Night is an autobiographical novel by Elie Wiesel. During the holocaust he was a fourteen-year old Jewish child that was put into Auschwitz (a Nazi concentration camp).
             Wiesel is one of the most well known authors and survivors of the Holocaust. Wiesel decided to write this novel because he felt that he had owed something to the dead, "I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead, and anyone who does not remember betrays them again." (Elie Wiesel). Night is a fantastic novel, which really opens the hearts of the reader to the true horrors of the holocaust. (www.sparknotes.com)
             Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928. He grew up in a small village in Romania, and lived like any other Jewish child. He had two older sisters and a younger sister named Tzipora. His life mainly revolved around his family, religious studies and God. All of this however, was put to a sudden stop in 1944 when he and the rest of his Jewish community were deported to various concentration camps. (www.sparknotes.com)
             Elie and his father were taken to Auschwitz, where they were separated in the first selection from Elie's mother and younger sister Tzipora. Elie, who was fifteen at the time, never saw them again. Wiesel survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz. He managed to remain with his father the entire time until his father's death from dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion at Buchenwald. Finally, in April 1945, the United States Third Army liberated Elie and the other surviving Jews from Buchenwald. (www.sparknotes.com)
             After the liberation, Elie learned that his mother and younger sister had died in the gas chambers, but that his two older sisters had survived. Elie lived in a French orphanage for a few years and in 1948 began to study literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. He supported himself as a choirm...