoir deals with themes of losing faith and of man’s great and yet banal capacity for evil. The author also examines the idea that deception and illusion are necessary defenses against despair. Young Elie is not only in conflict with the Nazis who imprison and torture him. He also struggles with balancing his instinct for self-preservation against his desire to be noble and ethical. This book ends with a rather bleak outlook for humankind's future. The later books in this trilogy balance that despair out, so perhaps the books should be recommended in conjunction with one another.
    • 4/5
      Another great story from Mr. Wiesel. He is such a great writer, his stories really open people's eyes to what the Holocaust was on a very personal level.
    • 4/5
      “One person – a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, a Martin Luther Kind Jr. – one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”Each time I read an account of the Holocaust, I read something different. My son is of a similar age to Elie and I have to wonder how he would have survived. I have a better appreciation of how, when the circumstances are hellish, the minds of men change, they become empty, animalistic and are willing to betray those they never would have betrayed. Lack of freedom of the mind: the worst hell of all.
    • 5/5
      I have read this many, many times. Each time, I am newly astonished by the simple power of this slim volume. It may be the finest book every written on the Holocaust because it distills the complexities of a mind-wrenching event down to its most basic element – the personal pain of one human being. Stunning.
    • 4/5
      Finished this book yesterday, Feb. 22. Wow. I must admit to being shocked to find out people did not know, or if they did thought it was untrue what was happening to the Jews. especially in 1944/1945!!

      We (Netherlands were in occupation since 1940)
      Very small book but lots of power. I can so understand this boy.
    • 5/5
      Thia is one of the few books it has taken me over a week to read. Wiesel's account is one of many accounts written by those who experienced the genoicide against the Jews and Gypsies of Europe during WWII. It forces the reader to pay attention to the fact that such atrocities have not ceased to exist and in fact are occurring right under our noses. In Rwanda, tne Sudan, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq (under Saddam aboriginal Kurds were massacered). Many of the victims of these modern genoicides will never be able to bear witness to the atrocities they suffered. They come from countries with high rates of illiteracy, and poverty and unlike the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust few have left hard copy documentation of what happened to them. I think that everyone should have to read this book.
    • 4/5
      This is a deeply moving narrative from a survivor of Hitler's extermination camps. There have been several of these types of books released in the past few years, but I believe this is one of the better ones. Told in first person, we are exposed to how it really felt to be in one of these camps - how it dehumanised people and caused good, loving people to behave like animals. This book should be required reading in all high schools.
    • 5/5
      I read this book for school, and I was surprised so find myself liking it. This really isn't my type of book, I usually read fiction, but I found his story amazing.Hearing about the holocaust from a survivor really opened my eyes at how horrible it really was. It's hard to believe he actually lived through it and experienced all these things.For me, this book was better then having gone through 2 classes about the holocaust. Hearing it from someone who actually lived it was amazing and horrifying. It made it real to me.I recommend this book to everyone. Everyone needs to read this book and learn from the holocaust. We can't let this happen again. It is a heavy read, but you owe it to everyone who died in the holocaust. READ THIS BOOK!
    • 5/5
      Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about a teenager who is sent to a German concentration camp for Jews. This camp is filled with thousands of other Jewish prisoners. The book tells of how he lives through the Holocaust but losses his family and the brutality they experienced at the camps it also has a lot of information about World War Two and what happened at the concentration camps.I would not recommend Night to many people I know the book is extremely serious and is sometimes hard to follow you often have to stop and think for a while to realize the effect of what you read has on you. The book is also extremely sad because it tells what really happed and the pain the prisoners felt another reason I would not recommend it is somewhat depressing. by Kyle Steiger
    • 4/5
      What does one say about Elie Wiesel's memoir of the Holocaust? To me, the most disturbing things about this book were his matter-of-fact narrative and the final words of the book: "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."
    • 4/5
      It took me two tries to get going in this book because I was listening to it on an audio book and the narrator was not the best.Once I did, I was mesmerized. There's probably not much that hasn't already been said about this story of the author's experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, so I'll just say that it's worth reading. The nightmare of the life, the slow loss of humanity, the brief moments of hope had me riveted in anger and horror.The book is told in the first person and, though Mr. Rosenblatt is a bit awkward and wooden in his reading style, having the story "told to you" by listening made it seem even more real that reading the words.
