Wiesel spent two years in the Nazi-run concentration camps as the Allied and Russian forces slowly closed in on Berlin and began to liberate prisoners. Although the book is relatively short, it’s one of the most valuable first-hand documentation of the horrors of the Holocaust and the condit...
He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.Along with writing, he was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel ...