Night: Memorial Edition (Hardcover)

Night: Memorial Edition By Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translated by), Barack Obama (Contributions by), Samantha Power (Foreword by), Elisha Wiesel (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translated by), Barack Obama (Contributions by), Samantha Power (Foreword by), Elisha Wiesel (Afterword by)
List Price: $25.00
Our Price: $21.25
(Save: $3.75 15%)
Warehouse, In Stock | Usually Ships in 1-5 Days | New

Description


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.” The whole of the president’s eloquent tribute serves as a foreword to this memorial edition of Night. “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.

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. 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.” Night, which has sold millions of copies around the world, is the very embodiment of that conviction. It is written in simple, understated language, yet it is emotionally devastating, never to be forgotten.

Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. 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.

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night,” writes Wiesel. “Never shall I forget . . . even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.” These words are etched into the wall of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. 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.

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.” These remarks powerfully resonate with Night and with subsequent acts of genocide.

About the Author


Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) is the author of more than fifty books, including Night, his harrowing account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book, first published in 1955, was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 2006, and continues to be an important reminder of man's capacity for inhumanity. Wiesel was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and lived with his family in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

BARACK OBAMA is the 44th President of the United States. He is the author of the books Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

Samantha Power is a Professor of Practice in Public Policy at Harvard University, and the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002).

Praise For…


"Night is a slender book...But it packs a whole world--perhaps better, a whole inferno--into that brief span...A classic work of literature from that darkest of eras...it deserves to be read and reread for decades to come." --Kirkus (starred review)


Product Details
ISBN: 9780374221997
ISBN-10: 0374221995
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Publication Date: September 12th, 2017
Pages: 176
Language: English