    • 4/5
      Was a good story told
      Very well I enjoyed the journey no matter how harrowing the subject matter
    • 5/5
      Just thinking of people in the modern age, who might have endured suffering, pain and agony and understandably may have been terrible, unspeakable, unthinkable, yet who still have had the opportunity to read this book, have a computer with internet connection and then type up and post a review of it…yet can still critique writing style and include a dismissiveness based on that?That leaves me speechless but reaffirms my observation that many of those who have not really suffered the unimaginable, yet have such access, continue to be the ones to negatively or poorly rate a work of personal, agonizing minimalism which contains such profound revelations and truth.I stopped to reread “Night” this week, and it places in great perspective whatever mundane pain, thought or complaint I might have in life right now, in general. Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t negate anyone’s current situation, but it does give you a wider range in which to observe your own life.I am a student of WW2 and Holocaust literature and history. I am also a person who was born and spent much time in Germany interacting with and interviewing those who remember firsthand, or those who were 1st gen survivors or ones who directly remember on a variety factors: NOT just because their parents might have been involved, but those who survived and endured the “survivors guilt” that maybe they shouldn’t have.One of the things I’ve noted is that, because the events have replayed to the level of infinity in their minds, sometimes when they recount, it does sometimes come across as bloodless, or too cool. This is part of the psychological mechanisms of the brain which enact to protect that person. Sometimes the level of self-absorption and intentness of having some kind of entertainment from works of horrific history, or a desire to learn of ugly history but not really wishing to “know” of it, actually horrifies me.Originally posted on my review site Flying With Red Haircrow.
    • 5/5
      There is nothing I can add to the infinite number of positive reviews for this book. Taking it in and never letting the truth be forgotten is the least we can do.
    • 5/5
      This book is so powerful, so important. The horrors of the past and the capacity for human evil can not be forgotten.
    • 5/5
      I read this book in high school as an ESL student the words in the page stuck in my memory this was the first book that made me feel something. Today as I re-read it the words have stuck in my heart
    • 5/5
      Horrible story beautifully written. I cried real tears. Very difficult to listen to but so glad I did.
    • 4/5
      Ojalá puedan traducirlo al español, pero es una excelente pieza y testimonio de la historia!!!
    • 5/5
      A traumatic and deeply moving account of the author’s experience of Nazi concentration camps. A very important story.
    • 5/5
      I originally picked this up because my son was assigned to read it in high school. He was really interested in it since his grandpa is from Germany and escaped to America by sheer luck on one of the last ships that allowed jews to leave. This is a heartbreaking story, but one that has to be told. Everyone should read this story at least once. This book was so great that I read his other books which were just as good. I can't say enough good things about this book.
    • 5/5
      A terrifying first-person account of the horrors of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a 14 year old boy in 1944 when his family was taken from Sighet, Transylvania, to the Auschwitz concentration camp. A short, terryfying read about an experience that left the author questioning God.
    • 5/5
      For those who've not heard of it, this book is the author's memoir of his time at Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps during World War II. His entire family was killed there and throughout the book his sense of survivor's guilt is palpable and heartbreaking.Having learned about the Holocaust pretty much every year in school from age 10 to 18, I realized it was surprising and strange that I had never read this before. I picked it up knowing full well what happens, where they were going, how it would end. It's not the plot you read this book for, it's to privately allow yourself to mourn and remember those who were killed. It's to join your soul to Wiesel's in order to more fully understand his reminisces. His writing evokes so much emotion that it would be hard for any reader not to be moved.I do not want to "recommend" this book, but I do think that it should be read by everyone to understand the atrocities man is capable of and to reflect on the history that has brought us to this place and time.
    • 5/5
      Along with The Reader, this is the best book I've ever read. While going through it, the way Elie describes everything didn't leave a moment for me to think, the images immediately sprung into my head. Grusome though they were, it was very eye opening and just an extremely amazing experience getting to read this book.
    • 5/5
      After having been exposed to Holocaust documentaries and movies over the years, I didn't think I would get as much out of reading "Night" as I did. It's a great book. The writing is brutally honest about not only the atrocities of the Nazis but also the crises of faith and moments of personal weakness in their victims. It's done with a terse, conversational style that reads almost as if you were engaged in dialog with Wiesel, but on the other hand it is at times quite profound ("I was the accuser, God the accused...") and poetic ("Never shall I forget that night...."). Wiesel does not shy away from his own feelings of shame, shame forever, at how he felt towards his father, and for not answering his last words, which were calls to his son. He relays other horrifying stories of a son killing his father for bread, a Rabbi's son distancing himself from his father intentionally during a forced run during an evacuation, and Jews trampling and suffocating one another. There are poignant moments throughout, such as the last time he saw his mother and little sister, and how quickly the slipped out of his life forever.Wiesel also does not shy away from his feelings towards God at the time, e.g. "Where is God? .... This is where - hanging from this gallows." Or, the Jews as having transcended everything "death, fatigue, our natural needs....we were the only men on earth." One of the dying states "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." These types of thoughts are things that I did not anticipate and were fascinating to me.The introductory chapter in this edition included passages from the original Yiddish that I think should have survived editing, as well as an appendix that includes Wiesel's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. There is no way anyone can truly understand what it was like to have been in a Concentration camp but this book provides insight into it in a very honest, humble way. It more than accomplishes its goal of "bearing witness"; it is a moving, stirring book.