Night

Elie Wiesel’s short, devastating memoir recounts his deportation as a teenager to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and the loss of his family, his childhood, and much of his faith. Written in spare, unflinching prose, it refuses easy comfort or explanation. Night has become one of the essential accounts of the Holocaust, read as both personal testimony and a warning, and Wiesel spent the rest of his life insisting that the world remember.