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Night by Elie Wiesel
The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a book which deals with the happenings of the Holocaust and of the Nazi death camps. It also deals with the death of a boy's family and his pain. The boy's name is Eliezer Wiesel and he goes through the painful times of the Holocaust, where he seems to loose his faith in God and his hope.
This book was written by Elie Wiesel, a writer of such novels as Night, Dawn, The Testament, and The Fifth Son. He was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. Sighet, his home town, was unaffected by WWII until 1944, when he and his fellow Jews were deported. His father, mother, and younger sister all died in the war, but his two older sisters did not.
The main character, Eliezer, is a devoted Jew who wants to study Jewish mysticism. His father does not...
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